La Popular Bakery — Restaurant in San Antonio

I have no idea how this place has anything over 3 Stars.

I live 5 minutes away and I've tried this place three times now (this year, last year and the year before) and they are MESSING UP BIG TIME.

The Biscuits? Always taste old, moist (not in a good way, more like on the verge of becoming moldy) and they're dense and bland, sometimes tasting like Baking Powder.

The Creme filled pastries that have a Vanilla-Pudding-like cream inside? THEY WERE OK LAST TIME, NOW THEY TASTE LIKE SOMETHING CHEMICAL.

It's so bad you HAVE to spit it out.

It's like they got a bunch of Baking soda thrown into the cream mix.

Avoid anything from here that's filled with cream. I've tried the "Horns" and another Cannoli (Italian dessert) looking item using that cream and the taste from the cream is downright appalling and it takes forever to leave the tongue even if you down a bunch of water afterward.

The wedding cookies last time were okay.

THIS TIME in 2024, they used so much lard or other oil within the recipe that it resulted in the most greasy wedding/powdered cookie I have ever tasted. The powder wont even stay on because of how greasy it is, it'll just get soaked through.

If you try to eat more than 3 in a row you'll be losing your grip on that third cookie like it's a wet bar of soap. Absolutely insane how they figured out how to mess up such a simple-to-make-cookie and they're running A BAKERY. Like bro, that's a bop move lol.

(THE GOOD STUFF) The ONLY THINGS I would get from here are the Jelly filled pastries (Pineapple or Strawberry) or the Butter Pecan cookies which are on point, super soft, and pretty big.

Maybe any of the cheap (also bland af) looking dry cookies with Sprinkles or Sprinkle dust on them would be a safe bet, but that's about it. The donuts are trash and seem old too. Avoid.

I get my pastries from the Meat Market nearby instead now and they're all on point. That place deserves a 4 or more, NOT Poplar Bakery.

Those people manage to run a whole grocery section that's always clean and well stocked, they make great pork stew meat AND all their pastries are on point.

These people at Poplar Bakery can't even run a simple bakery.

I make better buttermilk biscuits than them on any day and I ain't even no white country boy for starters, I'm Mexican just like these fools.

Whoever's baking back there should be taking out trash and washing dishes cause they don't know what they're doing...

Don't go to this establishment. Been there 5 times now to try & get a job which I'm more than qualified to do (bake tortillas very well & know how to handle money). The same lady I ask has taken down my number 2 times & 3 times told me they weren't hiring besides their "Now Hiring" sign. 2 times when I asked she turned to her friend & spoke in the Spanish language which I don't know & then dismissed me. Told them once that I would be nice enough to take down the "Now Hiring" sign just to show them I had some initiative but they said "don't" in a serious manner. I just went in & asked for the 5th time then just asked for the stores number & she refused to give it to me. She said she had it but couldn't give it to me. She has 2 new people working there & it's not surprising they aren't black since they don't have any African-Americans working at any of their establishments.

This review isn't about the quality of their food, it's about some college kid trying to get a part time job at a place that won't hire him & the only thing they know about him is how he looks & he...

Some of my earliest memories are from this bakery, going back over thirty years. I don't live in San Antonio anymore but every time I go back I make sure to stop here and it is just this immediate rush of nostalgia. This place is like a time capsule, if it has changed at all in the past 33 years I certainly can't tell. It is hit-and-miss when it comes to getting a person working the counter who understands but even a non-Spanish speaker like myself can get by by just pointing. They seem used to it. Everything here is delicious and tastes like home. And super cheap too! I always come back to Austin with like two bags loaded with pan dulce and it...