Panaderia Azucar

I would go to a another Mexican bakery. As a Mexican myself, I have some experience with Mexican treats. This would defiantly not be my first choice for Mexican bakeries. I have been to the bakery a few times since it’s on my route to school. I’ve had the flan, the Tres Leches cake, and the Mexican sugar cookies. The Tres Leches cake is advertised as «The Best Tres Leches in Chicago». The cake was good, nothing special. The sugar cookie was also average. Everything was fine I would eat it again but the flan was a disappointment. I bit into it expecting nice sugary syrup but instead it was just flavorless custard. They have a small selection of sweet breads compared to most Mexican bakeries. Overall I would just go somewhere else.

Delicious! I had the cheesecake and I can’t wait to try more!!! So glad I popped in

Cute little bakery by the Belmont blue line stop. I think it might be family run. They take credit card (minimum $ 5). They’re run pretty close to how most panaderias I’ve been to are — rack of baked goods that you choose, and then check out. Also have coffee and some other foods, but I didn’t get any.
Overall pretty cheap, I stopped here for a quick breakfast bite a few times. The food is alright, nothing offensive. Pastries are a bit dry and crumbly and I get the sense that they might have been sitting in the shelf for some time. The coffee here is pretty bad (a little watery) but for a buck fifty it does the job.
Convenient and quick.

i was excited to order my boyfriends 30^th birthday cake from this bakery. i ordered a fondant cake, i was disappointed the minute i picked up the cake. .the writing on the cake looked sloppy. i paid extra for the cake to be bigger, it looked like all i got was extra fondant. i asked for peaches filling which was also an extra charge, instead of getting fresh fruit, i got canned peaches! the cake itself was not good. never again will i order from this bakery.

My kids saved their coins to buy a cake and surprise me for my birthday. They worked behind my back to have my friend pick up the cake and managed to pull of a great surprise until it we cut the cake. The slices of cake were so hard that not one crumb fell off, the strawberry filling was dried up and tough to touch and the icing was also hard. The cake had been out for about one hour so we knew it wasn’t frozen. Still we tasted it and it was disgusting; it was an old cake.
We immediately called and were advised that we could exchange it. We walked in the next day and they completed the refund very quickly without much discussion or apology for the experience. They were not surprised and mumbled something about how they probably lost track of how long the cake had been sitting in the fridge. This place should leave the cake making for the experts and stick to baking Mexican pastries.

I would like to say I had a horrible experience. My husband went the day of my wedding to pick up my cake and they wouldn’t release it to him because he didn’t have a receipt which is fine but I sent him a text with a picture of it and I called and told them he was coming and they were still giving me a hard time besides that they couldn’t find the receipt. I stated it wasn’t my problem and that they said my cake would be ready by 2:30 and it wasn’t so he waited 30 minutes for them to prepare it on our wedding day which made him behind in schedule with eveything I called and spoke to 2 different people and I feel if they would of been nice and handled it different I would not have wrote this review but since they didn’t care and both ladies were rude I needed to make sure people knew they they service was not we’ll preformed at all and they didn’t try to accommodate at all. It’s a shame because I go for coffee here and there and now I don’t think I will ever go to that place again.

I love this place its a neighborhood business I enjoys supporting. I love their pastries, cakes, and sandwiches. I met them through a charity event, and fell in love with their Sandy Cakes couture cake designs. I order most of my specialty cakes and sandwich party trays from here. Thank you!

After moving from Logan square there was yet to be an open place with great sweet bread! I attempted to give this place a few times and every time their bread is not to perfection. It’s very dense all you can taste is the sugar nothing tastes right. I wouldn’t go out of my way to get anything from here.

I don’t trust to buy Tamales off of street vendors, cause I don’t know where they are coming from and they are overprices with little or no meat in them… So when I found out Azucar sells them I had to try them… Hands down one of the best tamales I’ve bought in a long time! They have Pork, Chicken and Cheese w/​Jalapeño all are excellent and all for a DOLLAR each!

Ordered cupcakes for my daughters bday party and the lady didn’t even bother to tell me they were not secured! They were just trow in the box, no cupcake box holder, cupcakes completely ruined when I opened the box, needless to say I was so angry! And they were dry (almost a yr later) I decided to give them another try and ordered a bachelorette cake that ended up not even looking like the pic they had on the catalog, icing was not the right color n everything was just blah, taste didn’t help either… here I go again decided to get bread thinking that might be their salvation but honestly I think they are very pricey and not that worth it

Nothing impressive. I went in there for a cupcake cake. When we picked it up it was a very pretty cake. Now for the taste; it wasn’t special. The cupcakes were dry. The whipped cream icing almost taste like paint. It wasn’t sweet. It tasted off. My son also had some sweet bread from there and he wasn’t impressed either. He complained about it tasting sour. I’m thinking it was the cheese bread that was sour. Overall I will not try this place again. Like I said before, nothing impressive. Nothing that makes this bakery stand out.

I was driving along Belmont and came along this bakery, I love bakeries they remind me of my childhood. Back when grocery stores had small bakeries and delis in them if at all. For those items you went to the neighborhood, bakery, deli or for those special steaks the butcher.
This place is small by comparison to some of the Mexican Bakeries where you grab a tray and put the items of choice on it. I did skip those because I was attracted to the tamales sign on the window. I bought a mix of pork, chicken and jalapeño & cheese, the last two being better (imo) than the pork, I also got a couple of other things, one being the flan which tasted as if they sweetened it with artificial sweetener, which doesn’t make sense since that stuff is so much more expensive, nevertheless it had that type of aftertaste to me.
A friendly lady greeted me on her way out, owner perhaps? She told me the people behind the counter would help me. They did help, however one of them was friendly but a bit curt, I did get the feeling that I was keeping him from something.
Loading zone parking in front, makes this place convenient. I’d probably stop back in if I were in the area, but I don’t see it as a destination.

I stopped in with my coworker when we were working out in the community around this bakery area. The client we were working with suggested that there was a good panaderia place near her house. Thus, my friend and I decided to stop by and grab a few carby-​sugary treats on our way back to the office. The breads were pretty good and made freshly. No stale breads in here! The crescent was so fluffy and buttery, it melted in my mouth! :)

Put me down as another 4 star review. I didn’t try many of the pastries, but the ones I did (cheese in a sweet dough shell; custard in a sweet dough shell) were fine.
I’ve had better elephant ears; the sugar hadn’t caramelized that much. And the churros, though I asked and was told they’d been made that morning, were slightly chewy. However, most places’ churros are chewy, and they sell cheese and pepper tamales, which are sadly rare. So 4 stars it is. These are a bit messier than tamales I’ve had elsewhere, and the cheese isn’t fully melted, but they’re tasty. I’m also a fan of cheese/​jalapeño bolillos, which they also have. Less white bread and more cheese/​jalapeño would be nice, but I just fed the extra to the birds and enjoyed the jalapeño-​infused goodness. Mmm.

My review is for only one item, therefore i don’t feel right giving it 5 stars.
Rosca de Reyes (three kings bread) is what brought me to this bakery. I heard about them through a mutual friend and I saw on fb that they were having some great deals on the rosca. Naturally i had to check out the deals. If you have tried a rosca then you know it’s really hard to find one that is not too dry or too sweet, not to mention some places want to gouge you for them. I was very happy to see that they have a sweet reserved parking spot right in front of the bakery. The staff was super friendly and they had a lot of samples out. The rosca turned out to be really good, so good even my mom liked it. I will definitely try them again.

Agh… I feel so bad about this review. First let me say that the staff is very friendly but the bread I purchased was not that good. I purchased several different types of bread/​cookies to try their variety and none that I bit into were good. The bread was hard!
I will try this bakery once more because the staff was nice.

Aside from this being a couple blocks from my house (a plus!), the staff is SUPER friendly. Their bakery items rotate pretty regularly depending on customer feedback. The bakers are given room to try new ideas and perfect current faves. This being said, your favorite bread might vary from month to month. Some may view this as a drawback, but being a regular customer, I appreciate the effort they take to improve their product.
Their items range from typical Mexican sweetbreads, to pastries, to tamales, to sandwiches, to daily french roll type breads, to full sized party cakes. During the holidays, they bake specialty cakes & pastries (calaveras de azucar a.k.a. sugar skulls, pan de los muertos, tres reyes bread, etc.).
Although I don’t think they are on par with Rolf’s patisserie with regards to their cakes, their selection is wide and can satisfy lots of different tastes. Our favorite is the Tres Leches cake (non-​alcoholic).
Their tamales are good, but spicy. They sometimes will sell a Tamale Torta, which boils down to a tamal of your choice (I prefer the cheese & jalapeño), deli ham, on a bolillo roll. I never would’ve thought to put a tamal in a roll, but the cheese with the ham & chiles is a hit! They also have a roll with cream cheese and jalapeño which is great for lunch.
Our personal faves for dessert are their bread pudding (a deal at $ 1.50), napoleon (which they call layer cake — weird), and their black forest & red velvet cupcakes. I love their guayaba turnovers, ladrillos, as well as their fluffy white conchas (though there are days when they’re not as fluffy depending on the baker working that day) for breakfast with coffee.
Regarding the review that says they stole bakery pics… I just went on their website and looked through 10 pages of pictures and didn’t see any shots that don’t look like their own. So either the reviewer was out to slander or their website was completely redone. Whatevs…

First off I am a CTA commuter so I love that this bakery is on my route a lot! I do have a big sweet tooth so stopping in I was happy to find so many of my Latin favorites!
Best part is how welcoming the staff is not to mention how delicious there treats are. MY first time in there I walked out with my version of a «sampler» which means a little bit of everything.
Favorites:
Tres Leche Cake (with and without rum)
Rice pudding
I know I will be a returning customer and its nice to know there is a bakery i can count on in the neighborhood.

When I am in the mood for something sweet, like a donut or pastry, I avoid Dunkin Donuts at all costs. Their donuts are horrible, and I would rather try a local place rather than a national chain. So this morning finds me in the neighborhood of Panaderia Azucar and I stop by to try out what looks like a modest, family-​run Mexican bakery. I selected a bread covered with a sugar glaze and I figured this would satisfy my sugar fix. However, the bread really felt and tasted stale. What did they do? Take day-​old bread, cover it with a glaze, and then think people won’t notice? Quality control folks! Come on!

Impressive place. Where else are you STILL gonna get a piece of freshly made Mexican bread for under a dollar??? HERE. There’s many bakeries to choose from in the city, and a few in the ‘hood, but there’s no better variety than here. If you go down the street to Pierre’s, they don’t offer fresh bread. When I came in here, the bread was coming out of the oven.
This place opened a few months ago, and I have popped in a couple times since then. They have yet to get it wrong. I especially like the fact that you can pick your own assortment of pastries and bread.
I will say though, I didn’t see Abuelita hot chocolate on the menu (or anything similar). Also, there’s nowhere to sit, so it’s more of a take-​away spot.
I also like that they offer tamales for sale and cakes for sale. So, hop off the Blue Line at Belmont, walk west ½ a block, and enjoy! If you like french pastries, you’ll love Mexican pastries even more.