I think this place is known for their quesadilla but I was passing by and saw they were open (they don't have hours posted anywhere) so I got an aimohadas and it was delicious--the shape makes it so that the edges are crisp while the center is cakey and the caramelized apricot jam on top was delicious. For $1.50, an awesome afternoon pick-me-up! read more

Pan Lido Salvadoreno - aimohadas - Bakeries Near Me - San Francisco, California

I had high hopes for Pan Lido after my first visit. I was with my brother and nephew, and we stopped in for some cookies and pan dulce before a fun excursion nearby. It was late afternoon, so they didn't have much in terms of variety, but what we ate was good. I had no idea at that point, years before the pandemic, that a fire would destroy my flat in early 2023, and by May of that year, I was living a short distance from Pan Lido. I didn't realize this at first, but I was walking on 22nd Street from South Van Ness Avenue when I did a double-take, because while I generally knew this place was somewhere in the Mission, I didn't know it was here. I was excited finally to try its full complement of sweets and treats. I was a Missionite for almost two years, but did I ever step foot in Pan Lido again? Yes, I did. But one of the times I came, I was just about to order when I got a work phone call that required me to hustle back to my apartment in order to take care of something time sensitive. I returned a few times after that, but always late in the day, and they didn't really have what I wanted. On the rare occasions I did walk by at or just after eleven a.m., it was never open. So I've only got that single year 201_ experience to go by. The people are friendly. The hours are atrocious and not adhered to, whatever they are. read more

Listen, if you're looking for trendy trending, any thing everyone's into this may not be the place for you. This place is home for Latinos, Salvadorans in particular. This is our pan dulce. These are our tamales . Get any ideas of what the pan dulces and Tamales you've had out of your head these are the real deal for Salvadorans. Do I have a favorite, but a course! Several, I've always loved the quesadilla, not be mixed up with Mexican quesadillas! This is a sweet bread not a tortilla with cheese! The tamales both pork and chicken are wrapped in banana leaves, and taste like home. I love this place, I love that it's tucked away and still our little secret, well for now. Enjoy, explore! read more

I drive by here every morning around 9:20 am and they are never open. It's been over 2 weeks and I haven't been able to get pastries.

They don't take apple pay nor debit or creditcards.... their coffee sucks service is slow

*** In Short *** Not the quesadilla salvadorena you're looking for. *** In Depth *** Having spent summers in El Salvador as a kid, I grew to really love quesadilla salvadorena: a pastry akin to a cheesy pound cake, and one I've tried to find locally for quite some time now. There's actually a surprisingly vibrant Salvadorean community here in SF, with a handful of shops offering Salvadorean pastries, these included! Stopped by Pan Lido to try them out the other week, and, well, wasn't really sold on their take of my childhood favorite: these were lightly sweet (a good thing), but lacking in texture (a bit too soft) and cheesy flavor. ***Accessibility Info*** Venue - Not accessible without help, unfortunately, with a single (short) step to get inside the business. Once inside, however, there's enough space to get around, with your standard height bakery display cases. read more

One of my coworkers brought pineapple cookies from this place. They were delicious. I sent my partner to get us some pan dulce there a few days ago and the place was closed when on Yelp and Google maps it says it should be open. Not reliable and just a waste of time. It's a shame because those cookies were so good but I guess I'll never be able to try their pan dulce. P.S. My partner asked a neighbor next door to pan lido about their hours and he said that they open whenever they want and their young generation don't care about the business. read more

It's just awesome pastries. I've been going here for years and it never disappoints. You can honestly do no wrong with whatever you choose.

Do you remember the first time you fell in love? If you've forgotten, let the owners welcome you in to Pan Lido and show you the way! I first tried one of their tamales from the owners son (Shout-out to Walter jr!) (Let me add I absolutely hate mexican tamales), I was reluctant to try - but I've never had a Pan Lido tamale! I was instantly hooked. I've never had such a moist and flavorful tamale before, and the way Pan Lido wraps them up, you can tell it's made with pride and love. Now it's not ALL about the tamales...the bakery is nestled down in the mission, and have their own parking lot (what!?), so if you're lucky you can grab a spot and hang out and eat there all day while having a nice chat with Walter (owner). The bakery hosts a wide variety of treats, from fresh baked bread loafs, various savory and sweet pies, cookies, turnovers..the list goes on and on. Everything you try here is a hit, and you will be treated like family and with the utmost kindness and hospitality. Come support your local Salvadorian bakery who's been in business since 1981! read more

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I do recommend it is the best Pan Salvadoreño. we made a big order from this place for a wedding and everybody loved the pastries and also the tamales.. you should try it. It really works and it's not so expensive very reasonable prices. read more

Sucks, loved this place so much would always come down to the city just to buy some. Hours say 9am-6:30pm but clearly a lie. read more

Pan Lido Salvadoreno - Closed when it should be open - Bakeries Near Me - San Francisco, California

I have a problem with people lying to sell bread. We went in there and asked if it was fresh ( maybe made in the morning, most bakeries do) the man behind the counter assured us that everything was made fresh the same day. He lied! After buying $40 dollars worth of bread, almost all except for the semita' was dry and sugar was dissolved in the relampago. I would say this bakery is hit or miss. read more

Service is not so great, and the bread at this location is not fresh. The bread is stale and without flavor

Cute little shop! Really sweet owner and pan was amazing and great quality. Definitely stop by here if you can!

I LOVE THIS PLACE delicious bread and I love that it is family owned Ps I am the owners son read more

My wife loves this bakery located in the Mission District of San Francisco. She finds the pan dulce very fresh and delicious. I must agree, the majority of the bakery items are fresh and pretty good. The price is a little high but as far as number of bakeries in the neighborhood it's not bad. My wife does speak Spanish and enjoys chatting it up with the owner who is very friendly and probably enjoys speaking Spanish to a little Asian lady. Parking not to good here though since the surrounding bar and restaruant have outside dining and drinking at the outside kiosks read more

Oh Pan Lido, what happened? Over priced, stale and just not good. Wouldn't mind the price if the pan was still good. Pastelito de piña with no piña and the little cupcake ones were salty? Off day? read more

How Salvy are you? (translation: salvy = Salvadorean / Salvadorian / native of El Salvador) I love this place. It reminds me of being in my mother's kitchen and having fresh baked pan frances, peperechas, panuelos, etc. You can walk in this place and leave with a bag full of bread for $3 and change. Taste-wise I would say it gets more nostalgia points than test points, but that's the beauty of tradition. I remember walking to panaderia Lido in El Salvador and it's great to have a couple of these in the U.S. They even sell tamales every now and then. This is my SPOT. read more

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My grandparents have shopped here since I was a baby. This is our families favorite pan dulce place. Now my kids eat the pan dulce from here and love it! They won't eat any other pan dulce. We're not local so we always make sure to purchase plenty of goodies to last us. I've tried other pan dulce places when we're not able to make it to pan lido and nothing ever compares :( Wish I could give more than 5 stars for this authentic family owned business!! read more

Pan Lido Salvadoreno - So many delicious goodies :) top right with the pink sprinkles are my favorite- I forget what they're called. - Bakeries Near Me - San Francisco, California

I have to admit, I'm not the most spontaneous person. I always do a pretty thorough job reading reviews of restaurants and dishes so I order the "best thing there." But on my way to the Post Office, I walked by Pan Lido and literally stopped in my tracks. The smells of fresh baked goods were wafting from their door - it didn't smell overly oily like your typical donut joint, and there were a wide array of options that looked fresh and were not dyed unusual colors like at most Mexican bakeries. Most things seemed pretty cheap, like a vanilla muffin was only 50 cents but leave it to me to select one of the pricier options. The tortas parosa ($2) is a rectangular pastry, it looks pretty fluffy, but is actually dense and crumbly, and tastes alot like cornbread or a sweet vanilla bread. So delicious with coffee. The tortas alamanas ($2) is similar to the parosa, it is slightly sweet like a large plain blueberry muffin, same dense fluffy moist consistency. I think i still prefer something a bit dryer with my coffee, something more scone like, like a parosa. But it was good (they said they planned to make this on Saturday). I read up on Salvadorian pastries, and the Quesadilla is one of their most popular, they sell it in smaller sizes at this location so you can try it for $2 probably. It is a sweet, parmesian based pastry. Let me know how it is, it doesn't sound too appetizing to me hah. I am definitely stopping by before coffee tomorrow morning. Unfortunately, no one spoke English so I am going to have to eat my way through all the different pastries to figure out what everything is. read more

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I'm more familiar with a Mexican panaderia than a Salvadoran one, but there's similarities. There's less variety, but everything is different and larger in size. Staff was nice. I got a budin, which is a sweet item made with bananas. It's soft and custard-like. I also got a pastry, not sure what it is called, with a hard, flaky rounded shell with a custard/creme in the middle. This was not really sweet, so that was good. read more

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OG bakery! Typically traditional south american bakeries have too much lard, however this place is delicious and I couldn't taste any lard. Ask the host what her favorite is. read more

Pan Lido Salvadoreno - Panadera - Bakeries Near Me - San Francisco, California

You can never go wrong coming here for sweet bread (pan dulce). My favorite is Viscotela (cookie like sweet) & Quesadilla (cheese bread). The people are super nice. The only problem is parking and CASH ONLY. But overall it's a good spot Salvadorian pastries. read more

Overly hyped . The bread tasted old and stale . Extremely disappointed. I also went in and the lady that helped me seemed bothered when I asked for the prices. read more

They have terrible customer service and their bread is highly priced! Also keep an eye out how they charge you! You take a couple of pieces of bread and all of sudden your total is $20. I notice how they calculate everything and then bam hit you with $30 dollars out of no where! Ask for an itemized receipt. read more

Our favorite panadería, worth the drive into the city every time! Know that they are cash only, and they do tend to sell out. So plan accordingly, everyone is super nice and I love that it's an authentic Salvadoran bakery, they also have tamales for sale (at least on the weekends)!! Stop in and get a little taste of home! read more

I've been coming here ever since I was little. My family is from El Salvador so having something that reminds us of being in El Salvador is really special. Everything is so incredibly delicious and traditional. No matter where you're from, pan lido is undeniably delicious. Also my favorites are the relámpagos! ahh son tan deliciosos read more

Tray after tray of Salvadorean pastries awaits you at this bakery. They're good about having labels and prices in place (many items were 50 cents)...but terms like izalquena and margaritas (that look like cookies) didn't mean much to me. I saw cookies, cakes, muffins, and pies (don't know the proper names), many with fruit fillings or a dab of fruit jam on top. The woman behind the counter was very patient with me and helped me pick out a bag of goodies without fruit, made out of rice, corn, etc. It's not serve yourself (with the tray and tongs). * Round pie like looking pastry, had a milky lightly sweet center (condensed milk?) that added moistness, to the center, very nice, the contrast of the crunchy exterior and the softer center * Muffin made out of rice flour didn't taste like rice, it was simple, not that sweet, slightly crusty, kinda like a corn muffin, good * Flat cookie with grooves: tasted like roasted corn, made with corn meal? Gritty, sweeter than the other things I had, liked it, different, would be great with coffee Everything I had was really good, light, not buttery, often crunchy (but not dry) in texture. These seemed really fresh. Cash only. read more

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I was very excited to try this place. It would bring me back to my hometown, El Salvador, where this name is made out of respect. Instead I found a corner dirty place with a couple of empty trays in the case...so sad, but I still wanted to give it a try, one of the 2 entitled women at the counter (owners?) said "This is all you get", Definitely not going back. read more

*************************************300************************************ An ode to my heritage, and ode to my people, and ode to El Salvador... What a great way to hit 300! Don't forget to check out my pics! Pan Lido is my favorite Latin Bakery. The bakery and sweet bread truly bring back nostalgia rooted in deep fond memories with my mother and father. I was introduced to this little gem when I was 12 by my father, and have been hooked ever since. Many try to replicate...but nothing comes close...well unless you fly to El Salvador... I try to make "the" mecca to this fine establishment every time I head to San Francisco. I start off with some pupusas and finish off with Pan Lido. If you normally try Mexican Sweet Bread, you will notice some slight differences. We have quesadilla(yup it's sweet), semita, pasteles, oreja's, peperechas, milhojas, borrachos, relampagos, suspiros, bunuelos, and tamales too boot! I always leave with a box, since I can never tell when I will be back. The bread is so fresh, buttery, light, and flakey...the salpores are my absolute favorites. Oh yeah...and they sell lorroco great for fresh, home made pupusas! CASH CASH CASH-They only take cash. CASH CASH CASH. I don't recall having to take a number, but the service is cafeteria style. By this I mean, you walk up, the attendant smiles at you while grabbing a tray, you pick and choose what you want from the window, and make your way to the register. Parking is hard, service can be hit or miss, and this place sure does look sketchy from the outside. If you take it for what it is, a great bakery, then you will love it as much as I do... Thanks Pan Lido...for making me smile and filling my belly and taste buds with El Salvador memories and joy! read more

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Love Pan Lido and their fresh baked goods. Make sure to try the Tamales! The people who run this bakery are super sweet.

This is not the authentic bakery from El Salvador, the real one is totally different, very well done, specially the cakes which is the the main product of the bakery. This persons are using the brand LIDO with out any license or permits from the company and the product could not be more far from the real one. Este no es la autentica panaderia del Salvador. La verdadera es totalmente diferente el pan y la decoracion es muy bien hecho. Estas personas estan usando la marca LIDO sin permiso o lisencia de dicha compania y do producto en question de calidad no podria estar mas lejos del verdadero. read more

I have a sweet tooth and I love their Milojas bread and the espumillas. I must admit they are pretty expensive, but i dont know of any other salvadorean bakery around here. So everytime i go to San Francisco I HAVE to stop by and get me some sweet bread! LOVE IT! *dont like the fact that thay only accept cash.. kind of inconvenient. read more

Pan Lido Salvadoreno - Espumillas(left) milojas (top white cake) novias ( bottom) cinnammon muffin - Bakeries Near Me - San Francisco, California

One day, I have a wonderful bread that I thought Mexican. So, my search begun from Valencia St to Bryant St, but couldn't find it (guess how many I tried.) I finally asked the person who brought the bread and found out this place. I knew this place for a long time, but had never stepped in. A cream horn has very flaky shell and marshmallow like cream filled. Other one has a very decent sweetness of pineapple filling. While I was at the store, few family with kids stormed, and parents told them "Only one! Only one" that made me smile. But that "Only One" echos when I step in the store;otherwise, I loose control to get whatever I want. Oh, their business card said "PAN DULCE, FRANCES", I'm curious to find out more of their bread. read more

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I was craving tres leches and found this place on yelp. I figured with all the good reviews and how authentic it looked, the tres leches would for sure be good. I was wrong. Just upon appearance, it looked dry but i went on a whim and trusted it bc i was craving it so much. The actual slice was SO dry. Most of the cake was really just cake. Wasn't even touched by the leches. The cream was a marshmallow-y type of cream, which made it taste kinda fake and too sweet compared to actual whipped cream. I would not get the tres leches here. Was pretty disappointed. What kept me from giving this place less stars were the people working there. Although they did not know much english, they were still very willing to help and very nice and welcoming. They even had a slice on display but went to the back to get me a fresh slice when i ordered. I appreciated that. read more

Definitely an indulgence to enjoy in moderation as I'm not aspiring to the body type of most of the patrons there. I'm not sure if it's Salvadoran pastries in general or just this place's preparations, but I thought the treats were just ok. Huge selection of inexpensive sweets and some savory pastries. Good for a quick snack in the neighborhood, but Tartine has nothing to fear... Guava Cookie: Orange crumbly cookie that was mildly sweet. Guava jelly, likely from a jar or a can, sweetened up the center. Too dry for my tastes. Leche Cookie: Like the guava cookie, but without the tasty inside. Instead it was just condensed milk, not even "dulce de leche". Least favorite of the batch. Pink Cake Sandwich with Pineapple Filling: Looks like a Latin American whoopie pie. Extremely artificially colored red cakes with a sugary coating encasing a sticky pineapple jelly center. Too much cake compared to the measly spread of pineapple filling. I had to throw the top out to get to the right ratio. Banana Pudding: There's like a whole banana bushel in this pudding! Forget those puddings that are filled with artificial banana flavors. I swear, every bite is filled with so much banana that monkeys would be jealous. There is just enough sugar/cream/egg to make it a true pastry in the consistency of bread pudding. Favorite dessert I've tried here! read more

Love the quesadilla, semita alta & pacha and the pasteles. Excellent pastries. I want some now!

Omg this is the best pan dulce place ever!! And great customer service. If you're in SF definitely check this place out

The best place to buy Salvadorian pastry, especially Delicious Semita and Torta de pasas!

Without a doubt this is one of San Francisco's hidden Gems. Without a doubt one my favorite places to get sweet bread for the whole family. Only complaint that I get is why I didn't buy more!!! read more