Rankings

Best bakeries

Nine bakeries and cake shops in Torre del Mar carry a public rating, with more than 1,600 reviews between them. In Spain the two trades overlap, and most of these sell both bread and cakes.

The table splits by what they actually make

The top of the table is a sourdough bakery, with an organic bread bakery right behind it, while the most reviewed business of the trade is a traditional pastelería with more than five hundred opinions, well down the list. They are not competing for the same customer. The score puts the small specialists on top because they are the only three in the trade with a website of their own, and the volume column shows who the town has been going to for decades.

What to buy and when

Bread is bought daily and it goes stale fast, because it has nothing in it to stop that. Buy in the morning, and buy for one day.
Check the closing day. El Mastrén closes at weekends, Flores on Sundays and CakesMery on Sundays and Mondays.
Ask for the local speciality. This is Málaga: several of these make tortas and Christmas sweets to their own recipe, and they are only around in season.

Supermarkets are not in this table

Supermarket bakery counters are ranked with the supermarkets. Panadería Salvador belongs to a chain of bakeries, and the rest are independent.

Ranked by the portal score

Ranked by the portal score
#	Business	Score	Rating	Address	Phone
1	No. 1Fermento Casa de Panaderos	52.7 / 100	4.8 (24)	Avenida de Andalucía, 86A	+34 604 97 79 48
2	El Mastrén Pan Ecológico	50.9 / 100	4.7 (55)	Calle Princesa, 6	+34 650 59 98 10
3	Panadería Salvador	50.7 / 100	4.2 (306)	Avenida de Andalucía, 87	+34 952 00 22 27
4	Pastelería Treschocolates	22.0 / 100	4.7 (341)	Calle del Río, 26	+34 634 98 82 67
5	CakesMery Bakery	21.8 / 100	5.0 (65)	Calle Princesa, 8	+34 624 16 11 23
6	Panadería Flores	20.1 / 100	4.7 (135)	Plaza Axarquía, 6	+34 679 12 34 41
7	Obrador de Pastelería Oetzmann	19.0 / 100	4.6 (162)	Calle Saladero Viejo, 3	+34 622 11 56 81
8	Pastelería Panadería Ortiz	13.7 / 100	4.1 (538)	Calle del Mar, 27	+34 952 54 50 33
9	Panadería La Sagrada Familia	12.7 / 100	4.0 (5)	Calle del Río	+34 951 25 92 19
n/a	Pastelería La Paz	not ranked	n/a	Paseo Marítimo de Levante	n/a

Score out of 100 calculated by this portal from public data: average Google rating adjusted for how many people back it (20), number of reviews on a logarithmic scale (12), the business's own website, whether it loads, is clear and publishes its details (62), and a published telephone number (6). The website and the phone only count when that check has been made across the whole trade, so that the comparison is between equals; otherwise the score comes from rating and reviews alone. Each listing carries the date its data was verified.

No public rating recorded, so it does not enter the ranking.

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