Textbook Bakery

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A baker and a patissier have teamed up here to produce delicious bread, pies and pastries, and some absolutely amazingly vivid dessert creations: resist if you can. Watch them at work in the open kitchen, inspect the wares then enjoy them in this pleasantly light space or outside. There's also inventive breakfast and brunch fare and very decent coffee.


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