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ChaCha Bedoy Donuts & Bakery
The ChaCha Bedoy Donuts & Bakery storefront at golden hour — cream stucco, red awning, the painted baker-girl sign above the door.

San Antonio · Est. 1961

Pan dulce, donuts, and sixty-four years of mornings.

Three generations of the Bedoy family, baking before sunrise on Babcock Road. Voted San Antonio's #1 doughnut shop by the Express-News.

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Baking since
1961
Express-News rank
#1
Generations
3
  • "The #1 doughnut shop in San Antonio."— San Antonio Express-News
  • "Top 10 bakeries in the city."— San Antonio Express-News
  • "Same recipes since 1961."— Bedoy Family
  • "The #1 doughnut shop in San Antonio."— San Antonio Express-News
  • "Top 10 bakeries in the city."— San Antonio Express-News
  • "Same recipes since 1961."— Bedoy Family

What we bake

Four counters. One family. Sixty-four years of practice.

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Out of the oven

What lands on the trays before you're awake.

Cinnamon rolls, orejas, brazo de reina — the cases fill up by six. By nine, the cinnamon rolls are usually gone.

  • Tray of glazed cinnamon rolls, swirls dark with cinnamon under a thin sugar glaze.
  • Sheet pan of sugared empanadas — pink strawberry, cinnamon, and blueberry hand pies.
  • Sheet tray of pink-iced bar slices fresh from the bakery kitchen, frosting smooth and vibrant.
  • Tray of chocolate-iced cake donuts, half topped with rainbow sprinkles.
  • Tray of golden orejas — caramelized puff-pastry palmiers stacked in rows.
  • Sheet tray of iced thumbprint pan dulce filled with apricot, strawberry, lemon, and cream cheese.
  • Tray of coconut-dusted swiss rolls — strawberry jelly, pineapple, and cinnamon swirl slices.
  • Glazed braided twist donuts packed tight in the display case under warm light.
  • Red plate piled high with freshly made filled donuts — jelly-filled and custard-topped, glaze still fresh.
  • Tray of filled donuts topped with strawberry, lemon, blueberry, and Bavarian cream dots.
  • Tray of oversized bakery muffins in the display case — blueberry with sugar crust, pecan, and chocolate chip.
  • Close-up tray of honey-glazed braided twist donuts with glossy lacquered finish.
  • Filled donuts in rows — strawberry, blueberry, Bavarian cream, chocolate-iced cream.
  • Sheet pan of golden lattice-top spinach and cheese puff pastries fresh from the oven.
Inside ChaCha Bedoy: a long stainless case stocked with conchas, donas, kolaches, and pan dulce, hand-lettered glass labels reading DONA · CONCHA · BAKER · KOLACHE.

Step inside

The case is the menu.

Hand-lettered signs on glass. Trays pulled straight from the back while they're still warm. You point, we grab it with tissue paper, and you're out the door in under a minute. That's how it's worked since 1961.

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San Antonio, through & through

Game-day cookies, iced by hand the morning of tip-off.

Wemby jerseys, Castle jerseys, basketballs, Fiesta sets — every cookie iced by hand in our kitchen on Babcock. Call us at least 48 hours ahead for custom sets and we'll have them ready when you pull up.

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Tray of hand-iced Spurs cookies — orange basketballs, black Wemby and Castle jerseys, Fiesta-color SPURS shapes.

Our story

It started with one oven and a recipe written on a napkin.

In 1961, the Bedoy family opened a small bakery in San Antonio. Three generations later, we're still mixing the same dough at 4 a.m., still cutting donuts by hand, still teaching the kids the way Manuel Bedoy taught his.

— from the Bedoy family —

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A red bowl heaped with the morning's variety: glazed donuts, conchas, empanadas, marranitos, churros, and a kolache — the Bedoy Sunday assortment.

Come by

We're open before the sun is.

The cases are stocked by 6 a.m. six days a week (closed Mondays — we rest). Walk in, or call ahead and we'll set it aside.

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Hours

Monday
Closed
Tuesday
6 AM – 4 PM
Wednesday
6 AM – 4 PM
Thursday
6 AM – 4 PM
Friday
6 AM – 4 PM
Saturday
6 AM – 4 PM
Sunday
6 AM – 3 PM