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Porto's Bakery & Cafe
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Today: 6:30 am - 8:00 pm
64 Years
in Business
Amenities:
Offers outdoor seatingWheelchair accessibleGood for groupsGood for families
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They have the best baked goods, and beautiful desserts. Their cake decorating is beyond belief.
Love this place!!!!! Awesome food & pastries. We always order our cakes here. Along with always being crowded in here, the acoustics are hard to handle. It's so loud, it's hard to think! However, it doesn't keep us from going because the food is so good!
Everything is a good as it looks. It has a large diverse menu of sweets/ pies/cakes/sandwhiches etc.....AMUST go when in California!
Yes everyone calls out their baked goods but their sandwiches are awesome as well. I'm partial to the cuban. Don't forget a potato ball.
Excellent baked goods for events; pastries, cakes, and more. The wife and I enjoy their breakfast menu, and coffee. Don't forget the potato balls!
Great Location and very nice indoor setting. They have great pastries, sandwiches and coffee drinks.
Gotta go here for the Cuban sandwich and the potato balls. It's always crowded though which can be a pain if you want to eat in.
Always busy. Good sandwiches at reasonable price. I live the potato balls, macaroons and their new double cortadito (espresso)
The potato balls are awesome, and sandwiches are very good as well. There is typically a long line during peak hours (lunch), but they manage to get your order out fairly quickly. Seating can be a challenge due to the crowd, so I mostly take my order to go. My favorite part about this place, is the server that walks around with free samples! FREE SAMPLES!!!
Porto's is the best! I love their potato balls, Cuban sandwiches, and Parisian cakes, to name a few. Their drinks are awesome too. I love just being inside -- there is always a long line, but the energy is so awesome!
I've been coming here for years and it's the best in the world, can't get enough! Although their lines are long, totally worth the wait though!
love this place with pastries and food. the lines are long and so is the wait but its not too bad because its worth it. The potato balls are just scrumptious and very easy to eat so don't go if you are starving. There is a Cuban sandwich that they serve and it is also worth trying.
i m never going back to this place i order a cake for my daughter's nine birthday, I have make an special cake of the San Francisco giants jersey. when we went to pick the cake they had forgo ted about our order they didn't make the cake instead they wanted to give me some pastry i asked for a cake and they didn't have a cake for 60 people so at the end they make the cake four hours later and the party was already over ....
Very good pastries and I don't go often, but it's always a treat when my boss brings in a box for us
Everything is delicious and crazy cheap, especially at lunch.
Great and cheap cookies. Only 45 cents!!
Good pastries, sandwiches, their potato balls and cheese rolls are my fav!
Details
Phone: (818) 846-9100
Address: 3614 W Magnolia Blvd, Burbank, CA 91505
Website: http://www.portosbakery.com
More Info
Quality is the number one ingredient in everything we do!
- General Info
- Tracing its origins to the year 1960, when the Porto family made the tough decision to leave their home in Manzanillo, Cuba. After living through the drastic changes that were taking place around them, they requested permission to leave the country. Immediately Raul Sr. was terminated from his job and sent away to manual labor for the duration of the wait period. Wife, Rosa Porto was also let go. Knowing that it may take years to be able to leave the country, Rosa found herself alone and having to find a means to support her three children Betty, Raul Jr., and Margarita. Rosa, always a talented cake maker, with a passion for baking, entrenched herself in perfecting her recipes and began selling her delicious cakes to friends and neighbors not realizing that she was also building herself a loyal customer base. When the family finally emigrated from Cuba to California, they had not much more than the clothes on their backs, Raul Sr.’s strong work ethic, Rosa’s exceptional baking skills, and a dream for a better life. Soon after the plane landed, Rosa realized that her reputation had preceded her, and met her first customer just as she got off the plane. Raul Sr. took a job as a mechanic and after work delivered Rosa’s cakes. These were hard times, but the family was now in a country filled with limitless opportunities and their dream for a better future became more real as the years passed. Rosa continued on with her cake business and when their home could no longer accommodate the increased demand, opened a little 300-square foot bakery on Sunset Blvd, in the Echo Park area of Los Angeles. From day one, the place was busy, serving close to 50 customers a day. After tirelessly working two jobs, Raul Sr. left his latter job at Van De Kamp’s and joined Rosa full time. Meanwhile, their children Betty, Raul Jr., and Margarita managed to maintain their studies and learn the different parts of the business; baking, decorating, food preparation, customer service, and finances. In the 1980’s, after graduating college, Betty, Raul Jr. and Margarita stayed on with the business each taking on more specific roles. Raul Jr. took on managing the finances and alongside his long-time co-worker and friend, Tony Salazar, focused on new product development, production improvements, and quality control. Margarita joined her mom in the cake decorating area, and Betty managed alongside her father assisting customers. Rosa’s Cuban cakes were soon joined by French mousses, Italian sweets, and international savories. As customers flocked to the bakery demanding countless quantities of Cheese Rolls™, Refugiados™-guava and cheese strudels, and the infamous Potato Ball™ , space became critical. A move was made to a 2,000-square foot facility in Glendale and six years later to one double in size. The bakery continued to grow and more employees where hired to handle the demand for its increasingly broad line of cakes, desserts, and savories. The years proved Rosa’s formula successful. With the entire family’s effort, expansion to a 20,000-square foot facility took place in the 1990’s. Later further expansion included a Café with a menu showcasing signature Cuban sandwiches and lunch favorites. Rosa used her talents into a means of supporting her family and the business she began has turned into one of the most unique family-owned businesses in Southern California. Rosa Porto is now retired, but her recipes and her high standards remain, including her motto, “quality is the number one ingredient in everything we do”. Porto’s Bakery & Café now serves thousands of customers
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- Services/Products
- Bakery, Cakes, Cafe, Catering
- Payment method
- all major credit cards, cash
- Neighborhoods
- Magnolia Park, Burbank
- Amenities
- Fancy Platters, Pastries, Savory Platters, Sandwich Platters, Dipped Strawberries
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- Other Information
Parking: Street, Lot
Wi-Fi: No
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Takes Reservations: No
Outdoor Seating: Yes
Cuisine: Cafe
Drive Through: No
Good For Family: Yes
Good For Groups: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Take Out: Yes
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