Bakery restaurants in USA
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Alki Bakery
This is a great place to grab a coffee and pastry, then sit down at a window seat to partake of the bakery’s free wi-fi connection while digging your beach-front view. Cinnamon rolls and cookies reign supreme, but you can also get takeout sandwiches and salads to eat on the beach.
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Sprinkles Cupcakes
Pay $3.25 for a cupcake? And you have to wait in that line out the door? Are you kidding – hey, that looks pretty good. Red Velvet? With cream-cheese frosting? And that one? Peanut-butter chocolate? Eighteen more varieties inside? Uhh, can you move over a little?
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Big Sur Bakery & Restaurant
This funkily decorated, warmly lit house has offerings that change through the day and season. Wood-fired pizzas and stellar burgers share the lineup with more refined - but just as satisfying - dishes like wild salmon with succotash. The bakery pours the best coffee in Big Sur and sells its own house granola. In the words of one local, 'their ham and cheese croissant is...mwa! Tasty shit.' Poke around the spirit garden next door.
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Bleeding Heart Bakery
With punk-rock posters, hot-pink wallpaper, the relentless Sex Pistols soundtrack and tattooed counter staff, owners Michelle and Vinny Garcia opened the country’s first wholly organic bakery. The ‘punk rock pastries’ are the draw, but smaller treats (many of which are vegan) and lunch sandwiches are pulled off with flamboyant flair.
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Lovejoy’s Tea Room
All the chintz you’d expect from an English tea room, but with a San Francisco point of view: art curators talk video-installation art over Lapsang souchong, scones and clotted cream, while dual dads take their daughters and dolls out for the ‘wee tea’ of tiny sandwiches, a petit four and hot chocolate.
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Spruce Confections
Boulder's go-to bakehouse, where the favorites are the Ol' B Cookie (chocolate, oats, cinnamon and coconut) and the Black Bottom Cupcake (a chocolate cupcake with cheesecake in the middle). Pair either with the Spruce Juice, possibly the world's greatest iced vanilla latte. They have sinful scones and filling salads too.
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Europane
With its concrete floors, small wooden tables and jumbled baskets of unmarked pastries, Europane doesn’t exactly ooze warmth. But buttery bearclaws, fluffy croissants and smooth cups of coffee make up for any lack of coffeehouse coziness. Arrive early for croissants; they sell out.
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Alliance Bakery
Order your macaroons, red-velvet cupcakes and other creamy-frosted goodies in the bakery, then take them to the ‘lounge’ next door (or out to the sidewalk tables) and make like a local by hanging out, reading or tap-tap-tapping on your laptop using the free wi-fi.
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Macrina
You might have to wait in line, especially if you want to sit at a table, but as soon as you bite into your breakfast roll or lemon lavender coffeecake, you won’t care. Macrina makes some of the city’s best artisan bread and decadent snacks.
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D'Angelo Pastry & Bread
Come in the morning for a fresh-from-the-oven flaky croissant, poached eggs and big cups of strong coffee at this sidewalk café and bakery off Lower State St. The best pastries go quick, so get here early; the bakery closes at 14:00.
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La Boulange
The best buy amid Union boutiques is here: 10 bucks gets you half a tartine (open-faced sandwich) with soup or salad, a fresh-baked macaroon, and all the cornichons and Nutella you can grab from the condiment bar.
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St Honoré Boulangerie
Insanely popular for its luscious breads and pastries, this modern-rustic bakery also serves tasty panini sandwiches, vegetarian soups and oven-fired pizzas. Snag a sidewalk table on a sunny day.
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Bagelry
The bagels here are real (boiled, then baked), and come with fantastic spreads, especially the hummus and egg salad. Check out the bulletin board for local goings-on.
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European Street Cafe
If you just don't know what you want, this place has a lengthy menu, enormous bakery case and over 150 kinds of beer.
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Pasticceria Natalina
A bright green awning announces the little bakery of Natalie and Nick Zarzour, who achieve the most authentic Italian sweets in the city by importing the hard-to-find ingredients (including pistachios, rosewater and Sicilian sheep’s milk ricotta) from the motherland. The creations change daily, though all are made with unfailing attentiveness. The luckiest visitors pick up cassata, a Sicilian liqueur-soaked cake filled with sweet ricotta cream, and a box of old-fashioned Sicilian lemon cookies – bites of buttery, crumbly goodness.
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Baked & Wired
With one of the nation’s great universities a spilled cappuccino away, you’d think Georgetown would have more hip coffee shops, but alas, there’s a lack. B&W makes up for this lost ground with a studio-chic interior and, more importantly, great coffee and some of the best cupcakes in DC. It’s a supremely cheerful, smile-at-the-world sort of place, just the right kind of sunny disposition this occasionally stuffy neighborhood needs.
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Patisserie Philippe
Pastries lighter than air that won’t leave a dent in your wallet. Come for the impeccable ham-and-cheese croissant or classic quiche Lorraine, but ignore that European glass counter or you’ll skip straight to dessert of tarte tatin loaded with caramelized sweet-tart apples. The secret is top-quality local ingredients, with Meyer lemon delivering tang to tarts and premium butter making that $1 bag of cookies a decadent investment.
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Mimi's Fried Pies
These pies are a cross between Aussie meat pies and Southern-style pot pies, but being handheld there's an empanada influence, and they were dreamt up in long-ago Oklahoma by Mimi's grandmother, who most likely had never seen an empanada, so there's that.
Sweet Mimi fills the flakey dough with cherry, apple, chocolate, coconut cream and pecans, but also gets savory with chicken and broccoli, spinach and mushroom, cheese and pepperoni and more.
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Ba Le Bake Shoppe
A corruption of the word 'Paris,' this Vietnamese bakery-café is one of an islandwide chain established by a recent Vietnamese immigrant. The simple shop is best known for its chewy baguette sandwiches, but you can also scratch that spring-roll itch. For a caffeine jolt, there's an equally chewy cup of coffee served with loads of sugar and milk, either hot or iced. There is another outlet on N King St.
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Mill Bay Coffee & Pastries
What's a French chef doing in Kodiak? Joel Chenet's love of hunting is the reason this city is blessed with the best pastries in Alaska, hands down. Get there early: the case is empty of tortes, éclairs and 8in-high apple pies by midafternoon. For a seafood treat try the Kodiak sea burger, a salmon patty topped with crab, shrimp and cream cheese, and served on a toasted brioche bun.
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Liberty Café
Chicken pot pies are still the culinary calling card of Liberty Café, baked to order with fresh, organic ingredients and served piping hot. The cozy Bernal Heights institution isn’t exactly cheap or always mindful of how long customers wait for brunch to arrive, but fresh-baked treats and light meals in the wine cottage still make it a find. No reservations; expect a wait.
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Coffees 'n' Epicurea
A coffee-tasting room is an unlikely place for this patisserie with flaky pastries, delicate éclairs and gorgeous pies. (The baker defected from the Kohala Coast resorts.) A back patio has greenery and some seating, and its gift shop is surprisingly sophisticated, obviously catering to a crowd beyond the tour-bus norm. It's on the makai side at the 106-mile marker.
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Floriole Cafe
The chef got her start selling lemon tarts, twice-baked croissants and rum-tinged caneles (a pastry with a custard center and caramelized crust) at the Green Market. She now sells her French-influenced baked goods and ciabatta sandwiches – which use Midwest-sourced meats, cheeses and produce – in an airy, loftlike space punctuated by a big wooden farm table.
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Tartine
Riches beyond your wildest dreams: butter-intensive pain au chocolat, cappuccino with dense foam, and croque monsieurs turbo-loaded with ham, two kinds of cheese and béchamel. Lolling in Dolores Park is the only possible post-Tartine activity, and operating heavy machinery ill-advised without a shot of the organic espresso.
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Brioche Bakery
When Gold Rush miners found gold, they treated themselves to ‘Frenchy food’ here on what was once San Francisco’s Barbary Coast – and now you too can start your day striking it rich with flaky cinnamon twists, not-too-sweet pain au chocolat (chocolate croissants), and namesake brioches golden with butter.
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