23 stores · curated ORBIS register
Spanish pastry is theatre behind glass, Boqueria sugar sculpture at one end and Madrid violet candies at the other. Pastisseria Escribà builds chocolate sculptures and artistic cakes as the Boqueria spectacle. Hofmann runs a pastry shop, macarons and a Michelin-starred restaurant under one name. La Violeta wraps violet candies and sweets as Madrid confectionery. Pastry has a short window; eat it standing at the counter and carry the violet candies home instead, since they keep for months.
El Born, Barcelona
Croissant in Barcelona — third-generation pastry chef Paula Grosset's tiny shop produces laminated perfection: butter croissants, pain au chocolat, and seasonal creations that rival Paris. Go.
Best for The butter croissant, the pain au chocolate, and the early morning queue.
Gothic Quarter, Barcelona
Heavenly sweets from convents — a shop selling pastries, jams, and biscuits made by nuns in Spanish convents, from Seville to Santiago. The marzipan, yemas, and mantecados are divine.
Best for The convent-made sweets, the marzipan, and the unique sourcing.
El Born, Barcelona
Hofmann is a Barcelona culinary and pastry school whose restaurant has held a Michelin star since 2004. The group trains professional chefs and pastry cooks, operates a fine-dining restaurant and connects its teaching to professional pastry and gastronomy.
Best for The pastry shop, the macarons, and the Michelin-starred restaurant.
El Born, Barcelona
Hofmann's pastry business opened in 2008, following Mey Hofmann's earlier Barcelona cooking school. The El Born shop is at Carrer dels Flassaders 44 and sells cakes and individual pastries, with chocolates and baked goods also in its catalogue. It is distinct from both the school and the separate Turó Park pastry location.
Best for Individual pastries and cakes at Hofmann’s El Born shop
Hofmann's pastry shop opened in 2008 as another part of Mey Hofmann's Barcelona food business. It followed the cooking school she had founded in 1983, but the two should not be treated as the same establishment. The El Born pastry shop is at Carrer dels Flassaders 44, separate from the school's earlier Argenteria address.
The shop's catalogue includes cakes and individual pastries. Chocolates and baked goods offer smaller purchases. Its connection to the school provides a background in pastry training, while the retail counter serves people choosing something to eat or take home. A course enquiry belongs to a different part of the business.
A second pastry location at Turó Park is listed on the current website. Choose the branch first, then check its current selection and opening arrangements. The El Born shop is a useful destination for a pastry-focused stop in the neighbourhood, without requiring a restaurant booking. The size and collection arrangements for a celebration cake need a more specific enquiry than a casual purchase at the counter.
Gran Via / La Boqueria, Barcelona
Barcelona's most theatrical pastry shop — Christian Escribà creates edible sculptures, chocolate fantasies, and the city's most artistic cakes. The La Boqueria outpost is a riot of color and sugar.
Best for The chocolate sculptures, the artistic cakes, and the Boqueria spectacle.
Granada
A tiny family confectionery crowded with chocolates, sweets and traditional seasonal candies. Founded in 1929 by pastry maker Rafael Ríos Ruiz.
Best for Tiny family confectionery crowded with chocolates, sweets and traditional seasonal candies
Granada
A historic provisions shop for nuts, confectionery, cheese, honey and wine. Originated as a colonial-goods grocer in 1850.
Best for Nuts, confectionery, cheese, honey and wine
Calle Mayor 10, 28013 Madrid / Madrid / Spain
El Riojano is a Madrid pastry shop at Calle Mayor 10, with a history dating to 1855. Its range includes cakes and confectionery, with an online shop for ordering from the bakery.
Best for Cakes and confectionery
Madrid / Spain
Since 1915 this small shop on Plaza de Canalejas has sold its signature violet-flavoured candies and sugar-coated violet petals, Madrid keepsakes wrapped in traditional paper. Sweets, chocolates, and gift tins are sold in the store and shipped through its online shop.
Best for Violet candies, sweets, chocolates, confectionery
Morella / Spain
This family pasteleria on Morella's Calle Segura Barreda specializes in the town's signature flaons alongside international pastries, cakes and tarts, including Romanian and Polish specialities. Its savory counter turns out cocas, empanadas and rolls, with custom orders taken for weddings and other celebrations.
Best for Signature Morella flaons alongside Romanian and Polish pastries
Baiona, Pontevedra
Anaco’s counter focuses on handmade Galician pastries, cakes and tarts prepared for everyday treats and celebrations. Its central Baiona location makes it a practical stop for takeaway sweets rather than a full restaurant.
Best for Handmade Galician cakes and pastries
Seville / Spain
A Seville institution since 1885, Confitería La Campana still bears the title "proveedor de la Real Casa" and mixes its pastries by hand over a 24-hour process at its landmark Calle Sierpes shop. Beyond retail sales, the confectionery also caters weddings and events.
Best for Pastry, Confectionery
Seville / Spain
El Torno has sold sweets baked by cloistered nuns from Seville's convents since 1989, operating out of a small shop tucked beside the cathedral in Plaza del Cabildo. The confectionery sells its yemas, pestiños, and holiday sweets both in-store and through its online shop.
Best for Convent sweets, Pastries
Astorga, León, Spain
Cecinas Pablo began in 1993 when its founders, unable to find cecina that met their own standards, started curing beef in the basement of their Astorga shop using traditional salting and smoking. The company, based on Calle La Cecina in Astorga, has since expanded into jamón serrano, Iberian products and pastrami while keeping cecina de vacuno as its core product.
Best for Astorga-cured cecina and jamón
Murcia / Spain
Confiteria Maria Jose is a family pastry shop in the Murcian huerta village of Javali Viejo, baking dulces, tartas and savoury pastel de carne by hand since 1987. The counter also carries local wines and beers chosen to pair with the artisan bakes made daily in its obrador.
Best for Pastel de carne, dulces, tartas and Murcian drinks
Burgos
This family confectionery has baked in Burgos since 1972, turning out the flaky palmeras, hojaldres and celebration cakes that fill its glass cases. Everything is made in the house obrador rather than bought in, a point of pride in a city that takes its pastry seriously.
Best for Palmeras and artisan pastries
Andalusia
This long-standing Medina-Sidonia confectioner makes the town's protected sweets, led by the honey-and-almond IGP Alfajor de Medina Sidonia. Amarguillos, turrones and other traditional pastries fill the shop on Plaza de Espana, with orders also taken online.
Best for Traditional Medina-Sidonia alfajores and almond sweets
Murcia / Spain
Founded in 1902 by José Lorca in San Javier and now run by third-generation owner Fran Pardo in central Murcia, La Peladilla is famed for its trademarked pastel de cierva, a savory-sweet chicken and egg pastry created around 1920. The shop bakes tartas, croissants and pastries daily, hand-wraps its century-old Holy Week bergamot caramels, and has won regional honors including the 1999 Guinda de Oro.
Best for Century-old trademarked pastel de cierva and hand-wrapped Holy Week caramels
José Lorca founded La Peladilla in San Javier in 1902; the confitería is now run by third-generation owner Fran Pardo from a shop in central Murcia, with his own children expected to eventually take over. Its best-known creation, the pastel de cierva, a savory-sweet pastry filled with chicken and hard-boiled egg, dates to around 1920 and is protected as a registered trademark, alongside the La Peladilla name itself.
The confitería also hand-wraps bergamot caramels for Holy Week from a recipe it describes as a century old, and bakes tartas, croissants and other pastries fresh daily, staying open every day of the year including holidays. Its Roscón de Reyes marks the Three Kings season alongside custom fondant cakes for other celebrations.
The shop has collected regional recognition over the decades, including the Chamber of Commerce's Mercurio Prize and the Guinda de Oro from the regional pastry artisans' association, both in 1999, a Solete Guide Repsol listing in 2024, and a 2012 diploma recognizing a collaboration honoring King Felipe VI.
Lugo / Spain
Panadería Fraga has made traditional Galician bread for more than 40 years from its bakehouse in Palas de Rei, with a branch shop in Lugo. Its wheat loaves use just flour, starter, yeast, water and salt, alongside pastries, cakes, empanadas and roast meats made to order.
Best for Traditional Galician bread and empanadas
Alcubierre, Huesca
Now in its third generation, this bakery on Alcubierre's main square has made turrón and traditional pastries since 1922, roughly midway between Huesca and Zaragoza. Its almond, chocolate-praline, and marzipan turrones sit alongside caracolas and trenzas baked to the same recipes the shop opened with.
Best for Handmade turrón and traditional pastry from a bakery running since 1922
Calle Poeta Prudencio 4, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain
Pastelería Iturbe bakes from its own obrador on Calle Poeta Prudencio in Logroño, turning out macarons, cakes and seasonal pastries the shop describes as part of the city's collective memory. The range expands considerably each December for Christmas, with orders taken by phone, WhatsApp or in person.
Best for Artisan cakes, macarons and seasonal pastries
Palencia / Spain
Rigodón has run in central Palencia since 1978, its founders bringing lifetimes in the trade to a shop on Avenida de Madrid making Castilian cakes, pastries and breads fresh each day in its own obrador. The counter turns seasonal with Holy Week, Christmas, All Saints' and Candlemas specialties, alongside custom tortas for celebrations.
Best for Daily-made Castilian pastries and seasonal Holy Week and Christmas sweets
Burgos
Pasteleria Silma is a Burgos artisan bakery whose daily output covers tortas, tarts and traditional pastries made on the premises. It handles celebration cakes to order alongside the everyday breakfast repertoire of a neighbourhood obrador.
Best for Artisan cakes and traditional sweets
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