Ruby's Pan Dulce — Restaurant in Sunnyvale

I have improved my review because I like their Pan Dulce. I CRAVE it. It is the best in the area. I still probably wouldn't order a cake here due to communication issues, but the product they produce is EXCELLENT.

If they could get their process down for non-Spanish speakers to get an accurate cake order, I would improve my rating.

For the best Pan Dulce in the area, I recommend this place.

Old review The 2 stars are for my family's cake order. Ordered a Tres Leche cake ahead of time and requested Happy Birthday to be written on it. When we went to pick up the order, there was no writing on cake and no way for anyone to do so. We left with a cake with no writing for a birthday the same day. 😕

This place would get 5 stars for the quality of their baked goods ( the best Tres Leche cake I have had and the bread and conchas are on point), but not for fulfilling a proper cake order.

It helps to know Spanish when walking into this...

I visited this place for the first time even though I go by pretty regularly on bike rides. It provides a good counterpoint for dessert to the taqueria at the other end of the strip mall. Perhaps that's what Ruby had in mind.

It took me a minute of watching the regulars to figure out what I was doing. When you go in, you grab a tray and some tongs and pick out what delicious treats you want to buy and take home with you. My wife got choco flan, and I got a lovely looking croissant with some kind of filling. Both treats were very good. I would never have thought of putting flan on top of chocolate cake, and it was a bit of a taste adjustment but I ended up liking it quite a bit. The croissant I had was filled with vanilla custard and it was also very good. And their prices were very reasonable.

The young men staffing the counter were very friendly and helpful....

After a trip to Mexico, our world had opened up to the possibility of bakeries or panaderias on every street corner, offering a seemingly similar array of a multitude of breads. We stumbled upon one right in our neighborhood and we had to go crazy! This place is a cute, quaint, unpretentious place with old wooden cases stacked with trays of varieties of bread with old paper labels beneath each one with the Mexican name, the English equivalent, and the contents. Like: "Orejas, Ears; wheat, sugar... ". Mr Scrooge would agree he prices are more than reasonable! A solid serving of each bread-type is 80cents to 1.5$. Go splurge...