Starbread Bakery — Restaurant in Chula Vista

Starbread is ADDICTING! Everytime my bf travels to San Francisco I would ask him to bring me back a box of 60. Then we found out there’s one in OC but it’s not the same. Now, there’s one in SD and we came on the initial soft opening. Got there 10 minutes before open and the lines moved pretty fast. We were there for a total of 50 minutes.

While we were in line, they gave out a bag of mini churro donuts as samples. That was really nice.

This location sells starbread, bread, cornbread, cookies, cupcakes, and donuts. It mirrors the one in OC but the one in SF also sells savory food. For now, SD is only selling sweets.

People before us were getting multiple boxes of starbread but then they put a limit of either a box of 15 or 25 per person in order to accommodate everyone. We got a box of 25, ube donut, sugar donut, guava malasada, and chocolate croissant.

The chocolate croissant was hot out of the oven. Super fresh and I love that were generous with the chocolate filling. The exterior was not a typical light and fluffy puff pastry or french-like but doughy.

The ube donut was basically the glazed frosting on top. It was really sweet and my least favorite but the donut texture compares to Krispy Kreme. It’s light and melts in your mouth.

It was my first time trying a malasada. It’s a Portuguese fried dough. I’ve been to Portugal and had their egg tart but never the fried dough so I can’t really compare it to anything. It just tastes like a donut with fillings.

Then of course the starbread here tastes almost identical to the one in SF. I saw at least 3 people help roll these so you get different variations and sizes. As well as the amount of inner custard was not consistent. Overall the flavors are there, it’s addicting because it’s small and you can pop it in your mouth. It’s just butter and sugar.

Give this place a try and don’t get less than 25. Trust me, you’ll want more. It taste best when it’s hot but you can also microwave it for 10-15 seconds and it tastes just like it did out the oven. I don’t like to toast it because it’ll burn due to the sugar...

The establishment is nice , clean and simple they do have a variety of goods. I loved the bread itself, however everything we got that had a filling (which was everything we ordered , minus the senorita bread,) it just didn’t taste good to me. The bread / donut itself surrounding the malasadas and the bread rolls we got are soo yummy, 😋 but once I tasted the filling it just seemed so artificial and not really made in house (not saying that’s the case, idk it’s just how the quality of the fillings tasted.) My husband had ordered , Coconut cream bread and Dulce de leche bread . I enjoyed the senorita especially when it’s nice and warm. Parking is free & is shared with other businesses but there’s plenty of spots to park. Ordering was...

So glad that there is now a Starbread in SD. Being from the San Francisco Bay Area, the location in Newark unfortunately closed.

The service here at the Chula Vista location was excellent. The young lady was very friendly, greeted us right away and conversed with us for a few minutes while we were waiting for our order of fresh and pipin warm seniorita bread.

If you’re not familiar with seniorita bread, it is similar to a petite croissant with the dough on the heavier side. It is warm, sweet and very buttery. It would pair well with a nice cup of coffee or hot chocolate for that sweet tooth.

Give it a try, you just...