Panaderia El Molino

Yeah.
For those who have been following me from the very beginning, you know I have been looking for 3 things since leaving the New Jersey area. Good pizza (that delivers), good Chinese (that delivers), and a good bakery (that has good pastries). Winchester had 2 of the 3 (Chinese and a bakery, and even then that was in Charles Town, 30 minutes away), Manassas? So far, it was a woeful 0-​fer, until I came across this place.
It’s literally a hole in the wall when you pass it by, and it never think much of it until you see the inside. It has a HUGE selection of pan dulce (sweet bread), cookies, donuts, and every other thing you could possibly imagine. All you have to do is take a pair of tongs, and put what you want in a bag. Everything then is weighed and there you have it, easy.
As for the holding quality, the stuff I have found so far holds very well. Everything was still fresh days later and still had great tastes. Even the stuff with the fruit on the inside. I was very pleased with this. Churros, amongst fruit turnovers, and some cakes, were all very good and had excellent flavor and texture.
I will conclude by saying I will definitely be back here. This was quite an experience that I did not expect, but glad as heck I did.

I lived on the Texas border of Mexico for several years and have a few favorite sweet breads– I have to admit, I actually liked this better than the Mexican bakeries that were 2 miles from Mexico! Very authentic and delicious. They have trays cooling that guy an grab off of, too. Don’t forget to grab tongs to pick your pan dulce out of the cases.

Very small, cramped space but packed full of hispanic baked goods. Huge chocolate chip cookies, donuts, pan dulces, quesadillas, everything you can imagine.
You put all your baked goods in the provided paper sacks, the sack is weighed and priced accordingly. They require a $ 5 minimum for credit purchases.

Best pig cookies made of molasses, especially if u go early in the morning. Not that they r bad in the evening. Haven’t tried cookies yet, but they look good. Will definitely go back

I went here saturday ¼/​14 because my friend wanted a rosca de reyes, a traditional sweetbread for el dia de los reyes which is January 6, and although I didnt know what it was for really, she got it and it looked fresh and beautiful and alot better than the stuff in the spanish stores. I got some bolillos/​pan frances and also some pan dulce for my boyfriend. The bolillos are AWESOME. not good, or «ok» but delicious, soft, fragrant and better than any freaking bread you get from giant or walmart! Now, I must say, if you are looking for sickening sweet dunkin donuts type donuts and such, you will have to move on. The bread here is traditional, not overly sweet, and a nice change from american style pastries. They also sell cakes here, meringue cookies, atol, and tamales. The meringues (espumillas) looked good, and the cakes were lovely and decorated with fresh fruit. I will DEFINITELY be coming back here, and recomending this bakery to my friends.

The rolls are soooo good. They are about 8 inch white bread sandwich rolls. They are perfect for my homemade steak and cheese or my wife’s panes con pollo. In the approximately 20 times I have been here, there has never been a time when there was not a plentiful amount available. My mom and dad ask me to bring them home to WV when I visit.
I have tried just about every type of sweet bread they sell but what sticks out the most for me is the bread pudding. Just a little slice is so thick and heavy. It is perfectly baked sometimes with raisins and sometimes without. The glaze is almost caramel like and probably my favorite part.
We also enjoy the tres leches cake. This has become most of our family members choice for a birthday cake. The milk is the perfect amount to make the cake beyond moist but somehow does not make it soggy. The cake is topped with a generous amount of fresh fruit and a very light and fluffy whipped icing. I hate sickening sweet sheet cake icing so this is perfect for me.
My other favorite is at checkout to ask for an atol de elote. It tastes fresh and homemade. It is thin enough to drink, has pieces of fresh corn in it and just a touch of cinnamon. It goes great with any of the pieces of bread.

Awesome!!!
We came on Sunday morning and were greeted by a waft of fresh baked sweet bread. Found racks of fresh out the oven Mexican bread being rolled out. Literally, everything was freshly baked. It’s rare to find Mexican bread that isn’t old and stale trying to be passed off as still good. Not here! This is a cute little panaderia, the lady at the register is like abuelita. She offered us samples of everything she had at the counter which enticed us to add to our purchase at the last second. Can’t beat fresh baked, everything was delicious!

Explicitly knowing by growing up with, enjoying them most of her life, and retaining the desire to acquire fine Mexican ‘dulces’ — baked goods are difficult to come by when seeking ‘real’ Mexican stuff. My wife and I travel the country considerably, and we rarely will find a place with the selection, product quality, taste and variety Panaderia El Molino (PEM) in Manassas offers. From the Great Northwest, to the Southwest and Southeast, few Mexican Bakeries can boast what PEM can! She is only glad that the bakery is not conveniently around the corner, as this way, she can keep it as an occaisional treat! Highly recommended if you’re looking for the real thing.

They have mostly cakes, pastries and other sweets.
I was hoping for fresh baked bread which they had just a little of.
I bought an apple turnover, it was OK.

Yes Please!!! Not giving them a 4 or 5 simply because they don’t have enough room in their bakery for their customer volume! The breads are all fresh and made daily, the sweet cakes they have are great! I am from a town in California with lots of little bakeries like this and after 5 years in Virginia I found a place that is just like back home! If you need something to dunk in your coffee then forget the same old everyday donuts and come here! If you need fresh bread for the most awesome sandwich you ever plan on making then come here for it fresh and warm out of the oven! But be ready to be should to shoulder with others who feel the same way about the bread!

If you buy sliced bread from the supermarket, then stop reading right now. It doesn’t matter if you get white bread or whole wheat or multi-​grain or pumpernickel. If you eat that, then move along. You won’t be interested in anything here, and you probably won’t understand it.
I’m studying Brazilian Portuguese. When you study a language, they also teach you about the culture. In Brazil they love bread. They love fresh bread. There is a bakery in every neighborhood, and the people know at what time the bread comes out of the oven. Sometimes people line up waiting. This place isn’t Brazilian, but it’s just that fresh bread still warm from the oven can’t be beat.
I used to buy sliced bread off the shelf at the supermarket thinking I was eating food. I even ate spinach from a can. My parents made me. I bought Thomas’ bagels too thinking I was eating good food.
Ya Basta! I say.
Like the name suggests, this place is a bakery. They bake various types of fresh bread on the spot all day. They have some awesome sandwich rolls that are like heaven when they come out of the oven. You can go there or call and find out when they’ll be baking a new batch so you can get it piping fresh. Or you can get what they have in their display case which is excellent too; it’s just that nothing beats that right out of the oven fresh bread taste.
And it’s always stocked with good eats. They have sweet bread which is bread with a little bit of sugar mixture on the outside. Precious likes to dip that in her coffee.
Why get bread and keep it in the bread box all week when you can just run down to this place? It’s just around the corner.