A soft enriched bread roll topped with a sweet shell-pattern crust of sugar and butter paste, baked to crackle. The Mexican breakfast bread, eaten torn into pieces and dunked in hot chocolate or champurrado.
Concha (Spanish for shell) emerged in Mexico after French and Spanish pastry techniques arrived through colonial-era and Porfiriato-era European bakers. La Vasconia on Tacuba 73 in the Centro Historico, founded 1870, is widely held as the oldest pan dulce bakery in Mexico City; its conchas, orejas and trenza de higo are the local benchmark. The shell-shaped pasta crust is scored with a special crimper called a pan dulce sello. Pasteleria Ideal (Calle 16 de Septiembre, 1927) and Panaderia Rosetta (chef Elena Reygadas, 2010) hold the modern canon for sweet bread in the city.
5 editor picks for Concha (Pan dulce) in Mexico City, ranked by editorial score. All Mexico City signature dishes · Concha (Pan dulce) across every city.
Panaderia Rosetta ★ 4.8
roma-norte · Colima 179, Roma Norte, Cuauhtemoc, 06700 Ciudad de Mexico
Panaderia Rosetta in Mexico City is Elena Reygadas' Roma Norte bakery on Colima since 2012, the bakery counter where the rose-guava roll and the concha drive.
Pancracia Panaderia Artesanal ★ 4.5
roma-norte · Orizaba 203, Roma Norte, Cuauhtemoc, 06700 Ciudad de Mexico
Pancracia Panaderia Artesanal in Mexico City is the Roma Norte takeaway bakery on the corner of Orizaba and Chiapas, a small counter that puts out sourdough.
Pasteleria Ideal ★ 4.4
centro-historico · Republica de Uruguay 74, Centro Historico, Cuauhtemoc, 06000 Ciudad de Mexico
Pasteleria Ideal in Mexico City is the 1927 Centro Historico bakery on Uruguay Street, the two-floor cake hall where conchas, oreja and the kilometre-long.
La Panera Coyoacan ★ 4.4
coyoacan · Londres 47, Del Carmen, Coyoacan, 04100 Ciudad de Mexico
La Panera Coyoacan in Mexico City is the Del Carmen artisan bakery and cafe on Londres just off Plaza Hidalgo, a sit-down room with house-baked breads.
Pasteleria Suiza ★ 4.3
condesa · Parque Espana 7, Condesa, Cuauhtemoc, 06140 Ciudad de Mexico
Pasteleria Suiza in Mexico City is the 1942 Condesa bakery facing Parque Espana, the Spanish-Catalan-Swiss bake shop now in its third generation that put out.