Azucar

"A small, modern & sleek Cuban bakery serving pastries, Cuban coffee & traditional Cuban sandwiches."

Azúcar is a San Diego Cuban-style patisserie led by Vivian Hernandez-Jackson, offering pastries, desserts, Cuban coffee, and savory lunch items from a Newport Avenue storefront in Ocean Beach. Vivian combines classical French training with Cuban roots to produce items such as guava cheese pastelitos made with all-butter puff pastry, scones in flavors like raspberry passion fruit and coffee toffee, and desserts including the Divina white chocolate cake and key lime pie square. Vivian has been baking since age seven, earned the Grande Diplome from Le Cordon Bleu in London, worked as a pastry chef at Claridge's in London and Loews Hotel in Miami Beach, and has been serving customers since 2008. Located at 4820 Newport Avenue, San Diego, CA 92107, in the Ocean Beach neighborhood. Reviewers frequently return on repeat visits, single out the scones, meat pies, and specialty pastries like the pistachio cherry tea cake and bourbon butterscotch custard, and note the Cuban coffee as a highlight.