La Paris Bakery

The bread is pretty good. Watch out though, some of the bread is filled with weird spicy cheese fillings and there is no signs that say this. Once in a while I get bad bread that has been there for days and I don’t notice that it is really hard and I don’t notice until I get home.
My other main issue is that they keep hiking up their prices. Their conchas, panochas and most other basic breads where just $ 0.60 a piece last year. They later did a price hike to $.69. Another one to $.75 and the bread keeps getting smaller.
Another issue is that it isn’t clean. The tongs that grab bread always get placed on the filthy countertop where tons of customers place their hands on and the employees just take a wet towel and give them and the tray a quick wipe with a wet towel. They then place the trays and tongs on the other side of the countertop to be used by the next customer. This goes on forever and I have never seen them actually clean anything or the countertops. The wipe isn’t even a thorough wipe just a quick for-​show wipe.
There is no parking lot. Parking is difficult to find especially because much of it is permit-​only.

El Faro has terrific desserts. Chocoflan, flawless arroz con leche, darling little empanadas. Great stuff. I’m at El Faro once a week and haven’t eaten any of it in months. The doughnuts at La Paris across the street are that good.
Seriously.
They’ve got other stuff which I’m sure is all good and fine, but god damn. Those doughnuts. They’re sort of chinese-​type yeast doughnuts, perfectly risen and fried. It’s like eating a 69 cent cloud of delight, then licking a fog of sugar crystals off your fingers.