Tulcingo Bakery & Deli

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Tulcingo Bakery is extremely user-​friendly — just take a tray and tongs and choose what you want from the cases. The piece de resistance is the chicarron at $ 10/​pound. They are fatty, crispy and incredibly delicious. It is truly frightening how quickly we can go through a huge bag of chicarron!
The pastries are fresh and are replenished throughout the day. There are SO many choices, it’s hard to make a decision. The prices are about $ 1 per pastry.
Also, they have cabeza de chivo on weekends!
Tulcingo Bakery is conveniently located a few feet from the 103^rd St. station on the No. 7 line.

Very good bakery and prices are very good. I am a regular customer at this place.

I can’t say I’m a fan of Mexican pastries. I find the breads too dry, almost hard and despite the numerous variations in appearance, they mostly taste the same. But if you love this type of bread, make haste to Tulcingo. Cases and cases holding all different assortments of doughnuts, pastries and breads greet you, some filled with guava, some filled with cheese, some just plain and slightly sweet. The assortment is truly astonishing, and frightening for the gluten intolerant. And lest you think the pastries are stale, fret not. On a late Saturday afternoon, the place was hustle and bustle, with customers carrying trays, on the average each sporting 8 – 12 breads on each tray. I wanted to follow them home to see if all they were feeding hungry alligators with all that bread. The drill is, you take a tray, grab tongs and go for it. These customers were going all out for it. And just in case Tulcingo runs out of bread, which I am sure never happens, there were racks of just baked bread off to the back. And if you wanted fried pork rinds, there was a whole display case devoted just to the stuff, with the handy tongs again. And in case you didn’t grab enough carbs, the front of the store has counters filled with whole cakes and tarts. I was almost embarrassed to get only two pieces, the standard guava filled puff pastry and bread. I can’t say I would make a special trip to come back for either, but if I were in the nabe, I would stop in just to oogle the varieties.

This huge corner space no longer seems to carry atoles but does have nearly any pastry you could dream of for its genre. Nice spot to drop in but nothing phenomenal — jack of all trades master of none kinda deal.

Boy this secret hidden bakery gem just gets better and better!
I was in the area for work and made the short diversion to Tulcingo Bakery.
This visit I noticed some different pastries so I grabbed my tongs and tray carefully chose only four items this time, and let me tell you it was hard to resist grabbing more of varied delicious looking breads/​pastries.
Kudos to the baker whose deft hand really shows as most of these pastries are shockingly light despite being pretty large and very daunting looking.
— The chocolate dipped elephant ear was a deliciously flaky bite with a slight sugar glaze on it that was awesome.
— The Banderilla was a delicate pastry shell comprised of multiple layers of phyllo-​like sheets. It was excellently flaky and had a light sugary glaze on the top shell really made it just right in terms of sweetness.
— The savory bun was quite the surprise as, contrary to what I mentioned above, this was the heavy hitter of the group. Dense and savory, I could best compare this bun to an equivalent sized piece of Irish soda bread. Very tasty, and a smear of butter (no margarine please) will make you feeling happy!
— Cream filled horn was very flaky and light too with a fairly rich and slightly sweet cream filling. Not bad at all.
You cannot go wrong in terms of value at Tulcingo as each pastry is only $ 1.00,
Your biggest problem will probably be curbing yourself and having the self control to not buy one of everything!

The bread is great! And the cakes even better!
They always have fresh bread coming out fresh and hot. I always buy my cakes from here. Forgot to mention they have tamales everyday and on weekends they have carnitas and barbacoa.

this is the first time i’ve visited a mexican bakery and they have huge selections. to start, grab a metal tray and tong and go pick your goodies. i got a churro, a flaky pastry with jam, and a banana nut muffin. they all tasted ok, not too sweet, so that’s a plus! the prices were fair too, less than $ 4 for three items. other than pastries, they also sell some mexican groceries, cheese, eggs, etc. i found it kinda interesting actually.

now this place is a bread wonderland! all types of fresh mexican baked bread they are all deliciousssssssssss, they always have flan and tres leches cake slices OMG yummmmmmmmmmmmm and i absolutely cant forget to mention they sell homemade tamales daily!!! and carntias y barbacoa on the weekends wow this place is amazing, if you havent been here your missing out ! i blame this place for my obesity

After a delicious dinner in the area we took a walk around the neighbourhood and maybe find dessert.
Tulcingo caught our eyes with it’s colorful outside.
There is a lot of eye candy (& cakes) to look at and to drool over.
We brought a bag of samples to take home.
The pastries were good but a little dry and too much breading.
The place is clean and the service was friendly.
There is no place to site inside this large place. It would have been nice to site and enjoy the pastries with coffee.
Just grab a metal pan and tongs. Walk around the rakes of bread and pastries. Some people were just piling up the stuff!
The items were good to OK. The cakes looked good but that will be another time.

I really liked how clean this Mexican bakery is. The bakery takes up the entire corner on both sides of the street. It’s huge!
The cases holding the pastries or as they call it, pasteles, were huge. There was 3 gigantic cases full of pastries that I had no way to identify what pastry is what. There were no labels. I guess you are supposed to experiment which is okay because 7 pastries were just $ 9.25.
They are all really colorful. In the back they had racks and racks of bread also. The racks were super tall. You just pull out the racks and help yourself to a bun or bread. Just get an aluminum tray with tongs first.
The churro is supposed to be deep fried, fyi.
I see that mexican sugar bread has a ton of sugar rolled onto it sorta like a churro. It’s what they like. I can imagine having a tea or black coffee with it.
The pastries are only okay in taste. I like how they look more than the taste. All the pastries are very «bready» is how I would describe it.
It was just fun looking at all the different pastries and breads.

Tamales are delicious… churros taste super deep fried which equals to no bueno for me

Damn you Tulcingo! You are making me obese ! LOL

Although this bakery has moved into a larger location down the block I am still amazed at everything they cram into it.
As you walk in, you are immediately met with wonderfully fragrant Mexican breads and pastries. There’s a nice (but way smaller in comparison to the baked goods) hot food area, and even a refrigerated «Mexican cuisine essentials» section in the back (filled with veggies, etc).
Always nice to visit this Tulcingo outpost.

The smell of freshly baked bread welcomes you as soon as you enter the door. A wide variety of Carbohydrate goodies neatly lined plastic see thru covered shelfs on the left. A stand with aluminum plates and tongs are provided for easy pick for customers. They also have a wide array of «Postres Mexican flans, Gelatines, Pastel de 3 Leches, Platanos etc. and cakes. Snacks and Beverages from Mexico. Right across the Street they have a restaurant called El Original Tulcingo Deli which serves an array of food from Breakfast Huevos, Tacos, Tostadas to Dinner.