La Espiga De Oro

Pan super rico de gran calidad. Buen servicio. Delicious bread great quality and service traveling 7+ hours and enjoying this bread makes my trip complete love it

Maybe it’s because I just began my exploration of panaderias in OC but this place is definitely a great one!
I have been here twice and have enjoyed both times.
The bread is stocked and they have an assortment of treats! You can get slices of their cake or whole cakes and they also have Wheat rolls. Cool place to get that pan de dulce

Are you kidding me?! Way overrated… Does it have such high ratings because it’s the only panaderia around? That doesn’t count. The bread here sucks and way overpriced! Coworkers are rude as hell. Place is dirty. You’re better off driving to Santa Ana to get bread. I can’t believe the ratings for this place… Go here if you want to waste your money. Never again… If you want good bread… try going to San Sivar Panaderia on Harbor/​19^th. It’s literally down the street. Great bread. Great pupusas next door at their restaurant as well. Service isn’t all that great but they aren’t rude… Needless to say, I will not return to this overpriced dump!

I came here one morning because of all the rave reviews; what a mistake! This dumpy little hole in the infested with flies. The door was left open and there were fresh pastries cooling in rolling racks. They looked good until I saw flies crawling on them, with more just buzzing around looking for a nice place to land.
So I figured maybe I’ll try something in the self serve case, since I just had to try something from a place with such wonderful reviews. I opened a door and saw flies crawling on the pastries inside the case too. Gross!
Then I thought, maybe I’ll get something from the case behind the counter where the cashier rings up customers, maybe those will be okay. So I ordered a couple of those, but while the cashier left them on the tray to ring them up, a fly landed right on my cookies! She just waved it off like it was nothing and told me my total.
This place is a joke, the workers have no sense of sanitation. Flies transmit numerous pathogens by landing on food, crapping on it, and by spitting up enzymes to break the food down before they eat it. Unless you don’t mind fly poop, fly vomit, and bacteria with your cookies, go right ahead and check this place out. But I know for sure I’ll never come here again.

We had the Qubilete for a Birthday party today! They were amazing! They are like little mini cheesecakes but better! We will definitely go back to try something else too!

Called to ask if they take catering orders and they said yes and hung up. I called back and said — «hey you hung up, but I would actually like to place a catering order». The lady on the other end of the phone … «Call back at 8 when manger is here.» Hangs up again. RUDE. No thank you.

Best bakery ever! Great prices and go early in the morning to get a sensory overload.

Great customer service. He even gave us samples. And when we asked what their most popular product was, he let us in the kitchen to show that they were still baking them. Everything is freshly baked. The pastries are amazing and you can smell the baked goods from the parking lot. Plus they’re so inexpensive. .50 cents for an empanada. Bought 40 pcs for just $ 20!

The best Mexican pan in town. Prices are descent and the pan taste amazing. My favorite is the little pineapple basket thingy. Tres leches cake is ok, not the best I’ve had. This place is a hidden jewel.

Came here on Saturday evening for the first time. I got a «Tres Leches» cake, I asked one of the girls if it was fresh and she stated it was. I was looking forward to a piece of cake but soon found my self extremely disappointed. Cake was not even close to tres Leches, it was dry. Pan dulce was ok that’s why I rate this bakery 2 stars.

This little hole-​in-​the-​wall is truly a treasure!
I work in CM and this spot always fixes that pan dulce craving.
If you go right when they open (6am) you’ll find delicious warm bread, yummy pastries at the front counter and warm bolillo.
They also have cakes which are really good too! I picked up 2 small cakes ($ 10 for a 6″-7″ cake) for my cousin’s anniversary and they were so delicious! One was 3 leches with peaches and the other mocha nut. I don’t know which I liked more; they were both so good and so moist. My cousin and her husband loved them!
The employees are friendly and most importantly, their bread is yummy. Go try it!

YES this place is GOLD
For some reason Pan Dulce in Mexico is a bit different than in the U.S. and most Pan Dulce here is OK at best it just doesn’t measure up to what you get in Mexico.
La Espiga de Oro is pretty close OR close enough to give them Two Thumbs Up…
Good variety, everything I picked up was FRESH the only negative thing I can say is the prices are a bit higher than normal, then again it’s not located in East LA and I imagine rent is a bit higher.
Pan Dulce —
put’s a smile on your face… well it does mine!

Rude little witch at the counter but who cares bc you are in and out of here in 5 minutes after stocking up on fluffly sweet mexican bread. BUT whatever you do, don’t forget the stuff behind the window display. They have little empanadas and taquitos filled with pineapple and apricot (chabacano). It’s a bit pricey for mexican standards but I guess rent is more expensive as you get closer to the beach.

Eating an AWESOME assortment of pastries and breads from «La Espiga De Oro!» This place is a real jewel!

There are a few panaderias here in Santa Maria but La Espiga De Oro in Costa Mesa is one of the best. Each business trip I’m requested to bring pastries back home.
The location of the bakery is in a strip mall with plenty of parking. They have good variety of baked goods. Traditional and authentic Mexican bread — pan dulce. A bakery were you take a tray and tongs and pick your favorite breads. Some of my favorites are Conchas, Cuernos, Elotitos, and Chilindrinas.
Cash only, I haven’t tried any of the cakes but they look very good.
La Espiga De Oro panaderia has some of the best pan dulce around. Very clean and friendly service.

Since my love affair of panaderias began with one in San Marcos (I’ve written the review just don’t know what it’s called), I’ve been on the hunt to find the next best one. This place is the BOMB!!! It’s super clean, open until 10PM, I think accepts cc’s (there’s a sign on the door), and is super super super good! I brought cash with me since the previous reviews stated cash only. Had the leche cake thing, some cookies, and the red looking sandwich thing that had coconut on it and some jam thing inside. Oh yeah… for how much? $ 2.50??? WHAT??? Yes please, that’s cheaper than frozen yogurt for one person… Coming back here again. Definitely!

While stopping by the Alejandros for my late night Carne Asada fries fix I saw that this place was open and there was quite a bit of people inside. Curious I walked inside and to my amazement they was freshly cooked sweet breads placed all in their cabinets. I was a kid in a candy store. I grabbed as much sweetbreads as I could afford. And since they were quite inexpensive I grabbed a lot!
The sweet breads here are very delicious! I will be coming back here a lot more to sample the other things they have.

One of the best Pan de Dulce places in all of OC. It’s older and in a strip mall, but it is tried and true.
Me encantan las empanadas de dulce de leche
Orejas (Palmiers to those farmer’s market folk that don’t know slang for yummy pastries shaped liked ears…*sigh*
I got some fresh rolls this morning too and a savory pastry filled with cheese and jalapenos. I saw a really funny cake witha a guy in swim trunks laying on a beach scene. I really want to see if I can go back and order one for my girlfriend’s 30^th birthday. *evil laugh*
I love this place!

brains… BRAINS! Warm, soft, sweet brains.
While a Zombie has lots of choices when it comes to eating– sometimes you just gotta have what you crave. For me that’s Flan and when I want the best Flan in Orange County for a price too low to publish I go to this way too good to be true Panaderia.
We are French-​Canadian and my mom made Flan from scratch when we were kids and both her and my brother agree that this is the best Flan around. Better than most expensive French restaurants that are going to charge you 8 $ for a piece half as big.
In addition to their Flan they make a unique Ham and Cheese croissant with white Mexican cream cheese and jalapenos.
I also like this chocolate cupcake they make that looks just like a Hostess cake.
They are open early and late which is good cause sometimes you just have to feed the need.
Flan… FLAN… (queue little flan quivering and screaming in fright.)

UPDATED 04-​19-​2008: I’ve been scouring all the panaderias since first coming to this place and believe this when I tell you, no other panaderia compares to La Espiga. This is the only place where I just go weak at the knees for baked goods and those of you who know me know that I don’t fall for any baked goods THAT easily!
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Believe it or not I’ve not actually eaten Mexican baked goods before. For some odd reason unbeknown to even me, I thought they were gonna be sweet like hell. I usually walk into a panaderias and then I ogle the stuff and then take a few deep breaths and then walk out again. That was the extent of my previous relationship with panaderias. BUT NO MORE! Now that I’ve sunk my chompers into a slice of this delicious stuff, I’m proud to say that my Mexican bakery cherry’s been popped and there is no turning back.
I couldn’t believe my tastebuds when I say none of this stuff is overly sweet. I don’t know why I thought they looked super sweet, but they’re completely pleasing to my palate. I have no clue what I ate, but trust me, they were all pretty damn good.
While I didn’t particularly like the one which looked like an empanada with sugar crystals and a custard filling because the outside was too crusty and heavy for me, I did however LOVE the one which looked like a triangular slab of cheesecake and tasted remotely like cheesecake in texture but had no cheesy taste.
Another pastry I tasted looked like a Portuguese egg tart but again didn’t taste eggy to me.
I also got a savory one — a bread with a queso and jalepeno filling — MMMMM it was delicious with the right amount of kick in the creamy goodness.
The best part of all was 6 items only cost $ 5.10 compared to the 3 bucks each we paid for the teenie cupcakes (you know who you are!) and ended up feeding to the garbage can.
I’m sold! I will never enter a panaderia with the same mindset ever again. I think I’m in love!