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• Cake Monkey Bakery
• Have a unique phobia? Fear not! You’re not alone
• Feds say he masterminded an epic California water heist. Some farmers say he’s their Robin Hood
• Efforts underway to save iconic Santa Monica diner
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“Even if you eat it three days later, the moisture content is so high that every bite tastes like a spongy, citrusy, olive oil slice of heaven.” Excerpt from HarpeersBazaar. Joan’s on Third is a busy gourmet marketplace that for years has been pleasing West Hollywood lunchers with its Chinese chicken salad, housemade pickles and omelets. But what makes a lot of the food at Joan’s on Third stand out is the in-house bakery. The very popular ham and cheese Ficelle sandwich, for example, is served on a house made baguette.

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There are classics like red velvet cake and carrot cake, but also glorious banana custard cups and birthday cake-style slices. Clark Street is no longer the cute, little subway-tiled stall in the Grand Central Market where we’d celebrate getting out of jury duty with ricotta toast. This well-oiled baking machine is now a local mini-chain with four locations selling incredible pastries like twisty Swedish cinnamons buns, buttery cheddar-chive scones, and kouign-amann that taste like a caramelized croissant. If you’re looking for something a little heartier, our favorite item is their “Scandinavian Breakfast,” a massive platter with a sourdough roll, Comté cheese, ham, butter, jam, and a hardboiled egg. It's the kind of simple, filling meal that makes you feel like you’re picnicking in the fields from The Sound of Music.

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Meet 'Pan Solo': California bakery's bread replica of 'Star Wars' hero - USA TODAY

Meet 'Pan Solo': California bakery's bread replica of 'Star Wars' hero.

Posted: Sat, 15 Oct 2022 07:00:00 GMT [source]

You can’t go wrong with any of them, but the creme brulee bombolini and sticky caramel pecan brioche are especially good. They make everything fresh and it is apparent in the presentation and taste. I went with the Breakfast Sandwich with bacon and it was flaky buttery delicious. This is a nice place to relax with friends, a drink, and some food on a nice day. Now one of LA’s few employee-owned collective bakeries, this Atwater Village institution is an ideal meld between the best of classic European and American baking sensibilities. The croissants are as good as they get, but the seasonal, daily offerings aren’t worth missing either.

Feds say he masterminded an epic California water heist. Some farmers say he’s their Robin Hood

Meanwhile, it’s impossible to go past the pastry case and not consider at least five things. The ham and gruyere croissants are the best we’ve had outside of France, and even those who believe vegetables have no business in cakes will approve of the carrot cake. Gemmae’s original location opened in 1979 just outside of Manila, but the family behind it moved the business to Long Beach over a decade later. These days, the Filipino bakery is run by a mother-daughter duo who can usually be found working the counter. If you’ve never had a crush on a baked good, you will after a few bites of Gemmae’s specialties, like sugar-coated Spanish bread oozing buttery cheese filling or a soft ensaymada stuffed with pandan and ube.

Efforts underway to save iconic Santa Monica diner

Stop in for breakfast to sample an assortment of breads like farro and rye, a fruit and nut loaf and whole wheat potato bread. Or opt for the homemade bagels, croissants or breakfast pizza with house sausage and farm egg. This pandemic bakery first opened at celebrity chef Curtis Stone’s Beverly Hills restaurant Maude in lieu of the Michelin-star restaurant’s tasting menu. Stone is also opening Pie Room at the buzzy Topanga Social at Westfield Topanga in Canoga Park. Do you ever say “cow” when you pass your first cow on a road trip? After one visit to Bhan Kanom Thai, you’ll probably say “Bhan Kanom” every time you pass the East Hollywood strip mall that houses this Thai bakery and mini-mart.

The “humble,” “family-oriented” grandpa from California recently named the winner of the state’s second-largest jackpot paid off his home and is reportedly in the market for a new million-dollar pad. Sign up with your email address to be the first to know about new products, VIP offers, blog features & more. The full list of the best bakery in every state according to Yelp can be found here. Cream Pan has since expanded to three locations in Southern California — Tustin and Fountain Valley in Orange County and Lomita in Los Angeles County.

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Take a Look at This Giant-Ass Han Solo Statue Made of Bread.

Posted: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 07:00:00 GMT [source]

We just want to make delicious food from the purest raw ingredients we can find. We want to have transparency in all of our recipes and ingredients, so you know what you're putting in your body. It forced me to learn how to bake without any artificial stabilizers or food coloring ...

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Chocolate, vanilla cream-filled cakes coated with bittersweet chocolate, and a variety of fancy cakes and pies are available for order or purchase at various retail locations in the city. If you make the trip to Zoe Nathan and Josh Loeb’s Santa Monica Bakery Huckleberry, there might be a line in which you’ll have to wait. For more of Zoe Nathan Loeb’s creations, head to Milo and Olive for wood-fired pizzas and rustic pastries. The baked goods are a slight departure from those available at Huckleberry.

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The eponymous cream pan is still among the shop’s classic best-sellers. Cream pans are soft, sweet buns with a light custard filling inside. This local gem is known for its famous strawberry croissants while also serving up a large variety of French and Japanese-inspired baked goods including scones, brioches, cakes, tarts, doughnuts and more. Since 2008, Nathan Dakdouk has been making the delicious breads served at Suzanne Goin and Caroline Styne’s restaurants Lucques, A.O.C. and Tavern. For several years, the talented Venezuelan baked artisan loaves out of a small bakery on the west side. Now with The Larder Baking Company, Dakdouk’s breads are available for wholesale all over the city and retail at The Larder at Burton Way, Maple Drive, Tavern and LAX.

This strip mall spot is also rightly famous for its German chocolate cake and personal pans of peach cobbler. Don’t be intimidated if the line is out the door when you arrive—they’re extremely efficient here. Sweet Red Peach has been managing crowds of loyal customers (and occasionally Stevie Wonder) for twenty-plus years.

Plan to get there before 3pm, when they start selling out of their more popular pastries and cakes. Walking into a bakery is one of the better sensations in the human experience. The air smells like a hug and it’s acceptable to stare into the display case like a cat watching goldfish swim around in a tank. Fortunately, LA is rich with hot carb action, from exemplary baguettes to key lime pies topped with whipped cream. The next time you want to ride that flour and yeast high, you might as well go for the best of the best.

It’s surprising how many excellent bakeries have opened in the past few years considering the current fear of gluten and demonization of carbohydrates in a city that has a reputation of valuing appearances above all else. It’s also special to her and her mother; they spent many hours baking together when she was young, dreaming of owning her own bakery one day. “We’ve mended him three times, and all three times have been because people can’t keep their hands off him,” Catherine Pervan said. For their first entry, they paid homage to “Game of Thrones,” calling it “Game of Scones” by making a White Walker out of dead dough and a bread throne of baguettes. The following year was a nod to the television series “The Mandalorian,” with a “Pain-dough-lorian” out of bread, “Baby Dough-Da” floating in a mixing bowl and clothed in bread, and “Pandroid” with kitchen tools. Last year, they looked to the series “Loki” and made “Dough-ki,” a twist on the Alligator Loki character played by Tom Hiddleston, out of bread.

He admits his setup needs work, and his girlfriend is helping him now that they have lived together for almost a year. The shelter appears above the flood wash like a seaside cottage plucked from a coastal town. And it just became harder and harder to pay for a room to live in,” Augusto said in Spanish while standing in the concrete channel, which carries runoff through the Highland Park neighborhood. To top off my amazing experience, when I tagged them on my Instagram, they couldn’t have been nicer and more engaging. Given their hype and immense popularity among celebrities, this was a breath of fresh air. After I had the small cake, I was thinking about when I should go back to buy the medium-sized one.

At one point, she was smacking Ford’s doughy face, trying to suppress the volume, only to realize it needed to be raised slightly. Hannalee worked on both the pastry and bread teams at Bouchon Bakery in Yountville, CA. She was also part of the team that made the bread for Thomas Keller's flagship restaurant, The French Laundry. Hannalee has been dreaming of being a baker since she was 10 years old. She earned a basketball scholarship to Quinnipiac University so she could study Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management.

The bakery space on Whittier Blvd. has been heavily renovated over the last few years, but not to worry, the baked goods are better than ever. That includes pan dulce, fresh bolillo, and a flan worth driving across town to get. Long Beach's Gusto Bread is a new-wave panadería specializing in pan and pan dulce made with natural yeasts and heirloom grains.