Recommended

General

• Sod House Bakery (replaced)
  • RIP pecan scones
  • Replaced by Zary
• Zary Bakery_
  • Replaced Sod House
• Cafe Javasti
  • Get: quickbreads, especially chocolate zucchini
  • Pass: any mochi or buttermilk bars
• Bakery Nouveau
  • Also a great place to get birthday cakes
• Cafe Hagen
• Monorail Espresso
  • Roast are on the darker side
  • Get: chubbies (think fat shortbread cookies)
• Olympia Coffee (Downtown Seattle)
  • Pretty nice pastries, since they're affiliated with Moonrise Bakery
• Mr. West
• Zylberschtein's
• Temple Pastries
  • Get: croissants, macarons, seasonal mini cakes
• Coyle's Bakeshop
• Fresh Flours
• Rosellini's
• Preserve & Gather
• Blackbird Bakery (Bainbridge Island)
• R&M Dessert Bar
• Sea Wolf
  • Get: any croissant, esp. chocolate or plain, lye roll
  • Pass: cinnamon roll
• Cloud City Coffee
• Sweet Nothings & More*
• Cake Life Everyday* (croissants)
• Red Arrow Coffee
• La Marzocco Cafe (closed)
• Sugar Bakery & Cafe
• Boot Scootin Bread*
• Milstead
• Aiepathy Patisserie
  • Good but kind of oily croissants, pretty good cinnamon roll
• Bakery Honore
• Union Coffee
  • Trivia: used to be owned by husband of Molly Moon's founder
• Cafe Besalu
  • Croissant-dough pastries are consistently good
• Lighthouse Roasters
• Volunteer Park Cafe
• Bake Shop
  • Get: ham & cheese potato bun, scallion scone, miso buckwheat chocolate cookie
  • Need to try: chocolate babka
• Papa Chango
  • cafe bombon; cortados with a hint of sweetness
• Shawn's Cafe and Bakery
• La Fête Pâtisserie
• Ben's Bread
• Layers
• T55 Patisserie
• Moderne Bakery*
  • Had a pretty tasty kouign amman and shortbread box for SRW Fall 2024

Asian/ Asian inspired

• Kinako & Goma* (Southeast Asian inspired)
• Akio's Bakery*
  • Good cream puffs, though cream could be a bit stronger in flavor
  • Good melonpan, but more bread-y than the super soft versions usually sold in Asian bakeries
• SUSU Dessert Bar
  • Need to get in line 1~1.5 hours before opening to ensure widest choice of items. The line also moves extremely slowly as there's only one person both taking and packing orders. Food is pretty good, though
• Hood Famous Bakeshop (Filipino)
• Matcha Cafe Maiko (matcha desserts)
  • Get: matcha soft serve
• Hiroki (Japanese-inspired)
• Coco Pandan*
  • kaya; pandan-infused baked goods (very light on pandan flavor, but good quality)
• Hello Em (Vietnamese inspired)
• Kinako and Goma (East/ SE Asia flavors)
• FogRose Atelier
  • Specializes in desserts
  • Had a really good to-go afternoon tea
• Cake House
  • Get: taro bun, coconut tart, red bean puff pastry
  • A little on the sweet side, but very good
• Aroom Coffee (Vietnamese)
  • Avocado coffee, sesame coffee
• Mitten Sweets & Coffee
  • Matcha chocolate cake and puff pastry was really good
• Voi Ca Phe (Vietnamese)

Afternoon Teas

• Coyle's Bakeshop (currently suspended)

Specialized

• Deep Sea Sugar & Salt (cakes)
  • Best cakes in the area
• Simply Desserts (cakes)
• Tres Lecheria (tres leches cakes)
• Flour Box (donuts)
• Half & Half (donuts)
• Hello Robin (cookies)
  • Get: classic and vegan chocolate chip
• Hot Cakes Molten Chocolate Cakery
• Pinckney Cookie Cafe*
• Pie Bird Bakeshop*
• Macadons*
  • Best macarons in the area
• Coping Cookies*
• Salt & Other Vices* (cookies)
• Mighty-O Donuts
• Chocolati Cafe
  • hot chocolates, mochas; truffles are kind of disappointing
• Selva Central Goods (Central American inspired)
• Metropolitan Market
  • high end supermarket that bakes "The Cookie" (and overall decent baked goods)
• Tall Grass Bakery
• Grateful Bread
• Pie Fremont (closed)
  • Adorable single serve sweet and savory pies. Had a food truck at Westlake
• Sweet Iron (liege waffles) (closed)
• Oso Negro Baking Co (Argentinian alfajores)
• Joe Chocolate (caffeinated chocolate)
• Hédonisme
• Old Salt (bagel sandwiches)
• Spinnaker Chocolate
  • excellent limited run hazelnut chocolate spread
• Dutch Dame Stroopwafels*
• Porto-Pies*
• Doce Donuts

Decent

• Caked Goods*
• Boon Boona Coffee
• Lady Grey* (cakes)
• Caffe Ladro
• Santo Coffee
• Graysea's Pies*
• Kaffeeklatsch
• Backyard Bakery Maple Leaf
• Cakes + Trees
• Grand Central Bakery
  • Get: coffeecake, cuties (seasonal mini chocolate pies), sourdough
  • Pass: most of their other things
• Pligrim Coffeehouse
• Retreat
• Paper Cake Shop
  • underwhelmed by first visit, but should retry

Not recommended

• General Porpoise (donuts)
• La Dulce*
  • Silvanas and breads had mild detergent taste
  • Cheesecakes were okay, but kind of imploded and the volume made up for with whipped cream??
• Rey Amargo (chocolate)
• Lola's Traveling Tea Party
• Saint Bread
  • Cardamom is great, but not THAT much cardamom
• Cafe Arta
  • our neighborhood bookstore cafe