Coronado Home Bakery


By Rachel Lieu, Archivist/Registrar Coronado Historical Association


Winter holidays are a wonderful excuse to stop by the local bakery for cookies, cakes, pies and special breads for the numer- ous holiday gatherings that are sprinkled throughout the final months of every year. Coronado has been lucky enough to have a bakery in town since the early days of incor- poration. The longest running bakery was owned by a member of the Anderson family for over eighty years. Carl Theodore Anderson came to San Diego from Sweden in the 1890s, and migrated to Coronado as a baker’s helper at the Hotel del Coronado in 1899. He met his wife, Carolina, who worked as a maid for a lo- cal family. After a few years as Head Baker and Pastry Chief, Carl decided to strike out on his own, baking bread and delivering to


The Anderson family opened a bakery at 956 Orange Avenue in 1911; today the building houses Villa Nueva Pastry Caffe, and baked goods are still offered for sale there 100 years later. (Photos courtesy of CHA)


Recent Photo of Villa Nueva Pastry Caffe (Courtesy of CHA) 24


customers throughout Coronado. On April 11, 1911, Carl decided to open his own store front, Coronado Home Bakery, at 956 Orange Avenue. At the time, it was the only building on the 900 Block of Orange Avenue. For the next 81 years a member of the Ander- son family owned a bakery at this location and the popular spot was renamed “Ander- son’s Bakery.” Three generations of Ander- sons worked in the bakery and the building is still owned by their descendants. Today Coronadans are still able to pick up sweet treats at this location, now the Villa Nueva Pastry Caffe.


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