Panaderia Y Mercado Hernandez

If you're looking to evoke the old-fashioned vibe of a suburban main street that's close to the city, you should probably take another drag off your doobie, watch a rerun of "Leave It to Beaver", and vote for Trump again. Otherwise, South San Francisco's Grand Avenue gives a more diverse sense of what this country is about with Vietnamese, Chinese, and Mexican cultures residing in harmony with Ed's Diner (no relation to me). Part of the appeal is this Mexican market which draws me in with its abundant produce selection (photo: http://bit.ly/2ntyVoJ), its well-stocked and well-organized shelves, and ah yes, the panaderia.Unless you're at a business that's more purely a panaderia like La Reyna or La Victoria in the city or Bakery El Sol in Oakland, the Mexican baked goods are usually in a single cabinet near the check-out area. But not here. There was an entire wall of cabinets with quite a variety of cookies, cakes, candied fruit (photo: http://bit.ly/2oxzYFN), churros, and sweet breads (pan dulce) (photo: http://bit.ly/2nwFdVz). As is typical practice, you pick up one of their pink trays and a pair of tongs and have at it (photo: http://bit.ly/2n1ui9O). Just remember that the idea is not to cover your whole tray with these goodies unless you have the metabolism of a hummingbird.The overall quality was frankly better than I have experienced in the Mission with my particular favorite a block of simple chocolate cake unadorned with frosting of powdered sugar. If you can get past all the sweets, no small feat, you should take a look at their selection of beans, all in bags and neatly stacked on a shelving unit (photo: http://bit.ly/2nLs5fQ). Or maybe a can of menudo (photo: http://bit.ly/2oq9Lvu) to satisfy your urge for tripe and cartilage. Or maybe not. How about the Moco de Gorila which I thought was a chocolate syrup (photo: http://bit.ly/2ntGXOg)? It turned out to be hair styling product unattractively subtitled "gorilla snot gel". That was a close call, Beav.

They do not care about covid here. -Cashiers were masks under their nose.-bread is not individually packaged like most bakeries. Everyone touches the tongs and the bread.-they don't sanitize after every customer-cashier handles bread and money without gloves.- no social distance and no mask enforcedThe manager said it is a whole bunch of bs and he said everyone was a sheep.

Full disclosure: We primarily come here for the baked goods and occasionally produce in a pinch. I don't know much about any of the other items on the shelves aside from the fact that they are very tidy and neatly arranged. We love the baked goods here. My favorite is the banana bread pudding, and this pan dulce with chunks of brown sugar in it. They also make some sweets such as caramelized yam candy. The selection is huge, from traditional pan dulce to big cookies with m&ms or chocolate chips, or whole loaves of banana bread. On the downside, the produce is hit or miss -- I've gotten some fruit items that went bad somewhat fast so if you're getting any fresh fruit there, you'll want to use it ASAP.

Very disappointed. Went in today to get some veggies and I saw 3 customers in the store with no mask!!!!! I told the cashier and all she responded with was with a hummmmmm. This health issue isn't over. And if people don't protect themselves then they should stay home. As for this store, they should not allow anyone who doesn't have a mask on. ITS A REQUIREMENT!!!

Dropped by today after my morning coffee at Dead Eye and all the workers were wearing masks. Got some nice looking kale for $1.69. Smells amazing there in the morning from the pan dulce. Good assortment of veggies and fruits. Not giving 5 perfect stars only because the spinach was looking kinda wilted

A local establishment, Panaderia Hernandez has been supplying the local Latino community and its admirers for years. Here, you can buy all your favorite Mexican, Guatemalan and Salvadoran sweet breads (mostly Mexican style though). They do have a great assortment of Latin American products ranging from Puerto Rican Goya seasonings to Salvadoran turkey spice mix and everything in between. I come here for the Pan Dulce breads and Salvadoran tamales that are delivered fresh daily. I also buy my Latin spices here as well.

Cute local bodega in downtown south city. Don't be deceived by the storefront. Once you go in, the shop goes in very deep. They everything you would find at a grocery store from liquor to baked goods to veggies. Great shop for those emergency items, but if you need to shop in bulk, I'd suggest heading over on the other side of 101 to Costco.

I'm speaking solely based on the bakery portion. I went here once just to get pan dulce and I won't be coming back. I was really excited to get some and got like five different kinds and they all tasted horrible. I didn't even know pan dulce could be butchered like that. I really did want to like it but I knew as soon as I took my first bite it was a no. I'm sad that it didn't taste good and that I wasted money:(

Charged bag fee without giving us any bag. While though the lady with red hairs didn't give us any bag, she gave us quite some attitude like we owe her 1 million.Also charged us the "technology fee", which makes sense. After all, we indeed bought some high-tech watermelon, high-tech mango, and super high-tech bread.

I just spent $91 on arrachera meat ( carne asada ) and my wife told the butcher to not go be her any dark meat that looked old, well when she cooked a couple of slices she said the meat tasted bad and old. I went to the establishment to get our money back for the bad meat and the manager accused me of putting old meat bought somewhere else and putting it in their bag. They refused to return my money for the bad meat and also I would not recommend their Mexican bread either, it all taste old as well. I used to come here all the time but I will never set foot in there and will recommend to other people to go elsewhere.