Rico Pan Bakery Salvadoreno

Had Banana Bread Pudding… it was good, rich & only slightly sweet.

Very friendly, great customer service, delicious to pastries .
Went here to order rosca de los Reyes and where so excited to be asked how many babies we wanted in it !
Also they had a sample of the rosca to taste before buying .
The empanadas were great happy to know I don’t have To only go to pan lido for my favorite salvadorean pastry

I am Salvadoran & I have had a hard time finding sweet bread that actually tastes like the ones back home. But, this place actually have some legit Salvadoran bread. This is my to-​go place when I feel like eating something sweet. Their bread is tasty and you can actually differentiate which is which by the taste and not on how they look like. The prices are OK for SF. You can actually find a variety of goodies from El Salvador and not just sweet bread.
Thanks for bringing un pedacito de mi tierra!

Stumbled upon this place while walking around Mission Street. And boy was it a delight!
The bakery smell is what draws you in. Don’t resist, give in to it and give this place a try.
We ended up picking up a few items from the wide selection they had to offer. Some muffins, cakes, cookies and cream flan.
The muffins were really good, not too sweet yet tasty. Best eaten slightly warm. The cakes and cookies were alright, not too sweet. The cream flan with the slightly burnt crust is also a must try.
Haven’t tried their breads yet. On my list for my 3^rd visit.
They even have a couple of small tables to enjoy these things while they are warm. They have coffee as well, but would be recommended to bring your own coffee to pair with the baked items here if you plan to sit down, relax and rewind for some time at this place.

Woooo este pan si es salvadoreño y la persona q lo atiende muy amable hicimos nuestro viaje de vallejo hacia san francisco pero valio la pena y los tamales woo yummi excelente bendiciones y q siga adenlante este negocio!!!

******BEWARE OF ROACHES******
No lie… I just saw a roach crawling on the bread.
I was going to make my selection when all of a sudden. Ew! I walked out but quickly walked back in the let the guy know what I saw and he looked like he could care less. I’ll be contacting the health department of sf on Monday.

The smell of heavenly baked goods led my nose to this place. Gone by a million times and finally went in today. Wow. Talked to the owner who walked me through the greatest hits, and I picked out the bread pudding, the quesadilla (the one with the sesame seeds on top) and the pastelito – I got the cookie stuffed with guava.
3^rd place: the cookie. Good, buttery, and the guava filling didn’t taste too synthetic, I guess?
2^nd place: bread pudding. Dense and moist – it’s a huge brick of eggs, cream and raisins. Delicious!
1^st place: quesadilla. Agree with another reviewer that it is a bit of a sour cream cake – fantastically light and delicious and that zing of sesame seeds takes this to another level.
The owner went on to say that everything is ONLY from El Salvador (though it was clear they make American pastries – there are turnovers and donuts in the cases). I was pretty stoked, as I love seeing treats and eats with regional or national flair. For $ 6.60 and a hefty serving of the quesadilla and bread pudding, I thought the price was right.

so yummy and cheap, open early and open until 8

Authentic Salvadorean Sweet bread. Love this place! Best pan dulce ever!!! Place is clean, affordable and delicious. The guys working there are super sweet and kind and very welcoming! Having other authentic salvadorean food products is a major plus! The cheeses they carry from the brand Petacon is a must if you are a cheese love! Cheese with loroco flower is the best! I highly recommend this place.

Been coming here for many years, and it never gets old. I’m full Salvy, and most of their pastries taste really authentic. If you want to have some good bread, try the Maria Luisa (it’s the pink one with cream), or their Semita Alta (the one that has pineapple on the bottom, with a big layer of bread on top). You can’t go wrong with this place, i absolutely love it.

I’m lucky enough to moving right across the street from this place. Just standing on Mission when they are baking is going to add ten pounds to me. It smells so good and I have tried several of their different pastries and I’ve never been disappointed. To top it off it priced well. I currently work across the street from a bakery that’s very good but $ 4.00 for a muffin can get steep. Rico Pan is very reasonable.

passed by here accidentally.
I always love to try new places especially desert item.
a very friendly guy working there. if you are unsure of something he even let you taste it.
lots of selection, I tried a big loaf of overbaked bread and pinapple stuffed pastry. it’s good I will go back again.

This place is awful! The pan dulce doesnt taste authentic at all. The cream inside the empanadas is dry and sticky which means it has been left out overnight! YUCK! This place doesnt seem too clean either. Go to Pacitas panaderia on Mission and Persia better. The only goo thing about this place is that they have public restroom

Don’t be intimidated.
I had no idea what the items were, so I just pointed to two of them. I can’t tell you what I had, but I can say that one had a hard crunchy caramel coating and was filled with cream (like sweet whipped cream). It was in the refrigerated section. The other was a dense cake with a thin layer of cream (like custard, maybe) in the middle.
The man behind the counter was very nice and at these reasonable prices, why not just try something?
I will be back!

I would *live* at Rico Pan if I could. Actually, it almost feels like I do because the great smells travel onto my street and I get excited every time I inhale a good whiff of the glorious pastries. I love the apple turnovers and the custard filled pie thingys. They have cakes too! Just ask for help and they will point you in the right direction.

Just follow your nose!
After a random urban hike with a few friends, our noses drew us into this place with piles of cookies in the window. We had NO idea what we were ordering and so I ended up choosing the «quesadilla» which looked like a mini cake (sesame on top). The lady behind the counter suggested it as her favorite as well.
Didn’t know what to expect. Sweet? Savory…
BEST pastry EVER. Dense, fluffy, moist, crispy outside… I devoured it pretty quickly. (oh yes, and it’s a sweet one, but not too sweet)
There were many other tasty looking treats.
I’ll be back :]

I don’t know if the guy at the counter was just trying to offload this particular pastry, or if it was a major money maker or if he just personally really loved it. I prefer to think he genuinely, indeed, loved it and was thrilled that I had walked in when it was still warm. It was a thing of beauty, if not to behold (pretty plain looking) but certainly wonderful to taste. Hard to describe; a ring of pineapple on top, a maraschino cherry, and er… a sizeable round cake (enough for 2 people) that’s deliciously crispy on the outside and very, very moist and dense on the inside? Salvadoran pineapple rightside up cake? I have no idea.
Anyway, the guy was both friendly and insistent that I try it, and since nothing else screamed «try me, try me!» I got it, and I’m happy I did. Certainly among the best $ 2 (+tip) that I spent in SF :-)

Mmmm, if you haven’t tried this place — please go and feel free to thank me later. If you have had Latin American style pastries, you will love Rico Pan.
Although I see them selling a lot of Salvadoreno bread, I personally like the pastelitos. Baked little mini pastries filled with pineapple, apple and custard. Yum, yum and more yum. I like them hot.
My friend Jillian and I went in the other day and went for the pastelitos and a bavarian crème filled churro. We split that, because everyone knows that sharing is caring AND half a pastry is half the calories!

I have no idea what it was I got cause nothing had tags on it and apparently everything has Pineapple according to the dude behind the counter… whatever it was… was killer.
i had three small cookies that looked like empanadas but one had a custard filling, the other two had the «pineapple» (I put it in quotes cause it tasted nothing like pineapple but was tasty.)
I also had this horseshoe shaped pastry that did in fact have pineapple in it… I thought because of the way it looked it was going to be hard and crunchy but instead it was flaky and soft… oh man… big love to that snacky cake.
I also had what looked like a large but thin slice of cake… again with Pineapple in it, it had a red top with sugar on it… good stuff.
Check this place out if you can… the eats are good and it was very affordable. For 5 pieces of cake it was 4.00.

I love pound cake. An employee of my parents purchased us two loaves of the Semita Alta de Pina– Which is essentially a pound cake with pineapple jam filling.
What I like about this pound cake that is that light and fluffy but stiff enough as a pound cake is supposed to be, to where it doesn’t break apart on you.
It was also oh so sweet with pineapple jam flavoring combined in a brown sugar and molasses crust both on the top and the bottom of the cake. I loved the crust and its crispy texture to compliment the soft cakey-​ness of the middle.
I have yet to pay an in-​store visit to this little bakery, and I would like to try their other baked goods one day. But this Pineapple Pound Cake definitely left me wanting more.

A few months ago, I walked into an old looking Salvadorean bakery. The items didn’t have signs or prices so I walked out confused. Rico Pan is like that though their goods looked more appealing than the other bakery I went to and it’s in the Salvadorean part of town. They’ve got cakes, little fruit pies, loaves of bread, cookies, churros, sandwiches (these sounded like regular sandwiches like corned beef), muffins, and even heart-​shaped Valentine’s cookies.
I was hoping that the guy behind the counter could help enlighten me. He was friendly but had a hard time explaining what some of the things were. Sorry, I don’t know the proper names for what I saw.
I picked out a cupcake with a big white swirl covered w/​sprinkles and a huge triangular wedge of cake — 2 pieces for $ 1.75. Yay, it’s cheap.
* Cupcake: definitely far from fancy but not bad. The yellow cake was firm, plain and not too sweet. It was dry but not horrible. The swirl wasn’t buttercream frosting but it was a chewy marshmallow meringue (unexpected). Interesting.
* Triangle cake: tasted like your basic butter poundcake, firm, a little fluffy though dense, not too sweet. Would be nice with coffee or tea.
The baked goods I tried tasted very basic.
I spotted some unfamiliar items in the fridge. It’s definitely an interesting place and about to become more interesting. They’re about to get POLLO CAMPERO. I saw the Campero sign and asked about it. I’ve never heard of it but then I looked it up (
). It’s huge. Latin fried chicken. They even have a location in Shanghai and soon Disney World (the fact that I haven’t heard of it makes me feel like I’ve been living under a rock), but I think this is apparently the FIRST in the Bay Area. «Long considered a Latin American treasure with more than 300 locations in 12 countries around the world, Pollo Campero opened its first U.S. restaurant in 2002.» Could be big news for some and I had to share it with Unilocalers.
P. S. There isn’t any seating inside or out
CASH ONLY