When you get a craving for something tasty and filling, a great pastry can offer the perfect solution. St. Louis, Missouri, boasts some awesome bakeries that specialize in tasty sweet and savory treats. Here are some of the city’s best places for satisfying your carb cravings.
Nathaniel Reid Bakery
Located on Manchester Road, the award-winning Nathaniel Reid Bakery is a welcoming neighborhood bakery offering world-class pastries. Chef and owner Nathaniel specializes in both traditional and contemporary baked goods using techniques that were perfected in Europe. The friendly servers will guide you through the menu of stunning pastries and confections.
The menu changes seasonally, but you’ll find baked goods such as croissants, cookies, brownies, and 12 flavors of macarons. The exotically filled pastries are given glamorous names like Ruby, Vernal, Guyana, Veronique, and Ambrosia. If you prefer something savory, they offer sandwiches, salads, and quiches.
Pint Size Bakery & Coffee
Pint Size Bakery & Coffee on Watson Road is a cute little place specializing in small-batch, baked from scratch goodies. They bake the old-fashioned way, using milk, cream, and eggs from small family farms, along with real butter, cane sugar, and unbleached flour. If they run out of an item, they’ll bake some more, so you know it’s the freshest you can get.
The morning eats include sweet and savory muffins and buttermilk scones, breakfast cookies, farm egg quiche, and Lil Loafies. Alternatively, you can choose all-day snacks like oatmeal creme pies, a choice of cookies, cupcakes in a variety of flavors, and tiny tarts and pies. Or you can try a Brookie, whimsically described as “a brownie and a chocolate chip cookie that fell in love!”
Boogyz Donuts
When only an amazing donut will satisfy you, head over to Boogyz Donuts on Olive Boulevard. On the menu, you’ll find donuts such as Boston creme, cinnamon twist, raspberry jelly-filled, cinnamon roll, donut holes, cake donuts, a huge 1-pound apple fritter donut, and more. They also offer a full range of vegan donuts.
Federhofer’s Bakery
Established in 1966, Federhofer’s Bakery on Gravois Road is a traditional bakery with a reputation for the freshest and highest quality baked goods. They’ve been using the same recipes over the decades to ensure the consistently great taste of their breads, pastries, stollens, pies, and cakes.
The range of specialty large cupcakes include pumpkin, pineapple, the Raspberry Dream, Yellow Mellow, coconut creme, and Bailey’s Irish Creme. You can also get Chicago cheese squares, brownies, decorated cookies, baklava, German chocolate squares, and mini Danish.
La Bonne Bouchee
La Bonne Bouchee on Olive Boulevard is an authentic French patisserie that brings the charm and feel of a Parisian cafe to St. Louis. The beautiful cakes and pastries are handcrafted every day using the finest ingredients.
The menu offers savory and sweet filled croissants and specialties such as apple feuillete, banana nut muffins, apple or cherry turnovers, cinnamon cream cheese Danish, Brioche, cinnamon rolls and twists, and sugar or cinnamon palmier.
These are just a few of the superb bakeries around St. Louis. They all offer something a little different, but they will all satisfy your appetite.
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