San Francisco | Four Bakeries & Cafés I Visited Last Week 🥐☕

Parachute Bakery The Ferry Building is a pretty inconvenient location for me, but I finally got a chance to visit 😅. It was a rainy Sunday afternoon, and they still had plenty of items left — I was pleasantly impressed! Of the three things I tried, my favorite was the $8 black sesame yuzu cookie 🍪. It was truly unique, with complex layers of flavor: earthy sesame, bittersweet yuzu, and a hint of sea salt — so good! The pecan was definitely the best part of the financier 🧈. The cake itself was nice, but I missed that crispy outer crust I usually love in traditional financiers. Honestly, cube croissants always let me down… but I keep ordering them anyway 😂. This twice-baked caramel hazelnut cube croissant though? Finally a winner 🏆 — packed with filling, yet still light and flaky! I didn’t try their drinks, but I noticed most people grabbing coffee from Blue Bottle next door instead ☕. Magic Donuts & Coffee I only come here a few times a year, but this time they had new flavors! 🍩 The Hannukah one seemed kinda plain, and the Christmas one looked like a calorie bomb 🎄… so I went with the old fashioned cocktail donut — turns out it was too sweet for my taste 🥲. My favorite ended up being the simple yet perfect dark chocolate old fashioned ❤️. Cam Hung, Sunnyvale A takeout-only Vietnamese sandwich shop — cash only 💵 — but seriously great prices for banh mi and coffee in Sunnyvale! If you want something even better (though pricier), you’d have to head to San Jose 🚗. Neighbor Bakehouse This might be my last visit this year, so I made sure to grab their two signature items: the “everything” croissant and the pistachio blackberry twice-baked croissant 🥐. Always a treat! #SanFrancisco #Coffee #BakeryFood #PastryLover #SFBrunch