Category Archives: Bakeries

Portland Guide to Sweet Shops, Pastries, and Chocolate. Part 2

Part 2. N through Z. Part 1 is here. New Cascadia Traditional This is a completely gluten-free bakery offering breads, pastries and cookies. New Cascadia sells at the Portland Farmers Markets, but they also have a new storefront cafe near SE Hawthorne with coffee, tea and other beverages. Cookies include peanut butter chocolate, ginger lemon, and a vegan chocolate chip … Continue reading →


Portland Guide to Sweet Shops, Pastries, and Chocolate. Part 1

Part one A through M. Part two is here Portland is well-known for great beers, coffee, and quality European style artisan breads, yet we also boast a very large choice of sweet shops, patisseries, chocolate purveyors and chocolatiers. For visitors or locals, here is our guide. Although this list doesn’t include everyone in the Yellow Pages, it does cover many … Continue reading →


Review: A Private Letter to Two Tarts

You two little tarts!

I don’t want to love you, you wicked temptress! You are my Delilah, weakening me with your gooey chocolate chip cookies sprinkled with sea salt; cookies that called me back to the register at the coffee house, even after I’d sat down with my drink. My femme fatale, how well your alluring treats weaken my resolve to resist, they make love to my cappuccino – buttery, salty, crunchy – I must have one Continue reading →


Cacao Chocolate Shop

By Cuisine Bonne Femme and Joanna Miller There are shops that sell chocolate and then there are Chocolate Shops. The latter, if they are first-rate, can inspire even the most hardened and cynical among us. Take this recent email for example: To: Cuisine Bonne Femme From: Food Dude Marked: URGENT!!!! Drop everything! Are you into chocolate? I just went to … Continue reading →