Panaderia Luque is a bakery in Realejo, Granada.
Panaderia Luque on Cuesta del Progreso in Granada is the Realejo neighbourhood panaderia for Twelfth Night roscones and the citys best Christmas mantecados.
Tip: Seasonal: roscones de reyes come out late December; the rest of the year run a steady pan basket.
Address: Cuesta del Progreso 1, 18009 Granada
Pasteleria El Sol on Calle Alhamar in Granada is the long-running confiteria of Granadina hojaldres and honey-glazed pestinos near the Centro.
Tip: The pestinos rotate Christmas to Easter; the rest of the year run hojaldre and roscas.
Worth the queue: Pestino glazed with honey and aniseed
Convento de las Comendadoras de Santiago in the Albayzin of Granada sells cloistered-nun convent sweets through a turn, with bizcochos and yemas baked daily.
Tip: Ring the buzzer; the nuns pass the order through a wooden turn so there is no face-to-face contact.
Worth the queue: Bizcochos and yemas through the convent turn
Casa Pasteles on Plaza Larga in Granada is the Albaicin pasteleria with piononos, eclairs and savoury pan y tomate breakfasts in the heart of the old quarter.
Tip: Breakfast queues form before 10:00; the piononos are baked at the obrador on Horno del Moral and arrive fresh each morning.
Worth the queue: Piononos and pan y tomate at breakfast
Horno de Encarnacion on Calle Almona in Granada works the traditional wood-fired horno baking hornazos with chorizo and boiled egg every morning.
Tip: Hornazos sell out by 11:00 on Saturdays; the working-day mollete bag is the safer late-morning order.
Worth the queue: Hornazo with chorizo and boiled egg
Convento de San Bernardo in Granada sells boxed convent sweets through the turn, olive-oil mantecados and yemas de Santa Teresa baked by cloistered nuns.
Tip: Pre-order by phone for Christmas surtido boxes; smaller mantecado packets are walk-in only.
Worth the queue: Mantecados de oliva and yemas de Santa Teresa
Pasteleria Flor de Lis on Calle San Anton in Granada is the modern patisserie working French technique, with macarons, fruit tarts and a viennoiserie counter.
Tip: Closed Mondays; the lemon tart and macarons are the consistent orders, the macarons baked daily.
Worth the queue: Macarons and viennoiserie tarts
