Panos Bakery

Delicious! I often buy food here for entertaining and all my friends & family love their food! Bring cash and if you need to pick up an order later in the day call them earlier and they will have it waiting for you.

Pastries were amazing. Staff was very accommodating. We walked in with quite a large order and right away the had it done with in the hour… usually you have to call and place an order a few days to a week ahead.

Anytime my dad goes to Pasadena he brings us the cheese and spinach pies. They are amazing! I’ve tried spinach pies at different middle eastern places and none of those places can compare to how this place taste. If you are in Pasadena area or even if you are not :) u must make the drive and come try this place out. You will be hooked.

This place has the best lahmajun period! Plenty of meat, nice crunch to the sweet onion, sour taste from the pomegranate concentrate, great flavor and amazing texture … The best ! Forget the other places around. This is the real deal. I also like their fried kibbe and the cheese pies. Delicious!

Anything less than 5 stars is a crime! These are the most authentic and caring people you will find. They make everything with the best ingredients and a big dollup of love. The Kibbie better than my mother used to make and the Lehmajun is like heaven sprinkled with awesome sauce! You simply can’t find better tasting food with this level of quality at these prices.
I drive all the way from the inland empire for the privilege of buying from Panos Pasadena and would gladly pay double if they asked me to… that is how good the people, the service and their products are!

I have been coming to Panos for nearly 10+ years. By far my favorite Armenian bakery for Lahmajune (good quality meat, perfect ratio of meat to bread, everything is chopped uniformly, crispy on the edges yet still tender and firm in the center). Their Manaheesh is also the best in town if you like a thinner dough like I do… it’s best when you heat it a pan and crisp it up… heavenly. The Spinach Boureg is the BOMB… for those Unilocalers who gave one star because the Spinach Boureg was sour… you guys are idiots… it’s supposed to be sour. Traditionally it’s seasoned with lemon, sumac and citric acid (I don’t think they use Sumac in thier recipe but my point is traditionally these are ingredients that all give the sour flavor). I’m not a huge fan of the Cheese Boureg myself but my family loves it and will eat a dozen in one sitting. I have also tried thier Tahin Bread and Date Cookies so aromatic and delicious! Bottomline out of all the Armenian bakeries in Pasadena… hands down this is best quality product!
Con– because they supply allot of the local markets in the area with thier goods… they tend to run out of Manahesh and Bouregs pretty early in the day.
Pro– if you know ahead of time that you’ll need some stuff they will graciously put items aside for you if you call in advance.

Love this place! Me and all my family and family friends come here! If you haven’t tried it, you need too! Such a friendly bakery too with high quality items. They’re always constantly baking in the bake fulfilling orders :). Call ahead to ensure they have the items you want and they’ll hold it for you!

Come bright and early for fresh manaesh or jahmajun. Everything runs out pretty quickly. Best lamajun I’ve had in the area so far.

Hands down, the best manaesh in Pasadena. Yummy! The rice in the grape leaves is a bit too sticky for my taste, though.

I came here about a year ago… I know super late review. But I bought the Manaesh, the spinach beoreg, and the cheese beoreg and they were delicious! This was my first time trying middle eastern food like this. The lady working there was very nice and helpful. I’ve been wanting to come back again for the yummy Manaesh!

I have to agree with the previous reviewer. I purchased one spinach boreg which was only $ 0.75 cents, but it was sour. Wasn’t much to my liking. There was one lady working and she was manning my money as well as my food… not too sanitary if ya ask me.
I’d definitely go next door and check out Aladdin Nut House though. They won’t let you down!
Food: 2
Service: 2
Environment: 2
Price: 3

Stopped by the local bakery on my way to work. Not knowing what they had, I picked up a cheese bread off the bakers push cart. Not too bad for $ 2. Cheap and fast breakfast bread on the run!

We found out about the bakery via a local grocery store in Monrovia. First we purchased the spinach boreg for a family get together. My husband’s family is from Turkey. Everyone went absolutely nuts over these. They are made with real lemon juice, spinach and cheese. They taste just like my mother-​in-​laws version when we go overseas.
Next we tried the cheese boregs. If you reheat them at 350 degrees in a toaster oven the pastry will crisp up and the cheese will melt. Delicious! Great for a quick breakfast or even a mid-​afternoon treat with chi (tea). Today I’m planning on visiting the bakery directly for my husband’s holiday party.
As another reviewer pointed out, these are an ethnic cuisine and I cannot say enough how authentic and delicious the boregs are. The spinach is meant to be tart. It is what balances the cheese, herbs, and pastry. Yum!
Personally I think it is very unfair of Mary D to give a 1 star rating on one item. Just as kimchi is an ethnic food — some may love it and others may not. A person should not base an opinion off of one item to qualify as a one star an entire bakery’s offerings.

The Best Manaishe in Pasadena! add some tomatoes, mint, feta cheese & olives and you have a sandwich from heaven. I wasn’t to excited about the lahmajune (Armenian Pizza) felt like you were biting into a sandwich that soley consisted of grilled chopped onions.

I just want to make it clear that spinach boregs are delicious and if MARY D.‘s limited palate can’t tolerate scrumptious and exotic food, then she shouldn’t be reviewing it at all.
What’s the point of spreading haterade about a mom & pop place anyway?! And she’s an «ELITE»?? god i hate Unilocal sometimes…

I was starving and thinking, «I’d like a little something to hold me over ’til lunch,» as I drove down the road. I do not know what compelled me to pull over when I saw this corner bakery, but probably the big blue and white sign. It’s one of many bakeries along this stretch of «Bakery Row» on Washington. Once I parked, I had second thoughts because this looked like a total dump, with dingy dark windows and I wasn’t even sure if it was open until I saw something move behind the glass. I walked with a little trepidation into this dumpy little place and had third thoughts when I didn’t see much out in terms of display and thought that this had to be the single ugliest bakery I’d ever seen in my life. However, I told the guy behind the counter I wanted something with lots of FLAVOR and he sold me a Spinach Boreg and a thing — forget the name — which was super-​thin flat-​bread covered in a beautifully seasoned meat mixture. I liked the boreg, but the other meat thing was fantastic. Yesterday I stopped by at 5:15 p.m. to pick up one of those meat things and was devastated to find them closed, forgetting that bakeries have super early hours. I’m still salivating in an unsatisfied fashion.

Spinach Boregs… it was sour!!! Sour spinach? Where is the dislike button? haha I don’t even know if it is intentionally pickled or the pastry has spoiled!!! I did not enjoy that one bit. *cringe*
I know how to appreciate pickled items. sauerkraut on sausages, kimchi with Korean bbq… But NOT sour veggies in pastry dough
*** It’s intentionally sour. Regardless, not a fan.

I have never been there, but I’m vowing to go soon. Someone at my work who is obviously a proven clinical anorexic must have deposited a little package of Spinach Boregs (little spinach tartlet /​kolochky kind of things) in our office kitchen as «up for grabs.»
I ate one and swooned with lemony cheesey spinach goodness. Then I ate another one out of sheer WOW gotta have another of those. Then I ate a third one, deciding I’d probably better not eat dinner like I thought, maybe I’ll just eat all of these.
I’ve kept the label so I can go there. I’m doomed.

«Take a step into another country»
Some Armenian friends had mentioned about a great little place to get fresh cheese borek in Pasadena’s Little Armenia. East Washington Blvd., that is. What is cheese borek? Well, besides edible nibs of heaven, they are fillo pastry stuffed with feta and mozzarella and baked to goodness. Frankly, my Samoan blood must have some Armenian in it because these things are like crack.
So, I hopped in my car one day on a quest to find this little bakery. After two missed passes, I notice this tiny shop on the corner in a section of the city where time stood still in the 50’s. The architecture only adds to the flavor of the shop, and when you walk in, your senses will trigger immediate salivation. On this day, there wasn’t anyone at the front counter as I stared at the rows of fresh baked breads and goodies. Then, in an open doorway to the back, I could see a silhouette of a very old woman, dressed with a scarf, and looking like a travel poster for Armenia. She was smacking her hands with dough as she stuffed delicate rolls of dough. That was all I needed to see. She could have been stuffing potting soil into socks and I would have eaten them. Then, her son or grandson popped out into the light and asked if he could help me. Minutes later I was walking out with about $ 20 of carbs. And $ 20 at Panos gets you enough carbs to fuel the Space Shuttle on a round trip. Needless to say, I have to work on my self control, but I’d like to see if you can resist any better than I did. Likely not.

Oh my. how I love Pano’s. Can I get a Rachael Ray «YUM-​O»??
This place is carb heaven– and the best part is, you would willingly take twice the carbs if it meant you could have all the Pano’s homemade flavor in return. MmMm… I would have never ever known about this hidden bakery/​grocery mart in Pasadena if not for Mr. H.
Mr. H. is a very sweet gentleman in his 70’s. He started bringing these to our building around lunchtime (because he knew what a winner Pano’s breads were!!) for his nephew who works on the same floor. Of course, being such moochers that we all are, it was not too long after, that the whole building was buzzing about it and taking orders from him. Mr. H. is here nearly every other day now dropping off Pano’s breads. «Two mozzarellas plain, three spinach boregs!!» That’s my usual order: o) Pretty awesome right? Mr. H. is making friends left and right. That’s what good food does to people. It’s just fantastic.
So. more about my order and other yummies: I adore the mozerella (chili or original) dinner breads, their spinach boreg (mini pies), and olive dinner rolls. They do carry other breads ‘n things, but their cheese breads are the most popular. You’ll be hooked at first bite– unbelievable flavor + consistent freshness!
A MUST try for all bread lovers: o)