Porto’s to open Downtown Disney location with desk service and full bar

A beloved Southern California bakery identified for its cult-favorite pastries and Cuban consolation meals is heading to the Disneyland Resort — and it’s bringing some firsts with the opening.

Porto’s Bakery and Café is about to open a brand new location within the Downtown Disney District, marking a significant milestone for the family-run model that has constructed a loyal following throughout Los Angeles County.

The upcoming outpost will serve the bakery’s signature candy and savory choices — together with its famed Cheese Rolls, Refugiados (guava and cheese strudels), and Potato Balls — whereas additionally debuting one thing fully new for Porto’s: a sit-down eating expertise full with desk service and a full bar.

Visitors will be capable to get pleasure from each indoor seating and an out of doors patio on the new location, which is able to take over the previous La Brea Bakery house close to the Disneyland Esplanade.

The enlargement is a part of a broader transformation of the Downtown Disney District, which has just lately added high-profile eating ideas together with Din Tai Fung and Paseo and Centrico as Disney appears to be like to reinforce its meals and beverage choices exterior its theme parks.

Porto’s roots hint again many years to founder Rosa Porto, who was born in Cuba and grew up surrounded by household baking traditions handed down by generations initially Galicia area of Spain.

In line with the Porto’s web site, after petitioning to go away Cuba, Rosa started promoting muffins from her residence to assist assist her household. When the Portos ultimately immigrated to California with little greater than their belongings and a dream for a greater life, Rosa continued baking for buddies and neighbors — rapidly constructing a repute for her muffins and pastries.

By 1976, the household opened the primary official Porto’s Bakery storefront on Sundown Boulevard in Echo Park. Rosa’s three kids later jouned the enterprise, serving to develop the model into one among Southern California’s hottest bakery chains.

Immediately, Porto’s operates six areas in Glendale, Burbank, Downey, Buena Park, West Covina and Northridge, with the Downtown Disney store set to grow to be the corporate’s seventh location.

Rosa Porto died in 2019, however her recipes — and her guideline that “high quality is the primary ingredient in all the things we do” — stay central to the family-run firm’s continued development.

Disney has not but introduced an official opening date for the Downtown Disney location.

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