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Today: 6:30 am - 7:00 pm
64 Years
in Business
Amenities:
Offers outdoor seatingWheelchair accessibleGood for groupsGood for families
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Best Cakes. Best Service. Best Price. For over 10 years I have come to Porto's for cakes.
$0.45 chocolate cookies that are delicious.
Just get the potato balls, and regret that you've spent your whole life not eating them until now.
I love the pastries and sandwiches.
Love their guava pie very much.........
Best pastries in town! I love the Tres Leches cake and the potato balls!!!
Holy cow - this place has the best pastries in town and the prices are great. The lunch salad with the mango dressing is also great. Try the rellenitos - plantains stuffed with black beans and rolled in sugar. Absolutely amazing!
Food tastes great, drinks are great. pastries and desserts are bomb! Just one thing - they took my order with a piece of paper which was correctly handed over to their behind the counter folks. Then, they forgot two things off my order - a chorizo bfast sandwich and my chai latte. Then as my bf got his food I asked where mine was and apparently it was not ordered. They had to put my order in separately, and I had to pay for it separately. you'd think they'd at least give me a free drink or something. So I had to wait another 10 minutes for my food...
Friendly service plus great, unique foods. Hard to beat!
Awesome place, delicious, delicious and again delicious cakes. Couple of weeks ago a friend of mine invited me to this place , it was love at first sight :) beautiful designed and delicious cakes, will be back for sure
Be aware that you may be confused the first time you enter. There are usually tons of people here especially on weekend mornings and they are ordering everything from sandwiches and meat pies to bread and huge cakes! The line can be long, and you will wait for atleast 30 minutes between entering and leaving (if you are picking up). You have to steal a table - it's first come first serve. On the whole, this bakery produces some fantastic items, and the rest is atleast above average quality. Furthermore, they sell so much because their prices are fantastic. And they are friendly!
Yes, as 8 million people have said before me, their cakes and pastries are amazing and delicious. But going there for lunch is like hitting Ikea on a Saturday. It's almost always a mistake.
1. You always have to stand in line, no matter what day of the week.
2. If you order any lunch food, it takes forever. Twenty minutes is too long to wait for a salad.
3. The salads are lame. I had the Porto's House salad the other day, which was a plate of bag lettuce and a sparse sprinkling of toppings (3 cherry tomatoes, 4 slices of avocado, a teaspoonful of black beans). The dressing is good though.
4. The sandwiches come on so-so bread. C'mon, it's a bakery, your bread should be extra delicious! But it's not.
5. The coffee is bad and the smoothies are so much better next door at Da Juice Bar.
6. They serve everything on huge plastic disposable plates with plastic cutlery. It makes me sick to see so much garbage being created each day. (Panera across the street serves much better sandwiches and salads on real plates!)
Like their cakes and bakery products. Very affordable. Didn't like their fried appetizers but still a good lunch spot. My fav is Parisian chocolate cake.
I come here too often for the pastries, which are really good but somewhat short of awesome.
Porto's is a local Favorite in Glendale/Burbank because of the great variety of wonderful food and fast service. They are known for their Potato Balls and I also love their ham and cheese croissants and red velvet cupcakes.
Been going to this bakery since I was little and the food is still SO GOOD!!!!
Details
Phone: (818) 956-5996
Address: 315 N Brand Blvd, Glendale, CA 91203
Website: http://www.portosbakery.com
More Info
Quality is the number one ingredient in everything we do!
- General Info
- Tracing its origins to the year 1960, when the Porto family made the tough decision to leave their home in Manzanillo, Cuba. After living through the drastic changes that were taking place around them, they requested permission to leave the country. Immediately Raul Sr. was terminated from his job and sent away to manual labor for the duration of the wait period. Wife, Rosa Porto was also let go. Knowing that it may take years to be able to leave the country, Rosa found herself alone and having to find a means to support her three children Betty, Raul Jr., and Margarita. Rosa, always a talented cake maker, with a passion for baking, entrenched herself in perfecting her recipes and began selling her delicious cakes to friends and neighbors not realizing that she was also building herself a loyal customer base. When the family finally emigrated from Cuba to California, they had not much more than the clothes on their backs, Raul Sr.’s strong work ethic, Rosa’s exceptional baking skills, and a dream for a better life. Soon after the plane landed, Rosa realized that her reputation had preceded her, and met her first customer just as she got off the plane. Raul Sr. took a job as a mechanic and after work delivered Rosa’s cakes. These were hard times, but the family was now in a country filled with limitless opportunities and their dream for a better future became more real as the years passed. Rosa continued on with her cake business and when their home could no longer accommodate the increased demand, opened a little 300-square foot bakery on Sunset Blvd, in the Echo Park area of Los Angeles. From day one, the place was busy, serving close to 50 customers a day. After tirelessly working two jobs, Raul Sr. left his latter job at Van De Kamp’s and joined Rosa full time. Meanwhile, their children Betty, Raul Jr., and Margarita managed to maintain their studies and learn the different parts of the business; baking, decorating, food preparation, customer service, and finances. In the 1980’s, after graduating college, Betty, Raul Jr. and Margarita stayed on with the business each taking on more specific roles. Raul Jr. took on managing the finances and alongside his long-time co-worker and friend, Tony Salazar, focused on new product development, production improvements, and quality control. Margarita joined her mom in the cake decorating area, and Betty managed alongside her father assisting customers. Rosa’s Cuban cakes were soon joined by French mousses, Italian sweets, and international savories. As customers flocked to the bakery demanding countless quantities of Cheese Rolls™, Refugiados™-guava and cheese strudels, and the infamous Potato Ball™ , space became critical. A move was made to a 2,000-square foot facility in Glendale and six years later to one double in size. The bakery continued to grow and more employees where hired to handle the demand for its increasingly broad line of cakes, desserts, and savories. The years proved Rosa’s formula successful. With the entire family’s effort, expansion to a 20,000-square foot facility took place in the 1990’s. Later further expansion included a Café with a menu showcasing signature Cuban sandwiches and lunch favorites. Rosa used her talents into a means of supporting her family and the business she began has turned into one of the most unique family-owned businesses in Southern California. Rosa Porto is now retired, but her recipes and her high standards remain, including her motto, “quality is the number one ingredient in everything we do”. Porto’s Bakery & Café now serves thousands of customers
- Services/Products
- Bakery, Cakes, Cafe, Catering
- Payment method
- cash, all major credit cards
- Neighborhood
- City Center
- Amenities
- Fancy Platters, Pastries, Savory Platters, Sandwich Platters, Dipped Strawberries
- Other Link
- Categories
- Other Information
Good For Family: Yes
Good For Groups: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Take Out: Yes
Outdoor Seating: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Parking: Paid, Street, Lot, Self, On Site, Valet
Bike Parking: Yes
Cuisines: Cuban, Family Style, Sandwiches, Caribbean, Latin American, Dessert, Diner, Cafe, Pastries
Takes Reservations: No