December 16Dec 16 As an Italian who is perfectly content eating pastries for breakfast and not giant egg and bacon type meals, let's talk good pastry shops. Sweetish Hill - damn those prices suck but I really like the new S. 1st Street location Sour Duck - so good they supply pastries all over town Central Market - cheap and solid I'm going to start with those three but I'm also here to bemoan the loss of Patika. Edited December 16Dec 16 by texasdago
December 16Dec 16 We've rediscovered Uppercrust lately. Their almond croissants are killer. And you can pre-order for the Holidays.
December 16Dec 16 This topic comes up on the Austin food subreddit on the regular and I'll touch on your suggestions and make a few of my own. Plus I just got back from Paris and like a true Parisian, consider myself an expert and everyone else is wrong. Sweetish Hill--I'm lame and have only been once since the remodel and don't recall it being exceptional in any way besides the how hot the lady customers were Sour Duck--love them, although like @HenryJames I'm constantly confused how you can call yourself a bakery but run out of pastries by 10 am. Kouign Amann is the standout. Central Market--very inconsistent. I've had to return pastries because there was butter chunks (ineffectively creamed) and a lot of times they look better than they taste, particularly out of the cake case. Not a pastry but I do appreciate they offer a $2 baguette when Whole Foods is only stocking $5 versions from easy tiger. Upper Crust--love the morning buns but their parking lot has more helpless drivers than the Arboretum Trader Joes and being closed on Sundays is no bueno. Quacks--always solid, but never better than that. Really their cakes are better than their pastries. Most of their staff is, errrrr....baked. Russells--they don't get enough love, I like them better than Quacks Epicerie--refuse to go out of pique at the subredditors that claim they have better pastries than in New Orleans. Julie Myrtille--overrated and expensive, I don't know how you can charge $6 for a chocolate croissant that's 2 euros in Paris. I guess great for them if they can get it, but it feels like a Disneyland version of a patisserie designed to remove money from indiscriminate Gen Z. Heaven's Bistro--for my money the most under-sung hole in the wall bakery in Austin, and the best almond croissant.
December 16Dec 16 3 hours ago, LCHorn said: Julie Myrtille--overrated and expensive, I don't know how you can charge $6 for a chocolate croissant that's 2 euros in Paris. I guess great for them if they can get it, but it feels like a Disneyland version of a patisserie designed to remove money from indiscriminate Gen Z. It's an Instagram bakery. You're supposed to take pictures of the inside and then don't eat what you purchase.
December 16Dec 16 3 hours ago, LCHorn said: Really their cakes are better than their pastries. Their pies are the best.
December 18Dec 18 Picked up a couple of buches from Violette this morning. Chocolate and coconut lime.
December 18Dec 18 I haven’t been there in years, but Upper Crust used to make my favorite chicken salad sandwich in town.
Sunday at 04:58 PM3 days On 12/18/2025 at 10:21 AM, HenryJames said: Picked up a couple of buches from Violette this morning. Chocolate and coconut lime. Dammit, now I have to order one, too.
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