Pasteleria El Sol is a bakery in Centro Sagrario, 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.
Address: Calle Alhamar 23, 18005 Granada
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
Casa Ysla Piononos in Granada is the in-city outpost of the 1897 Santa Fe pasteleria, where Ceferino Isla invented the pionono to honour Pope Pius IX.
Tip: Six-pack of piononos travels well; takeaway is the norm and the cafeteria seats are limited.
Worth the queue: Pionono with cinnamon sponge and caramelised cream
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
Casa Ysla Piononos in Granada is the in-city outpost of the 1897 Santa Fe pasteleria, where Ceferino Isla invented the pionono to honour Pope Pius IX.
Tip: Six-pack of piononos travels well; takeaway is the norm and the cafeteria seats are limited.
Worth the queue: Pionono with cinnamon sponge and caramelised cream
