Liberty Station · Artisan bread, Bakery cafe

Con Pane Rustic Breads & Cafe

A Liberty Station bakery café for French-hearth levain loaves, pastries, coffee and bread-built sandwiches.

What people go for here

Customers consistently frame Con Pane as both a serious bread bakery and a useful Liberty Station café. Rosemary bread, cinnamon rolls, Turkey Cobb and sandwiches recur as favorites; staff is often praised as helpful. The practical cautions are predictable lunch congestion and limited availability of the weekend chocolate bread.

  • rosemary sourdough
  • Point Loma Sourdough
  • brioche cinnamon rolls
  • Turkey Cobb sandwich
  • Pane Cioccolata

Worth knowing: popular weekend Pane Cioccolata is availability-sensitive. lunch crowds can make the room hectic.

Signature bakes

  1. 01Point Loma Sourdough
  2. 02Rosemary Olive Oil bread
  3. 03Turkey Cobb sandwich
  4. 04Brioche cinnamon roll
  5. 05Pane Cioccolata

Bread, pastry, savory, cake

Bread
More than 20 hand-shaped breads use natural levain and an 18-hour rise before baking on a French stone hearth. Daily loaves include Pain au Levain, Point Loma Sourdough, seeded baguettes, multigrain and focaccia.
Pastry
Brioche cinnamon rolls, chocolate-hazelnut twists, orange sugar buns, rotating rustic scones, cookies, croissants, danishes and tarts.
Savory
Turkey Cobb, Italian Salami, Almost Grilled Cheese and other sandwiches; avocado toast, focaccia/Roman pizza, bread plates and box lunches.

When to go

Best time: Morning gives the broadest pastry and bread choice; avoid the lunch peak for a calmer café visit.

Ordering

Walk in
Walk-ins are welcome for bread, pastry, coffee and café meals.
Custom orders
Catering and group orders are available through a dedicated official ordering path.
How it works
Counter-service bakery café offering dine-in, takeout, online ordering, catering and group orders.

The room

Inside
The café has indoor seating suitable for solo visits or meeting friends.
Coffee
Café Moto fair-trade organic drip and espresso drinks, cold brew, tea, cocoa, juice, wine and mimosas.

Good to know

  • The tradition: French stone-hearth and levain bread traditions with contemporary California flavors
  • Con Pane bakes every bread and pastry daily, using levain, an 18-hour rise and a French stone hearth. The menu is unusually useful for planning: it publishes daily and weekly breads, dietary markers, sandwiches, coffee and rotating sweets.
  • Rotating: German Rye Monday and Wednesday
  • Rotating: Gruyere & Chive Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday
  • Rotating: Cranberry Orange Walnut Monday, Wednesday and Friday
  • Rotating: Jalapeño Cheddar Boule Wednesday
  • Rotating: Challah Friday
  • Rotating: Pane Cioccolata Saturday and Sunday
  • Rotating: rotating rustic scones
  • Diet: Vegetarian options
  • Diet: selected items can be prepared gluten-free or vegetarian where marked
  • Diet: dairy-free, peanut-free and egg-free options are identified on the menu
  • comfortable for reading alone or meeting friends
  • helpful, attentive staff
  • strong breakfast-and-lunch appeal

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