STAY AWAY!! My mother recently broke her molar with this metal wire. It was in one of the bread she bit into. We brought it to the attention of the owner and he basically ignored and dismissed us!! Unfortunately, It broke her molar but it could have been WORSE had she swallowed it!! There's a triple A battery for reference in the picture-- it's very hard metal. read more

Panaderia Vanessa - Hard metal wire - Bakeries Near Me - Oxnard, California

Found this piece of plastic in my bread. A few months ago, I had found a small piece of metal in a concha. I should've known better than to come back. I started looking over the reviews and found other people had similar experiences in other Vanessa's. Panaderia. This is such a health hazard! So disappointed. read more

Panaderia Vanessa - Piece of plastic - Bakeries Near Me - Oxnard, California

It's good it's also $9.00 for these 5 pieces I cannot afford life anymore. I can't afford to enjoy this any longer it's wild. Definitely tasty read more

Panaderia Vanessa - 9 bucks I can't afford this life - Bakeries Near Me - Oxnard, California

Alright so I came back! Great customer service today! No line too! The bolillo is so good here and I was craving a polvoron de vanilla. Can't wait for later tonight as we are making chocolate! It was not busy all today. Parked right in front of the store ! Though prices are up .. pan here is good! I bought 5 pans and it was a bit over 12 bucks. 5 bolillos for .75 each. read more

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Sweet bread is poorly made with the wrong flour, excessive sugar and size is grotesque. I got a croissant and the first bite taste was awfully sweet not counting the heavy texture from the bread which I noticed right away Bakery used other kind of flour to make this fake bread. A Real Croissant is supposed to be flaky, layered, and buttery texture. read more

Panaderia Vanessa - Fake Croissant - Bakeries Near Me - Oxnard, California

Everything looks so fresh and delicious. Large display of sweetbreads, and the service was attentive. She was so sweet. read more

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Delicious pan dulces, sweet breads. Thankful this place has been here, strong, est 1990. Love all of the selection. From buttery sugar breads to conchas to bolio breads for hot chocolate. All of the family like staff are warm and friendly and all of the locals love it here. We appreciate the themed conchas ranging from Mexican Independence Day, pumpkins for Fall, pink Barbie, tea time desserts, and more. Muchas Gracias for this wonderful place! read more

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Panaderia Vanessa has the best Mexican bread in town!! Hands down, they also serve hot food, tacos burritos, tortas, tamales. The champurrado is the best also. read more

It's very easy to miss this as the road is weirdly intersecting but don't let that pass you by. Used to live nearby and would come more often but now I work close by. Upon entering, it's inviting and clean. Grab a tray, tong, & pick to your hearts desire for the variety they have of pan de dulce. They're well stocked, even at 11am. Service: Prompt, helpful, and nice. I had no problem getting help at all. Atmosphere: Clean and chill. This is more of a grab and go place. Parking: There is no parking lot but you can park anywhere along the streets which stretches out around the curve of the block. Food and menu is decently priced. Most panderias don't have labels for their bread so I'm not sure what they're called but I know what I like lol! read more

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SERVICE: Small location with a good selection of breads. Cashier was pleasant. Honestly, I don't how she would have greeted me if my friend was not with me, but, that is for next time. You walk in, grab a tray and start collecting your goodies of breads to take to the register. LOCATION: The location is a bit confusing to find due to how the streets intersect and turn, but we turned around and eventually found it. Free street parking. FOOD: My friend who is from Mexico and has lived in LA for years claims this place is worth the drive from LA in terms of taste and tradition. I must agree with her because my past experiences with Mexican breads have been so, so to the point I was no longer interested. However, this place has changed my mind. My photo isn't the greatest, BUT my bread was good. My breadpudding could have been a bit sweeter, but I also know that from a different perspective/culture of baking. WELL: I would return. read more

Panaderia Vanessa - croissant and bread pudding - Bakeries Near Me - Oxnard, California

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Excellent Mexican bakery near Oxnard's city center. Huge selections of pan dulce. They always have my favorite. My favorite pan dulce is called "oreja" translation "ear". It does sort of look an ear. A very light and sweet pan with a crispy flaky texture. Bakery adheres to social distancing and mask wearing protocols. Parking limited to street. read more

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I would like to thank this location for their phenomenal customer service, I work in education and we ordered breakfast burritos and bread for a professional development and I would like to say they had everyone satisfied! Also a big shout out to the staff who is there who also helped me take out my big order to my vehicle and made sure my order was ready at the promised time! We look forward to many more orders! read more

This is my family's bakery and there bread is so delicious and there coffee is good and they have good prices I love this place

Wack Panaderia. Girl at front doesn't even greet or say thank you, all she did was carry a conversation with a boy with an apron. Bread is dry, coffee is watered down, service is wack and over priced!! read more

Tamales had T00 much masa and maybe a tablespoon of meat; too expensive for masa tamales.

There bread is ok, it is a bit pricey. I got two breads and it was 5 dollars. The lady was to busy talking to the workers to greet me, but it looked clean and organized. read more

Good bread but pricy you need to put $$$ not $ Customer Service is hit and miss you never know what kind of service you'll be getting read more

Decent Bread! Bad Price! Ladies at the counter snobs.. Too many Mexican bread locations in town to go back.. Did I mention overpriced? Pan mediocre, Precios demasiado caro, no gracias.. read more

Love the pan dulce from here and they also give food as well which is great. The tamales are bomb asf.

Man!!!!!! That was some awesome Mexican bread. A little on the pricey side but it was worth it. I think I was overcharged. 19 pieces of bread 39.00???? Oh well, I was tired of driving around to find a place n Mother's Day read more

Food is okay I just don't like the customer service it's always this female with super long nails at the register she has a stank face all the time and doesn't acknowledge you the ladies on the food side are nice food is pricey too and not the best in my opinion read more

Panaderia Vanessa - This isn't the cashier that helped me it was a girl with nails - Bakeries Near Me - Oxnard, California

The best with great counter Dodd and so much talent cooking like my Tia's house. Very clean , wow with Mexican bread read more

There was nothing like the 90's when this place was hosted by Vicente y Lilia... the women there now act extremely snobby and rude

They charged me $8 for a burrito the size of my palm. Not only are they rude but they are constantly cleaning with harsh chemicals my burrito tasted like cleaning product. read more

Panaderia Vanessa - Bakeries Near Me - Oxnard, California

Usually this place is ok but today was a huge disappointment for me. I havent been here in a few months and today I decided to go and get some breakfast and after today I dont think I'll be coming back anytime soon. The Avena I got was lacking oats it was pretty much just warm milk with sugar. The beans taste bad like they have absolutely no salt and are watered down. And the tamales are not even fully cooked.. with raw masa coming out. The service which again is usually okay today was terrible. I was in line and when it was my turn the women there attended a man who had just walked in as if I wasn't standing there. I was baffled. And then they proceeded to attend another man who walked in, which is when I decided to just order at the register. I saw a lot of new faces on the kitchen side and they were unfriendly and rude. I do not reccomend this place. read more

Panaderia Vanessa - Tasteless beans - Bakeries Near Me - Oxnard, California

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Las señoras que atienden son muy mal modosas y se ven molestas. El lugar es normal como cualquier panadería.

If you want roscas for día de los reyes next January, then hit this spot. Holy cow, my mother in law gave me the task to get some Rosca (3 wise men bread tradition)before coming home. Thankfully, my handy dandy Yelp friends recommended this bakery to get some. First off, its right by a shady neighborhood and it was dark, some people may double think just walking here at night. As soon as I found the spot, I could tell this was "the" spot for roscas. Half of the city was going in and out of the bakery. It was crakalaking. I found a parking spot quickly since people didn't seem to take too long inside. Once inside, oh my word! The smell of fresh sweet bread was wafting off their shelves. My salivary glands became overstimulate since I had enter the realm of my one weakness...bread This people were on it. I was out in less than 5 mins!! Two sizes, 20 or 25 dollars, depending on which one you got. No time to try their Mexican breads at this time, definitely will come back to try some. read more

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I went in to buy menudo this morning. We took a pot for four orders and ordered one additional to be wrapped separately. They offered tortillas for the single order only saying that they don't offer them for the four orders in the pot. I'm sorry, but I just saved the earth from four stryfoam containers and them the cost of the same, also, the price was no less than the single order and they can't offer tortillas??? Unacceptable!! read more

Oh, pan dulce, how do I love thee? Let me count the ways.... I've been coming to this panaderia for as long as I can remember. It was always a special treat to drive all the way from Ventura on weekend mornings with my mom and walk into the panaderia, the smell of fresh baked goodies wafting through the air as the tall wheel-y metal racks full of right-out-of-the-oven still warm pan sat cooling off and waiting to be placed in the large glass display shelves. My mom would hand me the tongs and hold the big round metal tray for me to place my selected treats on. We'd stock up on delicate custard and fruit-filled Empanadas (turnover pastries) de crema(custard), manzana (apple), pina (pineapple), calabaza (pumpkin), and cookies, such as the cochinito (a spicy little pig-shaped gingerbread) or the Reposteria de Polvo (rich, buttery shortbread dusted with powdered sugar). She and my dad always preferred the light and flaky crust of Monos (bows) or Orejas (meaning "ears"similar to Palmiers) lightly dusted with sugar and cinnamon to have the next morning with their cafe con leche and the Sunday LA times. I'd select Galletas de Grajella (a hefty oatmeal cookie with lots of colored sprinkles) and the ever popular conchas (egg-bread, dense, rich, yeasty, not too sweet, with its gracefully rounded-tops shaped in the likeness of a "concha" or a shell) topped with sugar in vanilla (white), strawberry (pink), or chocolate (brown) colors for my siblings. I always loved the Encocadas (made of two hemispherical halves of yellow cake sweetbread, filled in the center and held together by strawberry or raspberry jam. The outside is smeared with jam as well and then covered in coconut flakes), the Mantecados (a large piece of unsweetened bread toasted on the sides, then generously covered in a of spread creamy butter and topped with pure granulated sugar), and of course the Bolillos or Birotes as we called them, crusty tapered oval rolls based on the French baguette to be eaten plain, toasted on the comal (cast iron plate) with butter or turned into a bread substitute for a torta (Mexican sandwich). We'd stock up for the week spending roughly $10 to 12 dollars. Each pieza (piece) generally only costing 33 cents to $1.25. We'd take our tray, piled high, up to the register and the cashier would ring us up and carefully package up our items in the white paper bags. Pastry-making became popular in Mexico with the arrival of the French during their brief attempt at occupation that ended with the battle of Cinco de Mayo in 1862. Modern-day Pan dulce is very much a result of that influence. It is pastry-making from native Mexican ingredients (corn, chocolate, pineapple, guava, pumpkin, etc.) and in a variety of doughs and textures. Mexican Pan Dulce is generally created in fanciful shapes bearing colorful names often relating to its shape. There are an estimated 500 to 2000 varieties of pan dulce and while Panaderia Vanessa certainly does not carry all of them it does carry a wide assortment including donas (donuts), cuernitos (like French croissants but not flaky, more soft and sweet), bisquets (old fashioned biscuits), ojos de buey, elotitos, medias noches (springy sweet rolls), pasteles (cakes) for birthdays and other special occasions. Speaking of special occasions, two of my ABSOLUTE favorite things to get at Panaderia Vanessa are Rosca de Reyes after the new year and pastel de las tres leches. Rosca de Reyes, or King's cake is a baked sweet roll in the shape of a crown or ring. A small baby doll, representing the Christ child or baby Jesus, is baked right in the bread and it is eaten on January 6th during the Feast of Epiphany, remembering the Wise Kings that went to adore the Baby Jesus. In my opinion, the pastel de las tres leches, or cake of the three milks (a butter cake soaked in evaporated milk, condensed milk and whole milk), from Vanessa is the best tres leches I've ever had outside of Mexico. It is rich, airy and despite being completely soaked does not have a soggy consistency. My mom orders me a half sheet or full sheet every year for my birthday. They frost it with light, perfectly whipped buttercream white frosting and adorn it with pink frosting green-leafed roses and "Feliz Cumpleanos" and my name in perfect pink frosting cursive. I've tried pastel de las tres leches from various panaderias in the larger Bay Area and NOTHING compares. I love this panaderia's version so much that I have been known to go home to So. Cal for the weekend and to bring a full sheet of it back up with me on flights (as my carry-on, of course). I may be biased because I grew up with these flavors. They are part of my palate. However, all biases aside, the pan from Vanessa is truly delicioso! read more

Panaderia Vanessa - Rosca de Reyes - Bakeries Near Me - Oxnard, California

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Great service, friendly owner. We ordered a huge mother's day cake. Language barrier, they made icing roses instead of strawberry roses, and they quickly resolved that issue. The cake is not overly sweet but it is more dense than (less spongy than) the Asian cakes. We normally go to a place in Santa Paula, but this time we tried this place out, the older Asians approve. They also have lots of breads, all pretty decent. I wasn't really impressed with the burritos, cause I have my preferred places in the Nard, but it wasn't bad. Highly recommend this place! read more

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Delicious Mexican hot chocolate! Descent bread and soft rolls. Open early and closes late.

Ridiculously expensive! This place can literally charge you what they want. No break down on receipt, no prices labeled on shelves. How can 6 prices of bread cost 20bucks!!!! And 4 of them being the miniature conchas!. Insane, this place is a rip off!! read more

Was the family go to bakery until one day my dad was swindled by the cashier. She claimed he had paid with a smaller bill when that wasn't the case. Used to be a weekly regular for years but after that incident, never again. Owner Vicente backed up the cashier, Vicente and took her word for it. Shady business practice. read more

If I could give zero stars I would. Their bread is good but their customer service is horrible. The two ladies working there are rude and have no people skills. I went there around 3pm to buy bread and the place was taped off and one of the ladies grabbed the bread for me. Before I headed back home I stopped by and the tape was no longer there. So I proceeded to tell her which bread I wanted. One of them then said the trays are there grab whatever you want yourself. I was a little thrown off but I did and then payed... I said, "thank you" and left. Needless to say, I won't be coming back!! I never leave reviews but maybe this will help them change that horrible attitude read more

This bakery has great quality bread, as well as good food. Their staff is very friendly and offers quality customer service. Highly recommended. read more

Went there for on Christmas Eve the mexican bread was very soft and great enjoyed them

Best bread in the city! pan dulce is always fresh and good. Its a very community based bakery very old fashioned but still super good! they do take card. read more

I've been there twice now and would say their pan dulce is good enough to come back. I've gone late at night after work so not much of a selection by then, but the conchas were soft and you could taste the trigo(not just regular white bread with sugar on top). Soft each time i've gone and stays soft a few days. read more

Best pan dulce in Oxnard. I have tried a variety of Panaderías including grocery stores like F4L and Vallartas and none compare to the pan dulce at Vanessa's. Their pan dulce are pretty big pieces and are sweet and delicious. Most panadería' s pan are dense and smaller pieces but not at Vanessa's. I have been coming here on and off for 15 years and will definitely make this my spot. Customer service is average but usually im in and out. Try their tres leches cake slices. They are awesome but make sure to look for a slice thats completely infused in the leche. read more

Panaderia Vanessa - Sweet and Delicious! - Bakeries Near Me - Oxnard, California

The bread/ pan is always warm soft and fresh! Try the bread pudding! My favorite place for pan dulce! Yummy!!! Coffee is very good too! read more