Gusto Bread

"NYT best Us Bakeries 2024 The Times also honored Gusto Bread in Long Beach. What started as an underground bakery selling loaves of bread from a converted home living room became a storefront in Long Beach in September 2020. Arturo Enciso and Ana Belén Salatino offer creative conchas, multigrain breads and seasonal pastries informed by Mexican and Indigenous traditions. Take the Nixtamal Queen, for example: a spin on the kouign-amann made with sourdough and nixtamalized corn."

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"Has Mexican hot chocolate."

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"modern panadería based in Long Beach inspired by Mexican and Indigenous traditions, is known for its conchas, multigrain breads and seasonal pastries."

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"If it’s hard to imagine an improvement on the kouign-amann — that perfectly caramelized helix of salted butter and dough from Brittany — then it’s time to try the Nixtamal Queen, completely transformed by an addition of sourdough and nixtamalized corn. It’s just one taste of what Gusto can do. Informed by Mexican and Indigenous traditions, Arturo Enciso and Ana Belén Salatino, above, run a neighborhood panadería with an expressive, unconventional and highly delicious approach that extends to conchas, multigrain breads and all kinds of seasonal pastries that make the bakery a destination. TEJAL RAO 2710 East 4th Street, Long Beach, Calif.; 562-343-1881; gustobread.com"

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"Decent food but insultingly overpriced. Impossible to find parking and usually crowded. Super trash."

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"Dona Nixtamal Queen Orejas Mexican and European baking combined James Beard Awards: Long Beach’s Gusto Bread is up for outstanding bakery "

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"Some will say the star at Gusto Bread is the Doña, a twice-baked concha layered with almond cream, seasonal jam—peach one week, prickly pear the next—and finished with a dramatic storm of slivered almonds and powdered sugar. Others have eyes only for the Nixtamal Queen, an ingenious play on a classic kouign-amann featuring layer upon layer of masa, sourdough, and butter. Each flowerlike edge is gloriously caramelized and chewy, with just a whisper of sweet corn. Equally impressive are the orejas, thin and flaky pastry hearts dusted with heady toasted corn husk sugar. At the Long Beach bakery, which opened in 2020, baker Arturo Enciso and partner Ana Belén Salatino pay respect to tradition while blending Mexican and European approaches to baking, rewriting and marrying until each of their creations positively sings. Leaving Gusto with just one of these pastries is an ill-advised exercise in restraint. —Elazar Sontag"

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"Only SoCal bakery to make the list of Bon Appetite magazinesv creative bakeries nationwide"

@shima

"100% organic sourdough leavened panaderia"

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"Bakery. Heard the bread and pasties are bomb "

@drazanbran

"Down in Long Beach, Gusto Bread is an organic panadería specializing in pan and pan dulce made with 100% natural yeasts. You’ll find beautiful seeded loaves, studded with sunflower, pumpkin, and poppy seeds that go perfect with a cup of coffee, or just a quick smear of butter. Semi-sweet pan loaves are made with a house-milled yellow corn, and conchas come with a thick sugar cookie frosting and can be eaten throughout the day. They also carry a rotating list of weekend-only specials, like jalapeño cheddar biscuits and strawberry jujube tamales, so make sure to check those out as well."

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