Review El Gallo Bakery - Los Angeles

There was a line, they limit guests inside which is great. Bread selection was okay but wish they had more options. Ordered champurrado and it was hot and so creamy! Will definitely visit again earlier in the day, maybe more will be available.

"Reinforce the mask wearing" Good bread at times, not all the time!

Great service! I purchased Tamales also & my friend said the red chile pork meat one's, tasted a bit sweet. And didn't have enough meat.

The best in East L A I have been going to this Bakery for more then 55 years . No one can match the taste.

Local Mexican bakery in the heart of East LA! Aguas frescas, cakes, breads, cookies and everything in between! I recommend their exclusive "PAYASO" pan dulce!!! Friendly staff but limited parking. Overall, fun desserts! 🥐🥮🍪

At 1:30 pm. On a Sunday, maybe 12 people in line. Good place for sweet bread. Love this place!

Good Mexican sweet bread. Conchas are soft and don’t get stale after 2 days. I had mine for like 3 1/2 days and still tasted fresh

A childhood favorite. The champurado goes perfect with any of baked treat.

The best ban dulce! You can’t find any bread as good as this place.

Just a great place and worth the drive for pan dulce.

On diet days I go by and smell the bread, and on cheat days I go by and have an empanada de calabaza! Amazing...they melt in your mouth!

There is no other Mexican bakery with pan dulcevthat tastes this good! Always worth the trip.

Love this bakery.. For my family we have been going to El Gallo for many years.. It is a tradition for us to get up early to go wait in line for the best rolls ever..

My family has been coming here for 4 generations. We love this place!!! The conchas and cuernitos are my favorite, and their champurrado is the best!!!

This is the best pan dulce, have been coming here for many years. Have yet to find one to compare to in Arizona.

My first time to the bakery!! OMG delicious!!! Melts in your mouth!!! I have been to the restaurant several times, just not to the bakery. Glad I stopped to share with my parents who are in their late 80's and both raised in ELA.

The best pan dulce ever, hands down! My guilty pleasure for sure. Always delish!

Been coming to this amazing bakery since I was a kid, have continued the tradition with my kids. Now that we have moved out of state every time we come to visit family this place is a must stop before heading home to Vegas!!!

Went & bought my self a cookie, The employees are very nice & have always greeted me nice... I go there every Tuesday :)

I drive from the inland Empire just for their Butter Croissants. They're Great!

I haven't tried any other pan dulce that comes close to this pan dulce, I've been eating this bread for the past 20 plus years and it's still the best!

My family has been coming to this bakery ever since I can remember! Everything is always delicious. The pan de agua, empanadas de calabaza, cuernos de mantequilla, elotes, conchas, the bread that looks like a scone with raisins...amazing..cookies...just some of my favorites. No other bakery comes close to the quality. My daughter tried the tamales de pollo en chile verde for the 1st time yesterday and she said they were delicious.

The best bakery in East Los Angeles.. My family has been going to this bakery for 4 generations I lived next to the owners on New York st in East LA.. Right around the corner from where I grew up..

Serving the City of Angels for nearly seventy years it was just past 7:30am on Saturday that the drive was made to El Gallo Bakery, an arrival in East Los Angeles before eight avoiding traffic but finding the small parking lot packed and a queue of patrons already growing.<br/><br/>Founded in 1949 by a siblings from Mexico, a lifetime helping at their father’s Panaderia south of the border providing skills that would serve them well, guests entering the low-slung place nestled amongst Taquerias and Bodegas will find confines cramped but charming, a U-shaped flow around tables lined in goods offering what must be at least one hundred types of Cake and Pan Dulce.<br/><br/>Said to be one of California’s best Mexican Bakeries and still decidedly authentic, Magdalena Martinez-Huerta’s recipes handed down to Jesus who upgraded equipment decades later to scale-up production, it is with most items unlabeled that staff proves happy to explain contents and traditional names, the choice to begin with Concha immediately attesting to better-than-average Flour as the base is yeasty but not dry beneath crunchy Vanilla Sugar.<br/><br/>Ranging from Sweet to Savory but arranged in no particular pattern, baking cups filled moist Sweet Corn Pudding right next to Reposteria such as laminated Puff Pastry filled with Cherries, Pineapple and Almond Paste, it is well-advised that those seeking an unexpected delight invest in at least one item filled with Apples, the typical “Pie Filling” eschewed for Cinnamon-stewed chunks and in the case of what can best be described as a Danish also dusted in buttery Streusel. <br/><br/>Perhaps best known for Cuernos De Mantequilla, El Gallo Bakery’s take on the Croissant quite possibly using more Butter than those in Paris or Lyon, another highlight is delivered by the simple Sweet Cream Empanada while an item listed as “Rieles” takes the same filling and matches it to Guava Jam thus raising the bar even higher.<br/><br/>Always leery of Besos, though Huerta’s version listed as Ojos de Buey is anything but dry and thus a textbook example, it was in three Sugar Cookies including one smile and another decorated like Watermelon that more enjoyable bites were found while the Tres Leches saved for last was wet but not sopping and topped in a Chamoy-covered Mango for those who prefer things a little less sugary.

Their (pan dulce) sweet bread is sub par. Only item worth trying is their empanadas. The bread is way overpriced. If you are in the area and have a craving for pan dulce I suggest you go to "La Favorita" bakery. The sweet bread is made throughout the day and the conchitas are to die for.

Freshest Bread in town. I love this place! The Mexican sweetbread and dinner rolls are always so fresh and delicious, my favorite is the "elote"

Sweet Bread. Small but popular Mexican bakery conveniently located near the Long Beach 710 freeway. Most Mexican bakeries have the same selection, about six different fruit turnovers, or empanadas, including pineapple, apple, pumpkin and others. Plus a few dozen types of sugar sprinkled sweet breads. I like the conchas best. Round sweet bread about the size of a large fist so named because they look like sea shells. Because of the volume sold here they are fresh all day compared to an out of the way bakery where the bread might sit for hours.<br/>A neighborhood favorite for generations. Good service, off street parking, reasonable prices. Try it, you'll like it.

Great bakery pastry and bread but overpriced

So I'm chilling at Cycleway Coffee, checking out this weekly called Brooklyn & Boyle and lol n behold, an ad screams out at me: El Gallo Bakery's 60th Anniversary Celeberation is.. TODAY! After double checking the hours (til 7pm says the ad) and realizing