Firebrand Bread — Restaurant in Alameda

Quick Summary: Large variety of quality breads, pastries, and drinks, tasty food menu with seasonal and holiday specials, served in a relaxed, modern space with plenty of indoor and outdoor seating. Parking is easy. My experience here has been consistently positive, with friendly staff and a clean space.

The baked goods: So many options! Pre-sliced loaves of bread, baguettes, savory pastries, sweet pastries, muffins, cookies, pretzels, gorgeous pullman croissant loaves, they have it all. My top favorites are the savory kouign amann, the classic croissant, the ham and cheese croissant, and the blackberry cream cheese danish. They can heat your pastries up upon request as well.

The food: The crispy pork breakfast sandwich with jam on a biscuit is a real treat. It's stuffed with pork and the biscuits are so fluffy and flavorful with crispy edges. If you love the biscuits, you can get it in the form of biscuits and sausage gravy which is equally as satisfying. The wagyu roast beef sandwich is another solid choice with recently improved fries that are crispy on the outside and fluffy on in the inside. The mushroom toast is loaded, and the chicken tortilla soup with house-fried tortilla chips packs a flavorful punch.

The drinks: All the tea and coffee drinks my partner and I have tried have been good. The ube latte is a favorite, and the seasonal drinks are always fun to try. I don't drink coffee, so I've tried the maple, buko pandan, and hazelnut drinks as steamers. The flavors are...

New restaurant alert ! After finding out about this cafe on Alameda Peeps my family went to check out Saturday morning. Big mistake...as others thought the same thing!

Really happy for this new food addition on the base and with great hours and look forward to them figuring out how to manage crowds. In the mean time have lots and lots of patience! It was our fault as we decided to come knowing it was new and with a toddler and newborn no less so our party got antsy for an hour wait for food.

Everything we had was very tasty though. Lots of pastries even loaves of bread if you want it.

What we ordered: iced matcha latte (I needed to add some sugar) matcha croissant that had matcha filling inside. So good. Chocolate chip and oatmeal cookies (crispy edges with soft middle - perfection) avocado toast Pork with blackberry jam breakfast sandwich with egg . Yummm. Potatoes that it came with were very crispy and tasty. Good portions as I packed half home

Other things to note: pretty awesome that they serve lunch and dinner right across from Bladium so that crowd is coming in too tables inside and outside. Outside picnic tables are dog friendly parking available in the lot right out front no changing table in bathroom (would suggest putting one in!)

I know there's a spot in Oakland too -...

Absolutely amazing bakery and food! They use a sourdough base for crust of the breakfact pizza. It's a great deal as it's a huge pizza for 16$! The croissant bread french toast is only available on the weekends, and its absolutely amazing! Hands down delicious and filling. Not overly sweet too. I ordered the avocado, bacon with eggwhite sandwich between biscuit and omg that biscuit was just to die for. Some of the most buttery and yet pillow soft biscuit with a crust that I've ever had. Their matcha drinks and coffee are also delicious and i really can't complain. For the rest of the baked goods, there hasn't been anything i dont like. They do a fantastic job with their croissants and puff pastries. Everything between the danish, matcha and chocolate croissant to kouign amaan, absolutely amazing. Id say their most unique puff pastry item is the matcha cream filled croissant. Absolutely amazing, creamy and with actual match taste. They tend to sell out quickly too. Their other unique item i recommend is their pretzel sticky bun. It's dense but sooo delicious with the caramelization of sugars and texture of german pretzel. They have plenty of outdoor tables and a few indoors. Great for families, meet up,...