Tulcingo Bakery

Amazing Mexican bakery (except for the price!). I felt like I was back in Mexico. HUGE selection of baked goods. And they also sell avocados! 🥑. Pastries run $4 to $5 each. They should sell some coffee to go with the conchas! 🥐

short: great bakery at very reasonable prices (affordable) long: I have been going to this bakery for over one dozen years; almost every time that I go visit my mother. At times, I feel a bit guilty, that despite having a backpack almost full of homemade meals that will last me several days, I sneak into this place before getting on the train to get the sweet cheese bear claw danishes. I can't even wait until I get home. I start eating it while I'm waiting for the train to arrive, and then along the commute, I sneak in a few more bites. I really enjoy them most with coffee in the morning. I take one at a time to the office and know my morning will be delicious. The place is always very clean. It is very spacious, and they offer a wide variety of baked goodies. Highly recommended.

An absolute authentic Mexican bakery from Mexico. I love it

The fruit tart was just HORRIBLE. It was a very thin layer of crust and a MOUNTAIN of CREAM. A fruit tart does not have that filling of cream and definitely not THAT MUCH. Guest left piles of cream. The cream was not even tasty just tasted like a bunch of plain whipped cream.

Im a big fan of conchas, i always come here to get them, it really is nice and sweet as some other places don’t tend to have good bread around here. It is a little pricy but still good every once and a while.

THEY SCAMMED ME. 14 dollars for 3 pastries. Not to mention the desserts tasted terrible. It was so obvious they overcharged me purposely seeing that I was a tourist. Don’t be fooled by the nice atmosphere go to the local bakeries and not this fancy rip off that tastes awful.

I had picked up a cake from here to celebrate my daughters birthday, it had a weird taste to it as if they have their cakes there for days and not fresh . For the cake to be expensive it was a disappointment.

Classic Mexican style bakery offering Mexican pastries, cakes and bread, to eat in or take away. Also specialising in custom celebration cakes. A really enjoyable visit.

Que esta pasando aqui con el pan? Y los precios? Creo que este lugar ya no es el mismo lugar donde encontrabas pan bueno y a buen precio, los precios actuales son ridiculos. $7 dolares por una hojaldra enserio? Por cierto la calidad de estas hojaldras son malisimas, solo le recomiendo al dueño que baje los precios y cambien de panadero oh su negocio desaparecera por falta de clientes. Mejoren su servicio.

Bought a cake here for our anniversary and I felt it was a bit overpriced. I thought to myself ok, this is going to taste great. But I was disappointed. The cake was very dry. For the price point I would expect better. I also try their breads, like the concha and it tasted stale.

The bread is ok but is too EXPENSIVE this place just to be me favorite place to buy Mexican bread but now is overpriced I'm not coming back.

I've only tried the cakes at this place and they are tasty but very very pricey. For the price of their cake you can get 2 a any upscale bakery in the city.

After a delicious dinner in the area we took a walk around the neighbourhood and maybe find dessert. Tulcingo caught our eyes with it's colorful outside. There is a lot of eye candy (& cakes) to look at and to drool over. We brought a bag of samples to take home. The pastries were good but a little dry and too much breading. The place is clean and the service was friendly. There is no place to site inside this large place. It would have been nice to site and enjoy the pastries with coffee. Just grab a metal pan and tongs. Walk around the rakes of bread and pastries. Some people were just piling up the stuff! The items were good to OK. The cakes looked good but that will be another time.

Love. Tulcingo Bakery is extremely user-friendly -- just take a tray and tongs and choose what you want from the cases. The piece de resistance is the chicarron at $10/pound. They are fatty, crispy and incredibly delicious. It is truly frightening how quickly we can go through a huge bag of chicarron! The pastries are fresh and are replenished throughout the day. There are SO many choices, it's hard to make a decision. The prices are about $1 per pastry. Also, they have cabeza de chivo on weekends! Tulcingo Bakery is conveniently located a few feet from the 103rd St. station on the No. 7 line.

Absolutely horrible!!!!! I only gave them one star because no stars is not an option. Three Kings Day is very special holiday in our household and we traveled all the way to Queens from Long Island because I heard this was the best Mexican Bakery. When we got there it had the impression of a happening spot. We bought a Rosca De Reyes (three kings day bread). This is a staple for this holiday feast. When we got home and opened the package the bread was super dry, hard and tasted like it was baked last year and they was selling us the surplus. My whole family was disappointed and not to mention it set me back $55 for the big bread. Im highly upset that they could sell such junk!

I was looking all over the long island/queens area for a place that sold churros. I finally found this place and I was able to order ahead. Each churro is $1. The churros were so good and they were fresh. It is in a very busy neighborhood right next to the seven train but they were fast. Only downside was the bakery need to be updated. It seemed a little outdated. However I highly recommend their churros.

I'm giving it a 1 star because a no star option is available a total rip-off, 40 dollars for a pie completely filled with whipped cream

Great baked goods here. One of the few places left in New York where you can get fresh donuts.

Place doesn't close at 2 am. I went there late night hoping to catch some pastries for someone I am visiting tomorrow morning. I don't mind the place being closed but the people inside not acknowledging me when I was knocking on the window is pretty messed up. They saw me and made eye contact but didn't care. I just wanted to know if it was open or not.

Boy this secret hidden bakery gem just gets better and better! I was in the area for work and made the short diversion to Tulcingo Bakery. This visit I noticed some different pastries so I grabbed my tongs and tray carefully chose only four items this time, and let me tell you it was hard to resist grabbing more of varied delicious looking breads/pastries. Kudos to the baker whose deft hand really shows as most of these pastries are shockingly light despite being pretty large and very daunting looking. - The chocolate dipped elephant ear was a deliciously flaky bite with a slight sugar glaze on it that was awesome. - The Banderilla was a delicate pastry shell comprised of multiple layers of phyllo-like sheets. It was excellently flaky and had a light sugary glaze on the top shell really made it just right in terms of sweetness. - The savory bun was quite the surprise as, contrary to what I mentioned above, this was the heavy hitter of the group. Dense and savory, I could best compare this bun to an equivalent sized piece of Irish soda bread. Very tasty, and a smear of butter (no margarine please) will make you feeling happy! - Cream filled horn was very flaky and light too with a fairly rich and slightly sweet cream filling. Not bad at all. You cannot go wrong in terms of value at Tulcingo as each pastry is only $1.00, Your biggest problem will probably be curbing yourself and having the self control to not buy one of everything!

I really liked how clean this Mexican bakery is. The bakery takes up the entire corner on both sides of the street. It's huge! The cases holding the pastries or as they call it, pasteles, were huge. There was 3 gigantic cases full of pastries that I had no way to identify what pastry is what. There were no labels. I guess you are supposed to experiment which is okay because 7 pastries were just $9.25. They are all really colorful. In the back they had racks and racks of bread also. The racks were super tall. You just pull out the racks and help yourself to a bun or bread. Just get an aluminum tray with tongs first. The churro is supposed to be deep fried, fyi. I see that mexican sugar bread has a ton of sugar rolled onto it sorta like a churro. It's what they like. I can imagine having a tea or black coffee with it. The pastries are only okay in taste. I like how they look more than the taste. All the pastries are very "bready" is how I would describe it. It was just fun looking at all the different pastries and breads.

this is the first time i've visited a mexican bakery and they have huge selections. to start, grab a metal tray and tong and go pick your goodies. i got a churro, a flaky pastry with jam, and a banana nut muffin. they all tasted ok, not too sweet, so that's a plus! the prices were fair too, less than $4 for three items. other than pastries, they also sell some mexican groceries, cheese, eggs, etc. i found it kinda interesting actually.

If you're looking for bad service and even worse cakes than come here. This place is horrible one time I got a cake and it had eggshells inside and then another time the cake was so old and stale that the cream tasted sour. Don't waste your money here, there are plenty of other better places around

I always have my birthday cakes done here with a custom feature and they always come through. I mostly have my cakes with photo images of the highlights of my year and they always get me what I want. And their bread is to die for. Only the ignorant people will consider their pastries dry. They are not locals and being a local my self they have the most delicious pastries and they even put them out fresh from the oven around mid day. I highly recommend this spot and hope you have a wonderful experience but now some of the employees left and now they have these ignorant people working over there

Although this bakery has moved into a larger location down the block I am still amazed at everything they cram into it. As you walk in, you are immediately met with wonderfully fragrant Mexican breads and pastries. There's a nice (but way smaller in comparison to the baked goods) hot food area, and even a refrigerated "Mexican cuisine essentials" section in the back (filled with veggies, etc). Always nice to visit this Tulcingo outpost.

I can't say I'm a fan of Mexican pastries. I find the breads too dry, almost hard and despite the numerous variations in appearance, they mostly taste the same. But if you love this type of bread, make haste to Tulcingo. Cases and cases holding all different assortments of doughnuts, pastries and breads greet you, some filled with guava, some filled with cheese, some just plain and slightly sweet. The assortment is truly astonishing, and frightening for the gluten intolerant. And lest you think the pastries are stale, fret not. On a late Saturday afternoon, the place was hustle and bustle, with customers carrying trays, on the average each sporting 8-12 breads on each tray. I wanted to follow them home to see if all they were feeding hungry alligators with all that bread. The drill is, you take a tray, grab tongs and go for it. These customers were going all out for it. And just in case Tulcingo runs out of bread, which I am sure never happens, there were racks of just baked bread off to the back. And if you wanted fried pork rinds, there was a whole display case devoted just to the stuff, with the handy tongs again. And in case you didn't grab enough carbs, the front of the store has counters filled with whole cakes and tarts. I was almost embarrassed to get only two pieces, the standard guava filled puff pastry and bread. I can't say I would make a special trip to come back for either, but if I were in the nabe, I would stop in just to oogle the varieties.

The cake they sold me was expired because when I cut the cake, there was fungus and to make it worse, it was $45. I trusted the cake to be good because of the price, but what I got was complete 180 of what I was expecting. If I could, I would have given less rating, but I can't.

Have you ever had goat? The kind that falls of the bone, melts in your mouth and leaves your palate with a pleasant hint of oregano and spice? If you haven't or were wondering when you'd finally find good barbacoa in NYC, then you must absolutely come to Tulcingo. Tulcingo's barbacoa is served on Saturdays and Sundays, so plan your trip accordingly. Order one each of salsa verde and salsa roja to drizzle over the barbacoa. The salsas are very spicy and tasty, specially the salsa verde which comes with little chunks of avocado and freshly chopped cilantro. I recommend you walk a couple of blocks to buy tortillas from Tortilleria Nixtamal (www.tortillerianixtamal) to make tacos at home for a wonderful weekend treat. If it is winter, try champurrado (Mexican hot chocolate with corn dough); theirs is my favorite, a little tangy, low in sugar and milk and high on chocolate. I'm unable to resist buying myself a cup when I pass by. I do not give Tulcingo 5 stars because the quality of their bread is not consistent (they seem to lose a baker each week!) However, I do recommend their cuernitos (Mexican croissant) and chocolate pound cake.

This huge corner space no longer seems to carry atoles but does have nearly any pastry you could dream of for its genre. Nice spot to drop in but nothing phenomenal - jack of all trades master of none kinda deal.

Damn you Tulcingo! You are making me obese ! LOL

Very good bakery and prices are very good. I am a regular customer at this place.

The smell of freshly baked bread welcomes you as soon as you enter the door. A wide variety of Carbohydrate goodies neatly lined plastic see thru covered shelfs on the left. A stand with aluminum plates and tongs are provided for easy pick for customers. They also have a wide array of "Postres Mexican flans, Gelatines, Pastel de 3 Leches, Platanos etc. and cakes. Snacks and Beverages from Mexico. Right across the Street they have a restaurant called El Original Tulcingo Deli which serves an array of food from Breakfast Huevos, Tacos, Tostadas to Dinner.

Tamales are delicious...churros taste super deep fried which equals to no bueno for me

Fun, fresh bakery with lots of choices of different breads and pastries. They're always bringing out fresh out of the oven goods right on the trays. The cakes are delicious as well. The service is friendly and fast. The prices are very reasonable.

The bread is great! And the cakes even better! They always have fresh bread coming out fresh and hot. I always buy my cakes from here. Forgot to mention they have tamales everyday and on weekends they have carnitas and barbacoa.

Provided a fast and friendly service as well as fresh bread and pastries. I would highly recommend this place to anyone who is looking for authentic Mexican bread and goodies.

now this place is a bread wonderland! all types of fresh mexican baked bread they are all deliciousssssssssss, they always have flan and tres leches cake slices OMG yummmmmmmmmmmmm and i absolutely cant forget to mention they sell homemade tamales daily!!!! and carntias y barbacoa on the weekends wow this place is amazing , if you havent been here your missing out ! i blame this place for my obesity