What are Monte Alpán Bakery's opening hours?

Monte Alpán is open Monday to Saturday from 7:30am to 3pm and closed on Sundays. It is a bakery first, so the widest choice of bread and pastries is in the morning. By early afternoon the popular loaves are usually gone.

How much does breakfast at Monte Alpán cost?

Monte Alpán is cheap by Puerto Escondido standards. Listings put the typical spend at under 100 MXN per person, roughly 5 US dollars, for a pastry and a coffee, and a full breakfast plate with a drink still lands well under the cost of a hotel breakfast in La Punta. Prices move, so treat this as a guide.

Is Monte Alpán really the best bakery in Puerto Escondido?

That is how locals describe it, and it is the claim I put in my reel because people repeat it. It is a small owner-run bakery rather than a large operation, and the argument for it rests on the sourdough being baked on the premises and the coffee being properly made. Puerto Escondido has several good bakeries, so treat best as a local verdict rather than a measured fact.

What should you order at Monte Alpán?

The sourdough is the reason people drive across town, so buy a loaf even if you are also eating in. On the plate side the sweet and savoury toasts, the chilaquiles and the oatmeal are the breakfast options, and the pastry counter runs to croissants, chocolate croissants, rosemary and cheese buns and baguettes. The coffee is made with house almond milk if you want it.

Does Monte Alpán have non-dairy milk?

Yes, and it is one of the details that makes the place worth the walk. Monte Alpán makes its own almond milk rather than pouring a carton, and it is offered with the coffee. Ask when you order, since the house batch can run out on a busy morning.

Where is Monte Alpán Bakery?

Monte Alpán is at Alejandro Cárdenas Peralta 160A, Brisas de Zicatela 70934, in the part of Puerto Escondido everyone calls La Punta. It is on the same sand street as several of the neighbourhood's restaurants, a few minutes on foot from most La Punta hotels and hostels, and about 15 to 20 minutes by taxi from the centre of town.

Do you need a reservation at Monte Alpán?

No. Monte Alpán is a walk-in bakery with a handful of tables and a takeaway counter, and it does not take bookings. If you want a table rather than a paper bag, come before about 9:30am or after noon, since the middle of the morning is when the room fills.

Is Monte Alpán good for working on a laptop?

It is not really built for it. Monte Alpán is a small bakery with limited seating and a steady queue, so a long working session is out of place there. For that, [Notto by Guiño](/recommendations/puerto-escondido/notto-by-guino/) a few streets away has the air conditioning, the fast Wi-Fi and the tolerance for laptops.

Monte Alpán Bakery Puerto Escondido: hours and prices

Sourdough baked on-site, variety of pastries and great coffee with house-made almond milk. Now they offer great breakfast options as well, like sweet & savory toasts, chilaquiles and oatmeal. ☕

Monte Alpán is a small owner-run bakery and coffee shop on a sand street in La Punta Zicatela, baking its sourdough on site and making its own almond milk. Here is what is on the counter, what it costs, when to go, and how to find it.

What Monte Alpán is

Monte Alpán is a small bakery and coffee shop on Alejandro Cárdenas Peralta, one of the sand streets that make up La Punta Zicatela at the southern end of Puerto Escondido. It bakes its sourdough on the premises, runs a pastry counter, and serves a short breakfast menu at a handful of tables.

It is the kind of place where the scale is the point. The owners are behind the counter, the bread comes out of the oven a few metres from where you eat it, and the operation does not try to be a restaurant. Google reviews average around 4.7 out of 5, which for a bakery this size in this neighbourhood is a lot of people agreeing.

Locals call it the best bakery in Puerto Escondido, and people drive in from the centre of town for the bread rather than buying closer to home. That is a local verdict rather than a measured one, and there are other good bakeries in Puerto Escondido, but the fact that the drive happens at all tells you something.

Who is behind it

Monte Alpán is owner run, and on a normal morning you are served by the people who own it. There is no chef biography here and no group behind it, which is the honest answer rather than a gap: this is a two-person-scale bakery with a wood counter and an oven, not a project with a press kit.

What that means in practice is consistency and small batches. The sourdough is made and baked in the same room. The almond milk for the coffee is made in house instead of poured from a carton, which is unusual anywhere and rare in a beach neighbourhood. When I filmed there in August 2026 the thing I noticed first was that it feels like everything is made with care, which is not a fact you can source but is the reason the place has the reputation it has.

Monte Alpán runs as a bakery counter plus a short sit-down breakfast card. Order at the counter, eat in or take away.

Bread: sourdough loaves baked on site, plus baguettes. This is the flagship and it sells out.
Pastries: croissants, chocolate croissants, rosemary and cheese buns, and a rotating sweet counter.
Breakfast plates: sweet and savoury toasts, chilaquiles, oatmeal. The savoury toasts include avocado and egg.
Coffee: properly made, with house-made almond milk as the non-dairy option.
Takeaway: normal and expected. A loaf and two coffees to go is the standard La Punta order.

What I ate

I went for the breakfast side rather than only the bread. The coffee was genuinely good, which is not a given in La Punta, and the house almond milk was the detail that stood out. Alongside it I worked through the toast section, sweet and savoury, and the pastry counter. The bread is what I would carry away next time. Nothing on the counter is complicated, and that is the appeal.

What it costs

Monte Alpán is the cheapest place in my Puerto Escondido batch, and by a wide margin.

Item	Price
Typical spend per person	Under 100 MXN, about 5 USD
Pastry and a coffee	Comfortably inside that figure
Full breakfast plate with a drink	Still well below a hotel breakfast in La Punta
Sourdough loaf to take away	Priced by the loaf, ask at the counter

Card payment is accepted, which is not universal in La Punta, but bring some cash anyway because connectivity in the neighbourhood is unreliable. Prices move, so confirm at the counter.

Do you need a reservation

No. Monte Alpán is walk in only with a small number of tables and a takeaway counter. There is a phone number, +52 954 164 2601, if you want to check the day’s hours or ask whether the sourdough is still available, and the Instagram account is @monte_alpan.

The practical timing:

7:30am to 9:30am: full counter, easiest table.
9:30am to noon: the busiest stretch. Expect a short wait and possibly no table.
Noon to 3pm: quiet again, but the best bread has usually gone.
Sundays: closed.

Getting there

Address: Alejandro Cárdenas Peralta 160A, Brisas de Zicatela 70934, Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca.
Neighbourhood: La Punta Zicatela. Most hotels and hostels there are a five to ten minute walk away.
From the centre of Puerto Escondido: about 15 to 20 minutes by taxi or colectivo.
From Puerto Escondido airport: about 20 to 25 minutes by car.
Parking: informal street parking on sand. Walking is easier, and locals arrive on foot or by scooter.

Before you go

Come early for the bread. The sourdough is the reason to make the trip and it does not last the day.
Closed Sundays. Plan the bread run for a weekday or Saturday.
Ask for the house almond milk if you take your coffee without dairy.
Bring cash as a backup. Cards work, but La Punta loses signal often.
Do not plan a working morning here. It is small and busy; use Notto by Guiño for laptop hours.
Pair it with the neighbourhood. Chicama is the evening version of this street, and ENNA is the sit-down breakfast a few minutes away.
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 the venue’s own channels before a special trip.

Watch the visit

The reel above is the counter, the oven and the plates, filmed in August 2026. For everywhere else I ate on this coast, open my map or browse the Puerto Escondido recommendations.