El Dorado Bakery — Restaurant in Albuquerque

Walking in on a Sunday around 11 pm, the place is PACKED! Largely Hispanic demographic and everybody assumes you speak Spanish which is awesome. Better yet, word of their amazing Mexican food, pastries, and service has been spreading and it is turning the place into quite the multi-cultural establishment. They have a massive Masonry Oven in-house and bake the white-bread rolls literally minutes before you get them. You can only order menudo on the weekends (traditional) and by default you get a white-bread roll. The menudo is savory, spicy, and hardly needs any of the condiments that can be added to taste such as oregano, key lime, and onions. The burritos are a hidden New Mexico gem. Eggs, potatoes, chile, and beans. All usual ingredients but somehow superior. The Mexican Pan de Dulce is baked daily and sells quickly. They have conchas, donas, muffins and other pastries that I recognize and enjoy but can't properly name and it's only .75 cents a piece. Family owned and operated, they are a well oiled machine. They operate like clockwork which makes customers happy and keeps them coming back. The many many regulars say they don't go anywhere else....

If you want to feel like you just entered a bakery in Mexico, you just found the right place. This place reminded me of my travels through Mexico. You can tell the place is a little run down, but honestly it is what gives this place its charm. The workers were very nice and helpful, the bread here was very flavorful, but the true reason for my visit on a Saturday morning was for the menudo. The portions were big and came with a fresh baked bolillo loaf. The soup stock was very flavorful and had a slight heat to it. Adding some more Chile flakes and lime and all of a sudden you have the Mexican hangover cure. As soon as my bowl arrived, the atmosphere came to life with some live singing by one of the employees. Some breakfast and a show for under $10, this really...

Amazing. The place was bustling on a Sunday morning, before the after-church crowd could settle in and before the mid-hangover crowd could be awake. Standard Mexican bakery fare; yellow-coloured dough in the doughnuts, really pure selection. 1.20-1.60$/piece. Had the chicharron (soft) burrito; amazing spice, good quality chicharron, fresh handmade tortilla. 7$ Will be coming back for the savory side of things as I really liked the spice level and the burrito. Not sure this style of bakery is my kind of thing but I love what the location does for this area, love the low prices, love that my burrito got picked up by someone else and they immediately got me another, love that I can practice my Spanish while people are being cool because it's obviously not my...