Restaurant in Mexico City, Mexico
Elena Reygadas' bakery. Go early, go often.
Panadería Rosetta is Elena Reygadas's bakery in Colonia Roma Norte and one of the clearest value propositions in Mexico City: European-influenced baking grounded in local ingredients, ranked #51 on Opinionated About Dining's North America Cheap Eats list in 2025. Go on a weekday morning for the best selection. No reservations, walk-in only.
If you are comparing Panadería Rosetta to a standard neighbourhood bakery, you are looking at the wrong category. The better comparison is Rosetta, Elena Reygadas's full-service restaurant a short walk away in Colonia Roma. The bakery is the more accessible, lower-commitment version of the same culinary sensibility: European-influenced baking done with serious technical intent, at a price point that makes it one of the strongest-value food stops in Mexico City. Opinionated About Dining has ranked it among the leading cheap eats in North America three consecutive years, moving from #127 in 2023 to #51 in 2025. That trajectory tells you something about how quickly the food world has taken notice.
Panadería Rosetta sits on Colima 179 in Colonia Roma Norte, one of Mexico City's most food-dense blocks. The visual draw is immediate: trays of laminated pastries, flaky conchas, and naturally leavened breads stacked in a space that reads more like a thoughtful Milanese pasticceria than a traditional Mexican panadería. That visual register is intentional. Reygadas trained in Italy before opening Rosetta, and the influence runs through everything here from the lamination on the croissants to the use of high-quality local grains. What makes this worth visiting, beyond aesthetics, is that the baking holds up to the look of the place.
For a food-focused traveller, this is one of the clearest expressions of what Mexico City's dining scene has been doing well for the past decade: taking an international technique and grounding it in local ingredients without making a performance of the fusion. You are eating good bread in a good room, not sitting through a concept. That restraint is what makes Panadería Rosetta easy to recommend to almost anyone passing through Roma Norte.
The optimal window is weekday mornings, specifically Tuesday through Friday between 8am and 10am. This is when the broadest selection of freshly baked items is available and before the mid-morning rush from the surrounding neighbourhood and nearby offices fills the small space. Weekend mornings draw longer queues, particularly on Saturdays, when Roma Norte foot traffic peaks. The bakery opens at 7am Monday through Friday and 7am Saturday (7:30am Sunday), which makes it a viable first stop before a full day of eating around the city. Wednesday through Saturday hours extend to 10pm, meaning it also works as an early-evening detour for pastry and coffee after dinner reservations that end early — though selection thins out considerably by late afternoon.
This is a bakery, so takeaway is essentially the default format. Most items are designed to be carried: pastries in paper bags, breads boxed or wrapped. If you are heading to a hotel room, a park, or a long transfer, Panadería Rosetta is one of the few Mexico City food stops where the off-premise experience is comparable to eating in. Laminated pastries are leading within an hour of purchase — the flakiness degrades with time and humidity, which matters in CDMX. Bread holds better, particularly any naturally leavened loaves, which travel well across a full day. For a food traveller building a morning itinerary, buying here and eating in Parque México a few blocks away is a practical and worthwhile option. Delivery, if available through local platforms, is a lower-priority choice given how short the window is for laminated items at their leading.
Address: Colima 179, Roma Nte., Cuauhtémoc, 06700 Ciudad de México. Hours: Monday 7am–9pm; Tuesday–Wednesday 7am–10pm; Thursday–Friday 7am–10pm; Saturday 7am–10pm; Sunday 7:30am–9:30 pm. Booking: No reservations , walk-in only. Budget: Cheap eats tier; expect to spend under 200 MXN per person for pastry and coffee. Dress: No code; casual is the norm. Leading for: Solo visitors, couples, small groups picking up breakfast or an afternoon snack.
For the full picture of where to eat in the city, see our full Mexico City restaurants guide. If you are planning the rest of your trip, our Mexico City hotels guide, bars guide, and experiences guide cover the key decisions. For Reygadas's full-service cooking, Rosetta is the natural next booking. Elsewhere in Mexico, Levadura de Olla in Oaxaca and Animalón in Valle de Guadalupe are worth building itineraries around. For bakery benchmarks in other cities, Radio Bakery in New York and Antica Focacceria San Francesco in Palermo offer useful points of comparison.
Arrive early on weekdays for the widest selection and shortest wait. This is a walk-in-only bakery, no reservations. Budget well under 200 MXN per person , Opinionated About Dining ranks it among the leading cheap eats in North America, so the quality-to-price ratio is high. If you want to understand what makes it stand out, compare it directly to Rosetta, Reygadas's full-service restaurant; the bakery runs on the same culinary logic at a fraction of the cost.
Morning wins, clearly. The bakery's strengths are freshly baked pastries and bread, which peak in the first few hours after opening. By lunch, selection narrows. By dinner , the bakery is open until 9pm or 10pm on most days , you are largely choosing from whatever remains. If your schedule forces a later visit, it is still worth stopping for coffee and whatever bread is left, but do not plan an evening visit as your primary food stop.
There is limited seating inside, but Panadería Rosetta functions primarily as a counter-service bakery rather than a sit-down café. Expect to order, collect, and either find a seat if one is free or take your order out. On busy mornings this is effectively a takeaway operation. If you want a more leisurely breakfast experience with table service, Rosetta next door offers a different format.
For small groups of two to four picking up pastries and coffee, it works well. Larger groups will find the space tight , this is a compact bakery, not a brunch venue. If you are travelling with six or more and want to eat together, consider using Panadería Rosetta as a takeaway stop and heading to a nearby park, or book a table at Em or Rosetta for a group meal with proper seating.
For serious dining rather than baking, Pujol and Quintonil are the benchmark restaurants at the leading end. For something in the same affordable register but focused on Mexican cooking, Em and Lorea offer compelling mid-range options. If you specifically want another strong bakery benchmark elsewhere in the world, Radio Bakery in New York is the closest comparable in terms of approach and quality-to-price positioning.
Not in the traditional sense. There is no table service, no reservations, and no occasion-specific menu. But if your idea of a special occasion is starting a significant day with genuinely good pastry and coffee , a honeymoon morning in Roma Norte, a birthday breakfast before a day of eating around the city , it delivers on that. For a formal celebration, book Rosetta the restaurant, or consider Pujol or Quintonil for a full tasting experience.
Panadería Rosetta operates as a bakery, not a sit-down restaurant with a bar counter in the traditional sense. Seating is limited and casual — expect to stand, perch, or take your order to go. If you want a full table-service experience from Elena Reygadas, book a table at Rosetta, the parent restaurant, instead.
Go early. The bakery opens at 7am Monday through Friday and selection is broadest before 10am — later visits risk depleted trays. It sits on Colima 179 in Roma Norte, a walkable, food-dense neighbourhood. Ranked #51 on OAD Cheap Eats North America in 2025, it punches well above what the price point suggests.
Small groups of two to four work fine, but this is not a venue built for large parties. Seating is informal and space is tight. For a group meal with more structure, Rosetta or Quintonil offer the table formats and reservation systems that a bigger group needs.
Morning is the answer, even though the options extend to evening. The bakery runs until 9pm or 10pm depending on the day, but the core offer — freshly baked items at their best — is a morning and late-morning proposition. Dinner visits work if you are nearby, but the selection will be narrower.
For a comparable casual, counter-service format in the city, look at other Roma Norte and Condesa spots. If you want to stay within the Elena Reygadas universe, Rosetta is the full-service restaurant version on the same street. For a step up in formality and budget, Pujol and Quintonil are the standard references for Mexico City fine dining.
Not in the conventional sense. There are no reservations, no tasting menus, and no formal dining room. What it does offer is a low-cost, high-quality morning with a chef who holds serious credentials — Reygadas' work here earned OAD Cheap Eats rankings in 2023, 2024, and 2025. Treat it as a considered breakfast stop, not a celebration dinner.
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