Panaderia La Azteca — Restaurant in Columbus

Love the pan dulce from this place! Great taste and not overly sweet. Unfortunately can’t say the same for their cakes. My husband wanted to surprise me with a tres leches cake. Unfortunately the cake he ordered was not the cake we received. Definitely not worth the price he paid. Tres leches cake should be sponge cake and be moist from a mixture of sweet milk. We received a double layered regular cake with strawberry filling. The flavor was not there not even the kids liked it and they love cake. We were charged for a 1/2 sheet cake and we received something closer to 1/4 sheet cake. Very disappointed. I give this place 4 stars because the young lady that attended me when I went to resolve this issue was professional and nice. The owner wasn’t there so she called her for me. Now the owner tried to get smart with me. She said as you see the cake was packaged in a carton box as the cake can not be moist because the box would get wet…. ummm we have bought tres leches cakes and they usually come in a plastic container to help the carton box not get wet. So I felt that her response made her sound unprofessional and with lack of knowledge. If you’re offering that cake you should have the right packaging for it, in my opinion… this place gets 4 stars because the young lady was helpful and professional and because the pan dulce is also really good. But stay away from their cakes would...

An unknown local GEM!

First impression as you walk inside this establishment is the smell and the presentation of all the different pan dulce. It smells heavenly and the breads all look impressive. Here's the only thing. Different breads are fresh at different times. If you are a beginner at shopping for Mexican pan dulce, I recommend only buying a few pieces at a time. If you are an expert, you have an airtight container to put your bread in to preserve it's freshness once you get home. If you want to try a certain pastry when it first comes out. Simply ask any of the employees what time they come out. They will be happy to serve you. I recommend trying the conchas! This is probably one of the most famous pan dulces out there. And one of the most delicious. It's good with coffee, hot cocoa, chocolate milk, or just regular milk.

Aside from pan dulce, this establishment also sells a bread called bolillo. These are almost like a French bread hoagie bun. And let me tell you. They are amazing. I brought some home and heated them up and they tasted soooo fresh! Azteca also sells taleras. This is a whole bun (uncut) that is what they make the famous tortas with. (Mexican sandwiches) They sell pre-made cold cut tortas there as well. I personally prefer a recently heated bolillo to a talera but everyone's different. This place seriously holds a special place in...

Let me start with the good…. The pan dulce is delicious. Now if you want to order a tres leches cake, I recommend you DON’T! I ordered a cake and when I went to pick it up, it was not marked as paid, which I did!!! I looked for the receipt and was unable to find it, the lady looked in her computer and finally found where k had paid, I lost almost 30 minutes of my time to pick up a cake! Then to make things worse the cake was uneven, one side barely had any cake and was filled in with the icing!!!!! It seems there was more icing than cake or even strawberry filling! I was not impressed by this cake! Buy your tres leches cake from someone else, even Sam’s 3 leches cake was...