Republique Bakery ★ 4.8
Margarita Manzke's pastry counter inside Republique, Los Angeles bakes the city's reference kouign-amann, plus laminated croissants from a 1928 commissary.
Worth the queue: Kouign-amann
Bakery counters in Los Angeles worth queuing for: levain breads, laminated pastry, regional bakes and the morning ritual.
Where to queue for bread and pastry
Bub and Grandma's ★ 4.7
Andrew Bernstein's Bub and Grandma's in Glassell Park, Los Angeles bakes the bread for half the city's chef restaurants and runs a Wednesday-Sunday counter.
Worth the queue: Old-country milk bread
Tartine Bakery ★ 4.3
Chad Robertson's Tartine on Sycamore Avenue in Hollywood, Los Angeles is the LA outpost of the San Francisco country-bread reference. Bake fresh out at 11:00.
Worth the queue: Country loaf
Friends and Family ★ 4.7
Roxana Jullapat and Daniel Mattern's Friends and Family in East Hollywood, Los Angeles bakes ancient-grain pastry from California-milled flours.
Worth the queue: Pecan sticky bun
Clark Street Bread ★ 4.4
Zach Hall's Clark Street Bread on Larchmont Boulevard, Los Angeles bakes a naturally leavened miche and serves morning sandwiches from a fast counter.
Worth the queue: Olive miche
The Sycamore Kitchen ★ 4.2
Karen Hatfield's Sycamore Kitchen on La Brea, Los Angeles bakes scones and tart squares from California fruit, and serves lunch from a long counter.
Worth the queue: Apricot pistachio scone
Porto's Bakery ★ 4.6
Porto's Bakery in Glendale, Los Angeles has baked Cuban pastries (potato balls, cheese rolls, guava strudels) since 1976, family-run across five locations.
Worth the queue: Cheese roll
Proof Bakery ★ 4.1
Proof Bakery in Atwater Village, Los Angeles bakes a clean almond croissant and a daily quiche from a corner cafe that doubles as the neighbourhood living.
Worth the queue: Almond croissant
Gjusta ★ 4.5
Travis Lett's Gjusta in Venice, Los Angeles is a 24-hour deli and bakery in a warehouse, baking bagels and curing lox from a 90-foot counter.
Worth the queue: Everything bagel with house lox
GGET Bakery ★ 4.1
Go Get Em Tiger's pastry counter on Larchmont, Los Angeles bakes a daily rotation of muffins and a sticky banana bread to go with the cafe's almond latte.
Worth the queue: Banana bread
Fugetsu-Do ★ 4.4
Fugetsu-Do in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles has hand-pounded mochi since 1903 from the same family. Strawberry daifuku from the morning batch is the order.
Worth the queue: Strawberry daifuku
Milo and Olive ★ 4.0
Milo and Olive in Santa Monica, Los Angeles is Zoe Nathan's bakery-pizzeria, baking morning biscuits and serving sourdough pizza from a 26-seat room.
Worth the queue: Maple bacon biscuit