Ube Pandesal
$3.75The purple ones. Soft, faintly sweet, gone by the afternoon.
The Original, since the Milpitas shop
The Filipino bakeshop on South Street.
Pandesal out of the oven, ube bread stacked purple on the rack, and a case of yema balls at forty five cents each. Artesia, Norwalk and the original in Milpitas.
4.3from 224 Google reviewsOpen every day, 9am to 6pmACounty health grade
Artesia · Norwalk · Milpitas
A bakeshop, not a bakery counter.
Luisa & Son has been feeding the Filipino community around Pioneer Boulevard for years out of a small unit on South Street. The bread comes out through the day, the racks get refilled, and by six in the evening the pandesal shelf is usually looking thin.
It is the kind of shop where the prices are still written on little yellow tags clipped to the shelf, and where a bag of rolls costs less than a coffee somewhere else. Nothing about it is trying to be a cafe.
Three shops carry the name now. This is the Artesia one, with its own counter, its own regulars, and the mint green script sign out front that you can spot from the parking lot.
Cash and cardOn site parkingOpen 7 days
Off the shelf
Breads and rolls
Prices as marked on the shelf tags in store. Stock moves through the day, so the rack looks different at nine in the morning than it does at five.
Egg Pandesal
$3.75The everyday roll. A bag of these and a cup of coffee is the whole point.
Wheat Pandesal
$4.20Same roll, whole wheat. Sold in the small bag.
Pinagong Bread
$2.80The little rounded loaves stacked by the front rack.
Monay Bread
$4.75Dense, firm, and built for slicing.
Pan de Coco
$4.25Filled with sweet shredded coconut.
Spanish Bread
$4.25Rolled thin with butter and sugar through the middle.
Mongo Bread
$4.25Mung bean filling, a shop staple.
Ube Bread
$4.25Purple yam right through the loaf.
By the counter
Forty five cents each.
The clear cases by the register hold the small stuff: yema, macapuno, langka, buko pandan, cheese, mango, cashew. Tarts and polvoron sit at seventy five cents. People come in for a bag of bread and leave with a handful of these.
Yema Balls45cMacapuno Balls45cLangka Balls45cBuko Pandan Balls45cCheese Balls45cMango Balls45cCashew Balls45cMacademia Balls45cCrunchy Pulvoron45cCheese Tart75cLangka Tart75cMacadamia Tart75cSpecial Polvoron75c
Also in store
- Cream cheese ensaymada
- Hopia (mung bean, ube, pork)
- Siopao
- Chicken and ube empanadas
- Fried lumpia
- Embutido
- Yema cake
- Halo-halo
- Cupcakes and fruitcake
- Espasol
- Cheese pimiento spread
- Coffee and dinner rolls
Cakes and celebration orders are handled at the counter. Give the shop a call and ask for what you need.
Inside the shop
Racks, cases and yellow tags
What people say
4.3 from 224 reviews
Google, Artesia branch
“Yummy food items. Friendly staff. Reasonable prices. Ample parking spaces.”
Di Di
Google · 4 months ago
“I'm from Arizona, and every time I visit California I stop by this store to buy my favorite cream cheese ensaymada.”
Ganda Hacienda
Google · 7 months ago
“I love their products, if I could buy everything , I will, but ofcourse some stuff can be sweet for me, but its once store that I would go once in a while.”
Adoracion Alcaraz
Google · 2 months ago
“The best yema”
Francis Zambas
Restaurant Guru
“Always good food”
Yolly Asanza
Restaurant Guru
Come by
Find us on South Street
Address
11620 1/2 South St
Artesia, CA 90701
In the plaza off South Street, parking on site.
Hours
Monday to Sunday
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Same hours every day of the week.
Phone
562-924-8100Ordering ahead or asking about a cake?
The quickest way is to call the shop. If it is easier to write it down, send an email and we will come back to you.
Drvrosie@yahoo.com