Midnight Bear Breads — Restaurant in Kauai

We were driving through Hanapepe, and we saw this bakery. I didn't recall seeing it last year when we were here, but it's possible we were distracted by something else and missed it. We decided to turn around and investigate. The line was to the door, which is always an indication of something worthy when sweets are involved. We joined the queue and looked at the treats in the glass cases. I had the croissant with egg and cheese, and a dragon fruit Danish. My partner had a macadamia nut Cinnamon roll. We both had Lattes. And I also got a country style loaf of sourdough to take for later. We split the croissant, which was amazing. And both of our pastries were incredible. So were the lattes. The atmosphere of this bakery is warm and inviting. It was a little toasty inside, but certainly not uncomfortable so we opted for an indoor table. It was clear that this Bakery stays busy judging by the size of the stack of empty flour bags visible behind the counter in the kitchen and the steel bakers trays of pastries they kept restalking the cases with. Service was friendly and efficient. We will definitely be visiting this place again soon. Highly recommended and a testiment to the lovely town where it resides. We did not take photos of our food, but I've included one of the glorious loaf of bread we procured.

Note: Later, up at the lodge in Waimea State Park, we ordered a couple of cocktails and struck up a conversation with the bartender. She asked us what else we had done today, and we mentioned the bakery. "Oh," she said. "Best bakery around. It's where we get all of our breads."

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WOW! That was tasty! I was looking for a place that would give more choices than a salad to our family vegetarian and this place was AWESOME! I had the hot Caprese sandwich (fresh mozzarella, tomato, macadamia nut pesto, house made citron balsamic, reduction, sea salt, and cracked pepper on fresh baked country sourdough). It was almost the same as the pesto grilled cheese (which almost everyone else had), but with a little extra.

I also bought a macadamia nut cinnamon roll and ... that was gone before we left the restaurant. We also bought some Rosemary Sea Salt Baguettes, which were great at home with butter ... mmm ...

Parking was on street parking, but we found a spot fairly close. Inside, you order at the counter (short line), and find a table.

The restaurant was in historic Hanapepe, so I think that if we'd wanted to wander and window shop, it would have been a great place to do so ... but we wanted to get to the Salvation Army thrift store in Hanapepe before it closed for the day.

Also, there were Pokestops.

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If you're into European style bread, this is the place to go. We visited the bakery during the Hanapepe Art Night on Friday. Surprisingly, the place was not too crowded, but still busy. We were looking for some real good bread and were not disappointed. The selection is quite huge, several different types of bread are available, they also offer gluten free products. We chose one of the multi grain breads and tasted it the next morning for breakfast. Wow. This bread tasted so much like home... we're from Germany and used to a different kind of bread than the usual stuff you get in the US. But the Midnight Bear Breads' bread was awesome. The taste was magnificent, the consistency perfect. We will be back for more bread, that's for sure. The store was neat and clean, the staff had an excellent knowledge of their products, what the breads contain, how they are made and how to store them to keep them fresh as long as possible etc. We didn't try the other products (pizza, pastries, spreads, ...) yet but have planned to...