Friday Feed

The Starbucks Reserve Roastery and Pancake Chef Are Closing, Pidgin Is Open

Plus the Pastry Project is opening a bakery and the Salvadorean Bakery is opening a café.

09/26/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Colonel Custard

Eat This: The Portuguese Egg Tarts at So Tasty

The tiny tins at a Chinese fried chicken shop in Bellevue cradle a powerful pastry.

08/30/2024 By Naomi Tomky

Confection Cross-Training

When Chefs Make Cake (and Rice Krispies Treats)

Two of the year’s coolest new bakeries, Paper Cake Shop and Little Jaye, sprang to life when savory chefs turned their attention to butter and sugar.

08/30/2023 By Allecia Vermillion

Field Notes

The Pastry Case's Next Chapter

A pair of Canlis alums bring new life, a cookie for the ages, and a classic bacon-egg-cheese to Volunteer Park Cafe and Pantry

11/22/2021 By Allecia Vermillion

Pop Tort

A Seattle Pop-Tart Expert Weighs in on the $5 Million Lawsuit Against Kellogg

Hana Yohannes of Shikorina Pastries ponders a sticky situation.

11/03/2021 By Sophie Grossman

It's Dough Time

17 Superb International Bakeries Around Seattle

From crispy kringles to chocolate babka, these bakeshops bring global flavors to every corner of the city.

01/21/2019 By Rosin Saez

Review

The Pastries Are On Point at Cubes Baking Company

It may seem gimmicky—everything here is square?—but a bite from one of these angular treats is a visual and flavorful delight.

12/19/2017 By Rosin Saez

Chophouse Watch

Slate Coffee and Authentic Macarons Coming to Chophouse Row

Slate Coffee Roaster's Chelsey Walker-Watson explains why her Capitol Hill bakeshop collaboration will be the new best part of your day.

10/30/2014 By Darren Davis

Feast and Desist

The Pastry That Must Not Be Named

Seattle bakers brave enough to riff on this labor-intensive treat have come up with their own monikers.

04/01/2014 By Allecia Vermillion

Sweets

Flour to the People

Meet Seattle's best new confectioners.

04/01/2014 By Allecia Vermillion

Flour to the People

Test Your Pastry IQ

Do you know the difference between a macaroon and a macaron? Or between a cannoli and a cannelé?

03/21/2014 By Allecia Vermillion

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Seattle Pastry Chefs Go Rogue

The early bird gets the cinnamon roll at Crumble and Flake.

09/19/2012 By Kathryn Robinson

On the Menu

Slideshow: Ba Bar Pastry Chef Karen Krol Makes Pate Chaud

The restaurant has a new(ish) pastry chef, and she wraps meat in delicate pastry.

01/10/2012 By Allecia Vermillion

Seattle Eats

Trending: Bread and Pastries

Carb-free? Not around these parts. Local bakeries say Seattleites are buying up baguettes like crazy.

04/12/2011 By Tiffany Ran

New Restaurants

Belle Pastry Opens Downtown

(How amped is Seattle Met that Bellevue’s best bakery has spun off to our neighborhood?)

07/26/2010 By Kathryn Robinson

Food News Roundup

Mike McConell’s Expanding Empire, New Dinner Series at Emmer and Rye, Theo Chocolate: Now Even More Fair

Here’s your heaping plate of Seattle food news for the week of July 19.

07/16/2010 By Jessica Voelker

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The Herbfarm Announces New Pastry Chef

Woodinville welcomes a notable name in desserts.

07/06/2010 By Jessica Voelker

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Pastry Pop Quiz

02/16/2009