Croque Voyage

What Croque Voyage is

Croque Voyage is a small bakery at Av Miguel Hidalgo 76A in colonia San Lucas, a short walk from the centre of Coyoacán. Its specialism is laminated dough: croissants, kouign-amann, danish. The owner describes the focus as process and fermentation rather than variety, and local press has taken to calling it the new viral croissant address in the city, which is the kind of label that says more about the queue than the pastry.

For the weeks around Day of the Dead the bakery adds a pan de muerto collection, and that is what brought me. In 2026 there are four versions, from 65 to 90 MXN.

Who is behind it

The bakery is run by a baker named Daniel, credited in Spanish-language coverage as Daniel López, who has described the Talavera as bread you admire before you eat it, a piece of art and memory for the ofrenda. Beyond that the public record is thin, and I want to flag one trap: there is another baker called Daniel López, from Saltillo, behind a different bakery, whose family story circulates widely. I found nothing connecting the two, so treat them as different people unless the bakery says otherwise.

The Talavera, and why it looks like that

Talavera poblana is the tin-glazed ceramic of Puebla, white ground with cobalt blue, and it carries a Denomination of Origin, which is the same legal protection that governs tequila and mezcal. The cobalt is the signature.

Croque Voyage’s version translates that onto bread. The pan is finished in a white glaze and then painted, piece by piece, by hand, in cobalt strokes. Because each is painted individually, no two are identical, which is the part that makes it worth filming and the part that makes it worth ordering a day ahead. The design first appeared in 2025 as a tribute to the folk art of Puebla and returned for 2026.

How the menu works

The pan de muerto line is seasonal and short. It appears in the weeks before Day of the Dead and goes again afterwards.

• Talavera Vainilla-Mezcal, 90 MXN. Orange blossom and vanilla in the dough with a few drops of mezcal, white glaze, cobalt blue painted by hand.
• Pitahaya-Tuna, 85 MXN. A bright pink coating that takes its colour from the fruit rather than from dye.
• Guayaba y Diplomática, 85 MXN. Filled with a light guava cream, built on one of the bakery’s better-known flavours.
• Tradicional, 65 MXN. Orange blossom, orange zest and butter, and nothing else.
• Champurrado with pinole is made alongside them.
• Gift boxes are 20 MXN more for a single and 30 for a double.

The rest of the year the counter is laminated dough, so if you go outside the season this is a croissant trip rather than a pan de muerto one.

What I ate

The Talavera is the one that opens the box and the one worth the 90 pesos, and the mezcal sits far enough back that it reads as warmth rather than as a stunt. The guava with diplomat cream was my favourite to actually eat, which is a different question from which is the most beautiful. The Pitahaya-Tuna is the one that photographs loudest, that pink being fruit rather than dye.

What it costs

Item	Price
Talavera Vainilla-Mezcal, hand-painted	90 MXN
Pitahaya-Tuna	85 MXN
Guayaba y Diplomática	85 MXN
Tradicional	65 MXN
Gift box, single · double	20 · 30 MXN extra

A box of all four with gift packaging comes to a little over 350 MXN, about 18 USD, which for a hand-painted bread is not much. These are 2026 season prices and the collection is reissued each year, so expect them to move.

How to book

Croque Voyage is a bakery counter, not a restaurant, so there is nothing to reserve. What matters is ordering.

• Order the Talavera a day ahead. It is painted by hand and the bakery does not keep a stock of them sitting out.
• Instagram @croque_v is the channel to message, and the only one the bakery publicises.
• Ask for the gift box if the bread is travelling. It is what protects the icing.
• Delivery works. Sending an Uber for a pre-paid order is the normal way people outside Coyoacán get these.

Getting there

• Address: Av Miguel Hidalgo 76A, colonia San Lucas, Coyoacán, 04030 Mexico City.
• The area: a short walk from the centre of Coyoacán, so it pairs with the Jardín Centenario and the market.
• Metro: Coyoacán and Viveros on Line 3 are both a walk away.
• By car: Coyoacán street parking is difficult at weekends, and an Uber or DiDi is the simpler option, especially if you are collecting an order.

Before you go

• Order the Talavera the day before. This is the one thing that decides whether the trip works.
• It is seasonal. The collection runs around Day of the Dead. Last season the Talavera stopped on 15 November, and the bakery has not restated an end date for this year.
• The natural-colour claim is about the pink one. The Pitahaya-Tuna takes its colour from fruit. The cobalt on the Talavera is tinted icing.
• Sunday is the short day, closing at 17:30 rather than 20:30.
• Go for croissants out of season. Laminated dough is what this bakery actually does.
• Combine it with Coyoacán itself rather than making a special trip for a box of bread.
• Check the hours before you go. The hours on this page come from the venue’s public listings, which drift, so confirm on Google Maps or on Instagram before a special trip.

Watch the visit

The reel above is the short version, and it opens my 2026 pan de muerto guide: the brushstrokes, the cobalt and the break-open. For the rest of the city, open my map or browse the Mexico City recommendations.