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By Kelly White

Mexican bodegas may be cute as El Diablo, but if you’ve been to one, you’ve been to them all. That’s not the case when you reach Panaderia Las Lomas. The bakery stands out with its wacky window display of over-the-top sample cakes covered in wild frosting jobs and decorations. The on-site bakers crank out technicolored pastries and towering cakes in the back, so that the overwhelming case of goodies inside remains a bastion of freshness.

Bypass rows of beans and cases of Jarritos soft drinks, select a metal tray and tongs from the counter, and load it up with enormous cookies and colorful sweet breads. Try pan de huevo, a yeasty egg bread that comes in several flavors, or pastel para los niños, iced pink sponge cake speckled with sprinkles. Both will make you drop the cannolis.

Las Lomas will ring you up at the register, near a wall lined with Mexican DVDs, where a mother leafs through a thick binder to choose her daughter’s quinceañera cake. When you step outside, hook a left, clutching your bag of sweets tightly, onto the narrower-than-narrow Kimball Street. Away from the rush of the Italian Market shoppers, you can partake in a sugar-swirled concha in sweet silence.

Panaderia Las Lomas
1034 S 9th St, Philadelphia, PA 19147
215 551-1808