Honolulu's bakeries carry the city's immigrant layers, from Portuguese sweets to Japanese-influenced treats and island chocolate. Leonard's Bakery on Kapahulu Avenue is the touchstone for malasadas, while Liliha Bakery on North Kuakini Street is known across town for its long counter. Newer rooms like Breadshop on Waialae Avenue and Cake Works on South King Street round out a scene that also stretches to shave ice at Waiola Shave Ice and bean-to-bar work at Lonohana Estate Chocolate.
12 bakery places in Honolulu we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in Honolulu · Bakery across every city.
Order Original sugar malasada
Leonard's Bakery in Kapahulu Honolulu has fried Portuguese malasadas since Leonard Rego opened the family shop in 1952, the canonical version.
Order Chocolate coco puff with macadamia chantilly
Liliha Bakery on North Kuakini in Honolulu is the original 1950 Liliha shop famous for chocolate coco puffs with macadamia nut chantilly, grilled butter.
Order Chocolate coco puff
Liliha Bakery Nimitz in Honolulu is the larger, sit-down branch of the local institution with full plate lunches, dim sum trolleys and the canonical coco.
Order Country sourdough
Breadshop in Kaimuki Honolulu is the craft bakery on Waialae that bakes small batches of naturally leavened breads daily, donating unsold loaves to a local.
Order Lilikoi cream tart
Cake Works in Honolulu is pastry chef Abigail Langlas's South King Street bakery for custom cakes, French macarons and tropical-fruit tarts in lilikoi.
Order Chocolate haupia cream pie
Ted's Bakery at Sunset Beach on Oahu's North Shore, an hour from Honolulu, is the original home of the chocolate haupia cream pie and a plate lunch counter.
Order Blueberry cream cheese scone
Diamond Head Market and Grill in Honolulu is the Monsarrat counter where Kelvin Ro fries plate lunches and the bakery side sells the city's most-asked-about.
Order Rainbow shave ice
Matsumoto Shave Ice in Haleiwa on Oahu's North Shore, an hour from Honolulu, has scraped fine-grain shave ice since the Matsumoto family opened.
Order Strawberry condensed milk shave ice
Waiola Shave Ice in Kapahulu Honolulu has scraped the finest shave ice in the city since 1940, now on Mokihana Street after the original Kapahulu Avenue.
Order Croissant
Honu Bakery on North School Street in Honolulu is the laminated-pastry bakery and cafe at Kam Shopping Center with croissants, kouign-amann and rotating.
Try Garlic shrimp plate or chocolate haupia pie slice
Ted's Bakery on the North Shore an hour from Honolulu sells garlic shrimp plates and a slice of chocolate haupia pie for $14 total, the most essential cheap.
