If you’ve ever held a pastel-yellow box full of Cuban pastries in Los Angeles, you’ve most likely tasted the legacy of Raul Porto Sr. and his family's Porto's Bakery.
If you’ve ever held a pastel-yellow box full of Cuban pastries in Los Angeles, you’ve most likely tasted the legacy of Raul Porto Sr. On Wednesday the patriarch and co-founder of Porto’s, one of the region’s most popular bakery chains, died at the age of 92. Porto’s company shared the news in an Instagram post late Friday morning, adding that he died peacefully, surrounded by his family.
The cake orders began immediately, and the couple sold her treats out of their home kitchen for years. When the Portos arrived in Los Angeles, Raul Porto Sr. found work as a janitor and other jobs while his wife’s underground bakery business took off, and together they built Porto’s into an L.A. legend. “Raul Sr. would assist whenever he could, even while working at another local bakery,” the Porto family shared on Instagram.
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