Mission Street and Gellert Boulevard make up what locals have called Little Manila for decades, and the bakery counters along them are where birthdays, baptisms, and Sunday mornings get planned. True Filipino-American bakeries inside the Town of Colma proper are scarce, so this guide sticks to the Daly City corridor that everyone crosses the line for anyway.
The Bread Basket Bakery, 7099 Mission St. Founded in 1977 by parents who immigrated through Guam and now run by daughter Liza Cavan with her family.
Daly City named it a Business of the Year in December 2021, and Kapwa Gardens’ “Rising with Tradition” profile clocked the first crew arriving at 2 a.m. to bake the day’s mini pan de sal. Open Mon–Sat 6:30 a.m.–5 p.m., Sun until noon. Lola-approved territory.
House of Silvanas, 2055 Gellert Blvd. The only U.S. branch of the bakery founded in 1978 in San Lorenzo Village, Manila by Mary Ann Sagarbarria.
Zagat called the cashew-meringue silvanas “the Filipino answer to French macarons,” SF Weekly ranked them in its Top 50 Bay Area bites, and Eater SF still includes the shop in its Daly City guide. Closed Mondays; special orders can be picked up at Chibog two doors down outside open hours…