Old San Juan Bakery

This week while traveling through Holyoke I decided to stop in at this bakery to pick up a few different items. When I walked in I was excited to see that they had Latin food as well, so I made it a point to grab two of their rice and chicken plates to go. The rice that they serve had chicken in it which was a great concept, the only issue was that the chicken was dry even though the rice was perfect.
When it came time to try their pastries, I purchase their tres leches cake as well as the flan. Both were pretty good and the prices were fairly reasonable. The one place in which this store was lacking was their customer service.
When I walked in it took me forever to get served even though I was the only one there. The employees seemed more content talking rather than taking my order. On top of that while I was ordering, I felt rushed and as if I was burdening them.
In the end the food was OK, the pastries were pretty good, and the service was terrible. Hopefully the next time I drop in it will be a little different.

Is good for finding drinks and similar pastries to the ones in PR, but making sandwiches they get an «F», the only difference between their sandwich «Cubano» and the «Tripleta» is the name on the receipt :^(, the meat is salty and who ever made the sandwich was wearing to much perfume because I I can smell her in the bread, it all going to the trash.

I had been hearing about how great the cuban sandwich at this place was for a while. So, while visiting a friend in the area, I made a trek to downtown Holyoke to try one out!
Food:
Wow… the cubano certainly isn’t healthy, but it’s worth the extra calories! The sandwhich itself is giant. Two people can easily split one. There are two kinds of pork on the cubano. One is similar to carnitas, the other is a more standard ham. It’s a little different than the traditional Cuban. I think this one has a Puerto Rican flair. There are no pickles or mustard and the carnitas type of pork is different. It is still pressed like a panini though.
They have 3 kinds of flan, cheesecake, canoli, and several sweet breads. They also have puerto rican breads. I was really impressed with the variety of baked goods.
Ambience:
This is a bakery with a counter. Don’t expect to eat there if you go during lunch because it’s really packed. They also only have sandwiches until 4:30. It’s definitely primarily Spanish speaking, but you can order in english. There is no menu with prices… just a list of stuff in Spanish on a white board that you can order. The prices are very reasonable though.

HUGE sandwiches, but very mediocre, at best, in taste. They have pan sabao! & their pastries are really good!

After returning from our trip to Puerto Rico, my husband and I thought. how in the world will we get our sweet bread (Pan Sobao) now!!!
Well. we were in luck! This past weekend we were in Holyoke and a friend of ours told us about a place where we can get some awesome bread. Our eyes lit up. we LOVE bread. any kind of bread!
He told us to hit up this place called Old San Juan Bakery. my heart started to race. We were anxious… hoping just maybe they’d have some «pan sobao». Well guess what. they did!!! Yeah. we were in heaven. but not only because of the bread… but because it was a bakery that sold bread and every type of puertorican cakes, cheesecakes, and FLAN! yes, sweettt, creammmyyy, flan! Can we say heaven!
I didn’t give this place a five only because my husband had the pineapple cheesecake and he liked it. but he did say it was a bit dry. But I think it was because he waited til the next day to eat it. Either way. we stuffed ourselves on bread and bought about 2 loafs pairs. Each Bag holds 2 loafs of warm sweet bread. The price wasn’t bad. It was about $ 1.50 each bag. Can I repeat… HEAVEN!
O yeah, by the way, they serve breakfast and lunch.