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
Margarita Manzke's pastry counter inside Republique, Los Angeles bakes the city's reference kouign-amann, plus laminated croissants from a 1928 commissary.
Address: 624 South La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90036
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
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
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
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
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 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