Bakery restaurants in San Francisco
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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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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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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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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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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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Hot Cookie
If this place seems familiar, that says something about your taste in cookies and entertainment. After a couple of adult film scenes were shot here, Hot Cookie became the place to be seen and photographed for porn stars – hence the wall of signed Hot Cookie underwear, and customers eating chocolate chip cookies with a certain gusto.
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Kara’s Cupcakes
Stand back and watch Proustian nostalgia wash over fully grown adults as they bite into the carrot cake with cream-cheese frosting, or babble excitedly about magician birthday parties over the chocolate-marshmallow. While the flavors seem simple, they are meticulously calculated for maximum glee.
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Baonecci
Recharge for the Coit Tower climb with panini turbo-loaded with bold Southern Italian flavors on house-baked ciabatta or focaccia. Tastebuds sit up and pay attention to the Studente, a ham and cheese sandwich slathered with hot Calabrese red-pepper paste and green olive spread for $6.50.
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Noe Valley Bakery
Raspberry croissants beckon at breakfast; seasonal sandwiches on housebaked crusty bread under $6 are just right for boutique-blown budgets come lunchtime; and sympathetic chocolate éclair purchases are in order for friends and family who could use some Noe Valley cheer.
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Mission Pie
Like mom used to make, only better: from savory quiche to all-American apple pie.
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