I always love passing here when I am on Colfax. I was walking from MLK library when I smelled the fresh baked goods and knew it was El Paisa panaderia. I got the pan de muerto, the caramel churro and the pumpkin decorated concha. The pan de muerto is only available for Dia de Los muertos - so go grab one! I was informed by one of the staff when i asked about it. I have only had the chance to try the pan de muerto. It is fresh, has a pillowy texture, brioche style bread but not too sweet with orange zest and anise. Perfect with tea or coffee! I know the others will be just as delicious as are all their baked goods. Might report back on the others when I get to them but until then I'm going to continue enjoying the pan de muerto and drink my tea. A warm thank you to the staff here. They are always so nice! Find yourself on Colfax this weekend and stop by El Paisa Panaderia! read more

El Paisa Panaderia - L to R: pan de muerto, caramel churro & pumpkin concha - Bakeries Near Me - Aurora, Colorado

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After years of driving by this bakery, I decided to stop in to purchase treats for a medical clinic. There is a wide variety of baked goods to select from. When you walk in, be sure to grab a tray and tongs. There were a few savory options as well. Items I purchased were $1-4 each. Loved their mini concha for $1. Would have been nice to have labels with main ingredients and allergens. There was a slight language barrier with the staff, but nothing Google translate can't help with. There was parking along colfax. This is a grab and go spot, no place to eat the items purchased. Check out this bakery if you're in the area. I will be back to support this localist owned spot soon! read more

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Nothing was wrong, I was looking for different pan dolce than what if offered. We did enjoy the bread that we did purchase.

Our daughter wanted an amazing tres leches cake for her birthday and a quick search on Yelp lead me to this awesome bakery. Thank you Yelpers!!! The cake was so delicious and moist with wonderfully light frosting and a strawberry filling. I'm sure the cake served 30 but just ten of us gobbled it all up with everyone asking for a second slice. Yes, we were piggies but it was THAT good. Several family members mentioned this is the cake they want in their birthdays also. The bakery had many cakes of different sizes already made in the case and ready for same day pick up. read more

El Paisa Panaderia - Tres Leches cake - Bakeries Near Me - Aurora, Colorado

This is a hole in the wall place that has such a huge selection of bread and pastries - it was certainly a overwhelming to pick out a few to try for just one person! My only qualm is that I wish there were more descriptions of each pastry and their fillings, but it was also fun not knowing what to expect. I tried a churro which had apple filling I believe - and ate it all before I took the picture. The staff are super nice and helpful in making selections. I'll have to return to try their cakes another time. read more

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All their pastries/breads are always fresh. It never disappoints. The staff is always friendly.

Came here for conchas for my coworkers. Great pastries, kind and quick service, home feel ambiance. Highly recommend!

This is such an amazing bakery find!! They are open almost any hour of the day and are stocked up on everything no matter the time you go ( I have now been about 3 times). The prices are insanely reasonable, coming out to about $1-$4 per item depending on what you order. The goods are baked fresh daily (so you'll have to eat them within 1-2 days or keep things refrigerated), and absolutely delicious. I don't usually love panaderias because I find that most of the baked goods end up being too stale/hard (I prefer my breads a little chewier), but the breads here are amazing, even the conchas (which I've always disliked). Everything is fresh, tasty, not too sweet, with great texture. My favorite thing I've found here is their Quesadilla Salvadorena. It's almost like a cheesecake but cornbread texture? Hard to describe, but its slightly sweet and savory and makes for an absolute treat. read more

Ordered pan de muerto for my kindergartners. It was so fresh and delicious!! Gracias!!!

Coming from Houston, I miss the panaderias filled with conchas, pan and tres leches. I was craving it and happened to see this bakery along Colfax. It's clearly a local staple based on the friendly greetings between regulars and the cashier. The churros here are filled, making them a must-get. I also loved their pumpkin (calabaza) empanadas, which are generously filled and not too sweet. Their pan de muerto was also delicious. Try to bring cash, as card is accepted but will be a 0.30 surcharge. read more

El Paisa Panaderia - Pan de muerto for Día de los Muertos - Bakeries Near Me - Aurora, Colorado

super welcoming and nice people, the bread i'm not even exaggerating is so fresh and soft. and for a super affordable price. 10 out of 10. now i know the place to go for pan read more

If you're looking for Latin American goodies on the east side, this is it! Delicious cakes, gorgeous tasty cookies and other baked goods, and nice helpful service. We bought a slice of tres leches and took it to the nearby Greenway park for an afternoon snack-delicious! read more

One of the few Panaderias that's open on Saturday until 8:30 PM! Stopped by here to grab some pastries and jalapeno bread for Sunday breakfast. Let me tell you, we were NOT disappointed. The jalapeno buns were freshly baked and had a tonn of jalapeno cream cheese stuffing. Coupled together with a variety selection of different pastries all of which were fresh and delicious. While we were there we also grabbed a small serving of the Tres-leches (with chocolate drizzle), which was perfectly moist with plenty of the tres-leches mixture soaking the cake, the crumb of the cake was nice and dense giving it a good contrast to stand up to the soak (a lot of places get this wrong giving you mushy cake). The sweetness was perfect in my opinion as i don't like my deserts sickly sweet with a nice layer of cream and fruit in between the layers. Delicioso! We will definitely be back when we're in the area. :thumbsup: read more

Love it here. The gal at the counter was super sweet and so is the pan dulce! Got myself four conchas, one in every colour to relive my childhood and throughly enjoyed each single caloric and sugar overdose. They also have a section for spices and drinks. Go in, go up to counter, grab and orange tray and a pair of tongs and fill it up! Will be back! Bonus*** got hit on by an already drunk homie who was carrying his tall boy straight out in public (no brown bag for him dammit!) at 9:45 am. He was walking on the street near the panadería living the dream! read more

El Paisa Panaderia - Bakeries Near Me - Aurora, Colorado

I have been craving Pan Dulce (Mexican Sweet Bread) since we moved from East L.A. and never found any worthwhile until yesterday afternoon. My other half and I were on our way to the Denver Botanical Garden and Google sent us in a direction that lead us to this discovery. Oh Em Gee, was I happy! We both spotted it on Colfax and had to stop. The smell of fresh ,warm bread... Oh Yes Please! What I loved was one young woman was removing an almost empty tray of donuts and replacing it with a new tray of fresh ones. And a guy in back was cutting biscuits in back and this was at 3:30 in the afternoon. I chose wisely Two Chocolate Conchas ( they look like seashells) and one Pan de Muertos ( a special bread made for Day of the Dead). I was in heaven. Soft, tasty and of course messy. Wouldn't have it any other way! The sugar does dribble about but that's part of the experience. They make/sell cakes and have a selection of cold drinks also for purchase. Safe to say , we're coming back. read more

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Amazing and authentic Mexican Bakery. Please take the time to look at and taste their amazingly large selection of baked goodies!

Fui por una Rosca y estaba mas seca que el desierto. También las conchas y las donas bien viejas yo creo las hicieron desde el dia primero. Otros dias el pan esta rico pero ahora se pasaron read more

Stopped by after reading other reviews, I am from Dallas TX, this place did not disappoint! Good sweet bread selection and the tres leches cake was DELICIOUS!!! Perfectly light and even had strawberry filling. You will eat more than one slice, they even bagged it up so it wouldn't leak during the car ride. I will definitely be back for the tres leches cake! read more

Each and every single piece of pan from this place was delicious, moist and crunchy at the same time! Worth the trip!

Good selection of tradicional Mexican pastries. I hope they can make churros and cheese cakes in the future! read more

We stayed around the corner from this spot and I knew we'd have to stop in for a taste. No fully sure what most things were but that is half the fun! We selected a few familiar items like a churro and chocolate dipped palmier-type treat. Both were tasty and seemed freshly made. The fluffy powdered roll with the pudding dollop was a bit underwhelming - appreciated the unique spice element for a change in flavor but the roll itself was dry and seemed a day or more old. The strawberry streusel type fold over was very tender thanks to the egg based on the pastry, which I appreciated. The coarse ground sugar made for a nice presentation and added sweetness along with the fruit filling. All in all this was probably the sweetest option which I appreciated that the others weren't overly so compared to most American bakery items. I think my impulse by at the register may have been my favorite item, or at least a tie for second with the strawberry turnover. The roll was very fresh, tender and mildly sweet and enveloped a wonderful cream cheese and jalapeño center that could stand alone as a sandwich in my opinion. For only $1.50 it was a great addition to our order, which totaled under $6.00. Great value for the quality selection. Would love to try a few more of the less sweet/classic bread or roll options if we stop back before leaving town. I read their tres leches cake is phenomenal too and after trying these items - I'm sure it certainly is! read more

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Authentic amazing sweetbreads, churros, tres leches and so much more! This place will be on my "absolutely must go to" list anytime I'm in Denver/aurora. read more

We ordered a tres leches cake for my boyfriend's birthday from here. It was the most amazing tres leches I have ever had. It was easy to fine, easy parking, and friendly staff. The other pastries inside looked amazing as well. read more

Everything I got was delicious and the bakery staff so kind to explain the different pastries (not all labeled). Very affordable to take the family for a sweet treat too! Can't wait to return. My favorites so far: guava cream cheese pastry, strawberry turnover, and cream cheese jalapeño savory pastry. read more

Made the 30 min drive and picked up some bread today! It was well worth the drive! I got a chocolate donut and immediately ate it in the car lol it was very soft and fresh and delicious and had a very nice cinnamon flavor. Will definitely be picking one up every time! Also got some conchas and they are very soft and fresh as well! This place is amazing! read more

Nailed it! I'm from Los Angeles and have been searching for pan dulce for a while now. Everything I've had here tastes authentic. The churros are bomb, and I don't even really like churros so that's saying a lot. read more

The Mexican bread here is absolutely wonderful! Thy are constantly replenishing bread and it smells like heaven in there. Each bread I selected, and there were many, looked and smelled fresh. They had my favorite pan con queso which is sweet cream cheese filled bread - yum! The conchas were soft and the texture was just right. None of the bread I tasted was dry, all was soft and moist with amazing flavor and with fresh bread coming out regularly, well, you can't just buy 1. Why the 4 stars, well I saw there were used tongs in the drinking fountain. Hopefully they were the dirty ones waiting to go back to get washed instead of rinsed on the fountain. I also think they should provide clean tongs and trays after each use, however, I've never seen that at any panaderia, so whatevs. Lastly, the gal replenishing bread JD on gloves but touched the gross storage case handles to put bread in and then went in the back to sprinkle sugar on fresh bread. Kinds gross to me since many hands touch those handles. read more

Very friendly staff. Very fresh pastries. And the BEST Tres Leches cakes in Denver! A must go to if you love fresh baked Mexican bread/pastries/cakes. read more

Muy Rico!! Bought a full sheet of tres leches cake good for 25-35 people for only $30.30!! & it was absolutely delicious! Best tres leches I've ever had the cake is soaked in the milk just like it's supposed to be! Fruit on top is tasty also! (Sorry for the bad picture it was the left over damage from the party ) read more

El Paisa Panaderia - Tres Leches Sheet Cake - Bakeries Near Me - Aurora, Colorado

This place is dangerous. Dangerous to your waistline and your sanity. How do I not pick more than... a dozen??? I don't like leaving sweets lying around the house and I don't want delicious baked goods to get stale so if I buy more than 1 or 3 or... however many, I EAT THEM! EAT THEM ALL!! DANGEROUS!!! The routine goes like this. You walk in and go to the counter and pick up a plastic tray and a pair of tongs. You make your selections (the concha are a fav. They are flat and round topped with a sugar blend. I like the brown topped cinnamon flavored ones. They taste like a better version of a donut.) and then take them up to the counter to pay and have them bagged or boxed to take out (I haven't had the gauche to just say no to the bag and shove a whole one in my pie hole but you never know...). All the cake type varieties are good as are the denser cake types. My favorite Mexican pastry is called a Yo-Yo and it's two half round cake/biscuit cookies dipped in raspberry jelly that are then stuck together and rolled in shredded coconut. If any of that sounds good to you then do yourself a favor. EAT THEM! read more

Love this place ! I don't even live in the area but I drive all the way over there just to get their amazing Pan Dulce. The one thing I liked about this place is that it's on the corner on colfax and right away you can see all the goodies displayed from the outside. As you walk in you you get the amazing smell ! And they have a wide selection. There was only one little downside not everything was labeled so I had no idea what everything was. So I had to ask a few times. But everything is fresh and delicious and you can see the staff baking fresh in the back as well . Oh they have cakes to order too! Overall I highly recommend this place. To the owner please label the pastries thank you! read more

Fresh! Still warm. This place is delicious. The customer service is top notch. You can see the guys in the back working hard because you know the fresh stuff is gone quick! I've been looking for this since I moved from San Bernardino Ca. I was so excited to eat my pink concha, I told the sweet lady to leave it out of the bag read more

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This place is totally awesome. Their churros changed my life. I stopped on a whim, and I'm totally happy I did. The staff is very friendly, and didn't let my lack of know how and spanish prevent me from getting my treats! Just stop by, and you won't regret it! read more

Hidden Gem. Amazing bread, friendly staff and very reasonable prices. They are open early and close late, super awesome business, I brought my relatives to try the bread. read more

They are a very clean place, the pan dulce is very good! I may have been there at the wrong time- usually pan bolillo is always fresh- today it was a little dry as well as the conchas. But everything else was very good- pastel de piña, cheesecake, and the rebanado (this was the best thing here and I'd only eat this from this Panaderia). read more

El Paisa recently reopened after a two year closure due to a fire. I wanted to show my support and stopped in for a Mexican sugar cookie. I walked out with cookies, pan dulce, fruit bars, and bolillos (rolls filled with cheese and jalapenos). If you have ever had a pan dulce, you know that they can be really bad and tasteless or mildly sweet with nice flavor. El Paisa has the best pan dulce I have ever eaten and I grew up in San Antonio, the sugar topping was perfect. The tres leches cake looks devine and so do all the other treats. And yes, the rolls filled with cheese have become a staple in our home. Welcome back to The Fax, El Paisa. read more

There are lots of Mexican bakeries all over the Denver metro area, but this is hands down the best one I've found. In addition to their amazing variety of fresh pastries, they make the most heavenly tres leches cake imaginable. Everyone in my family always gets our birthday cakes made there. And their bread pudding is absolutely to die for. Basically, this place is fantastic. There's a good reason why it's busy no matter what time you go in. read more

I've been looking for a good panaderia for months! I was on my way to another panaderia down the street when I spotted this place on the corner. We walked with the intention of buying just a few pan de huevos, and walked out with nearly two dozen goodies! El Paisa had a very nice variety considering the modest size of their store. The associates were very helpful and even pulled out some fresh, additional empanadas that weren't displayed. The pan de huevos could have been much softer, but the flavor was good. I enjoyed all of the custard filled breads the most. You can bet I'll be back for more! read more

Great bolio great pan dulce. Very fresh and soft. I love Mexican bread and this was way more than I was expecting! Very shifty area but was worth it. read more

The best freaking Panadería on the East side! 2nd to nothing! Love these people and the bread they bake!