Crawl your way through the best bakeries of Portland and beyond!

Bakery Bingo

Crawl your way through the best bakeries of Portland and beyond!

Large Taste, little t (american baker)

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2600 SE Division St & 26th Ave • littletbaker.com • 503.238.3458

Hours: Mon-Sat 7am-5pm; Sun 8am-2pm 

For those who aren’t from Portland or don’t really know anything about Portland, this city is somewhat obsessed with food carts.  Now I used to be terrified of going to food carts.  I was convinced (based off no facts) that food carts were basically going to be like carnival food – not good for you, mediocre taste and likely to give you E. coli.  The first food cart that I wasn’t afraid to check out was Addy’s Sandwich Bar.  Continue Reading...

Go for the Pie, Stay for the Brownie: Random Order Coffeehouse & Bakery

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1800 NE Alberta & 18th • randomordercoffee.com• 971.340.6995

Hours: Mon 6:30am-8pm; Tues-Sun 6:30am-11pm

Especially after Alder Pastry sadly closed so abruptly, I have felt like I have had a void in my heart, yearning for a welcoming place to get great dessert at any hour.  Hearing about Random Order Coffee House was like hearing about a magical land – a place that is open till 11pm, serves delicious coffee and fun cocktails, has a cozy atmosphere AND offers incredible homemade pies. (Random Order’s awesome apple pie was voted as one of America’s Best Pies by Travel + Leisure magazine – that’s pretty legit in my opinion!)  Could this place really exist?  Continue Reading...

Baked Brooksters At Last!

Filed in: Recipes, Travel

My lovely little Bakery Bingo blog started just eight months ago with a trip to NYC.  I was determined to visit Baked, a café/bakery owned by the writers of my all-time favorite cookbook, Baked: New Frontiers in Baking.  It was a long trek to Brooklyn, given that we didn’t have a car and taxis did not seem to want to pick us up apparently.  (Read more about our NYC Bakery Crawl here).  But after about an hour journey we made it!  And it was well worth the trip, especially for their incredibly delicious Brooksters – a perfect combo of brownie and chocolate chip cookie. (Hence people also calling this creation the “Brookie.”) Continue Reading...