Yolanda’s Bakery

all my morning the start in this place. you cater very well all the food is tasty love this place… las pupusas is the best

Excellent breakfast burrito! It’s probably a good thing I don’t live nearby anymore; otherwise I would be having a breakfast burrito more often from here. This place is a must try!

A coworker came in with these super soft bread rolls! Extremely fresh and warm! Been hooked ever since. Had to eat almost half of them because they are made preservative free! Awesome food! Thanks Ana G.

My husband found this spot recently and we’ve been there twice since. This place has a variety of food but I definitely question the freshness of their food. This is supposed to be a fast food place, so their food is displayed cafeteria style where you pick what you want. Flavor is good, no complaints there but some of the food looked like it’d been sitting out for too long. I’m accustomed to pupusas being made fresh at other restaurants and having to wait, but this place has them already made. I guess its a new concept for me. Still good though. The curtido that accompanies the pupusas was flavorful but their salsa lacked a little flavor.
The bakery is what really I loved about this place. They have a variety of typical Salvadoran sweet bread such as semita, peperechas, budin and many others. They also have other latino favorites such as conchas and quesadillas (no, not the tortilla and cheese kind). This is also my new favorite place for bolillos. They are soft and fresh and at 5 for a buck, it’s a steal!

Tres leches cake was worth it. Their food looked and smelled great but I didn’t have time to dine, I had come to pick up a cake for a cousins birthday. Family run I assume and the lady was courteous and quick to help. It’s also looks like where the locals go so that’s cool too.

I have been patronizing this location, since it is only 75 steps away from my house, for several years. I have also been to their other locations. They do make some awesome pastries that are Mexican and Salvadorian.
The price is awesome and the quality of the sweet breads are better than some of the other local Mexican bakeries.
I love to go here during the colder weather season too. They have some awesome Champurado, Atole and Mexican style hot chocolate. Those go very well with a nice sweet bread.
The location is generally clean and filled with the aroma of baking bread as well as the other foods they prepare.
I also enjoy eating the pupusas from here. They are authentic, delicious and fit anyones budget.

Dirty kitchen… Along with my husband, I have been coming here for the past 3 years however, 3 weeks ago, my husband stopped by (alone) for lunch: bad idea!!! As he was finishing his beef in sauce, he noticed there was a small dead ROACH floating in his plate! Yuck! I’ve never been so happy for not going to lunch with him. Of course he didn’t make a scene just got up and took his plate to the lady who served him and told her he doesn’t expect for her to charge him. I know food is good but this place is NOT safe. Never again!!! FYI, it’s been 3 weeks that my husband hasn’t eaten out. Now I have to cook at home 7 days a week because that’s the only way he can have peace of mind :(all thanks to Yolanda’s nasty and dirty kitchen.
For your own good. Don’t go here!!! you never know what they’ll serve you… You might get sick.

I came here one day for lunch after hearing that these people also run La Paz Bakery in Canoga Park. I figured since La Paz is great, Yolanda’s should be a chip off the old block. Indeed it was! I had a pupusa, and a burrito de carne asada with rice and beans and an old fashioned Mexican Coke. The burrito was massive, enough to keep you full for the day and was very cheap. I would definitely recommend Yolanda’s to anyone who’s hungry and itching for some Central American cuisine.

Let’s begin with the basics. The way I see it, this is a Salvadoran restaurant therefore the quality of tacos will be about mediocre.
Now onto the actual review :
The pupusas here are ok, but you can definitely get it elsewhere (actually about 5 mnutes away) and of better quality.
The rest of your food options can definitely be delicious and fresh… depending on the time you arrive. You’ve got to eat their food in like those peak hours where it will definitely be fresh. (I’m suggesting around 8 a.m. and 12 p.m.)
One thing that never really disappoints is the pan dulce (or in English «sweet bread»). It doesn’t matter what time of day or how the weather is; one can indulge into a sweet treat with a refreshment of choice for a decent price. So here I raise my horchata and say: give this place a try.

Very good food for lunch… pupusas, not so good

This bakery has nothing but deliciousness as well as pupusas and other hot food. A real hidden gem. Great prices.

«Wait a minute, let me grab my knife»
Pulling up to the parking lot at night here can be scary. When I see the tab of a knife in someones pocket, I pay attention. So I do the same in the hopes I get left alone.
I had to stop and try the pupusas. After passing all the «locals», we ordered 2 cheese and 2 pork pupusas. They come with a big helping of the salsa sauce and pickled veggies. The veggies and the pork pupusas were good but the cheese pupusas were way too greasy and bland.
Since this is a pupuseria and panaderia you gotta check out all the latin baked goods. I recommend the bread pudding, it was quite tasty. Everything was cheap, 4 pupusas and a bread pudding was under $ 10.

My 4 stars is based solely on the papusas. Well mostly on them.
First the bad:
The tacos I had gotten are mediocre at best. The tamalaes were ok.
Now for the good:
The chunks of beef soaking in liquid in the hot case. I am a sucker for stew like dishes. I ordered a medium and they put chunk upon chunk of meat in t o a Styrofoam drink cup. That meat was so food.
The papusas!!! I have never had them made fresh. They always come out of the hot case. Either way they are delicious. Full of frijoles, queso, and pork. The tomato sauce is sweet and offsets the tartness of the marinated cabbage which go atop my papusas.
I also drool over the piles stacks and rows of baked goods but have yet to try any of them. Soon my friends, soon.

The most amazing Tres Leches Cake in Los Angeles. I have been coming here for over 3 years. for my b day i had tres leches from another place, but does not compare!
As far as the food inside. i dont know! its seems like more day workers eat there. so if they come in groups of 2 – 3, it must be good. the prices are not posted, but its super cheap $ 5.75. and seafood is $ 6.75
Like i said i strictly come here for the baked goods!
Tres Leches cake also cost $ 15.00 and when you buy a cake they give you a $ 5 gift certificate good for $ 5.00 off yor next cake.
I have tried lots of different Panaderias in the past and nothing comes close to this Tres Leches!
Clean
Cheap
Fresh
Friendly
and overall The Best Tres Leches Cake.

I cannot say I’ve ever tried anything else except for the pastries and popusas. But their pastries has to be one of the best in the valley, I would mark it one of my top bakery spots in WV. The service is really quick, they’ll have you ready to go fast.
The only downside is that they sometimes run out, so you do have to come in early. I would highly recommend coming here for the pastries especially for the pumpkin empanadas, kind of wished I stopped by this morning.
As for the other food, well I haven’t tried it yet since most of the time I go there early morning and it would be too heavy. Good place to buy pastries, really inexpensive. I come here about twice a month to buy a bag full of sweets for my work. I can tell you no one has ever complained and have been complimented on the freshness of the sweet bread.

Y is for Yolanda’s bakery and Y is for YUCKY
YUCKY — -adjective. Slang. thoroughly unappetizing, disgusting, or repugnant. That’s what
says and that is the best word to describe my meal at Yolanda’s Bakery.
Even though Yolanda’s is a bakery, they are also a quick serve restaurant offering Mexican and Central American fare such as Burritos, Tamales, Rellenos and Mariscos. They have 4 tables and some awesome looking pastry cases. Coffee is either 99 cents or $ 1.49 a cup depending on the size according to one sign. They also sell bags of ice for $ 1.49. Other than that, I have no idea what the price is for anything else as the wall menu does not list the prices, nor are there any paper menus to be seen.
Also it was hard to get a look at the food on the steam table due to condensation on the windows of the display case and on the lids. So since I was ordering blind I ordered a Burrito Pollo. They didn’t have fountain soft drinks, just various bottles in cans in a cooler. These were all imports for their Latin American clientele. Things like Jarritos in several flavors, coconut water, and several shelves of glass bottles of Mexican Coca-​Cola. AKA the good shit. If you don’t know the difference, they don’t use High Fructose Corn Syrup south of the border. They use sugar. And although Coke’s official position is the there is no difference in taste, they lie!— everyone knows the sugar in the Mexican stuff is much better.
Anyways, I was surprised that the burrito and the Mexican Coke came to $ 6.04 including tax. The burrito was humongous, about the size and shape of one of those 23 ounce cans of Diet Arizona Ice Tea that they don’t offer for sale there, and when I opened it to add some salsa verde looked like it might be a world-​class burrito.
But alas it wasn’t. It actually was kind of yucky. While there was plenty of cubed chicken, much of it white meat; there was also plenty of evidence that no one took the time to properly trim the chicken. About 4 or 5 times I had to grab a napkin and remove gristle from my mouth, and I did find one piece of bone.
The chicken didn’t seem to be marinated or flavored and was still lukewarm, although the beans and rice were piping hot. Speaking of the carbs, they appeared to have been applied diagonally. While I started the burrito from one end, it appeared there were way to many beans and not nearly enough rice. Towards the middle of the burrito the ratio was just right, but as I worked my way to the finish, the rice overwhelmed the beans. Although the menu promised cilantro and cebolla (onion), those flavors were lacking as well.
At the time I was there about 130 pm on a Wednesday), 3 of the 4 tables were each occupied by a single day-​laborer looking guy all watching a European soccer game (Barcelona V inter Milan) on a Spanish Language station. Judging by the reaction when Barcelona scored, I can only assume that these guys had some serious dinero riding on the game.
I am giving these guys a 2 rating because, although I didn’t order any pastries, they looked delicious. Of course everything covered in frosting looks delicious. Based on the burrito alone, this place would only earn a 1. Also, I think that the lack of posted prices and Diet beverages are major flaws as well.
This is the 25^th in my string of 26 reviews A to Z in the Los Angeles area. If you want to suggest a place further down the alphabet you want me to try, feel free to drop a note