LaSalle Bakery ★ 4.3
LaSalle on Smith Street is the Smith Hill neighborhood Italian bakery; cakes, cookies, sandwiches, breakfast pastries, a steady morning line.
Worth the queue: Cake by the slice
Ellie's Bakery is a bakery in Downtown, Providence.
Editorially verified May 31, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Address: 250 Westminster Street, Providence, RI 02903
LaSalle on Smith Street is the Smith Hill neighborhood Italian bakery; cakes, cookies, sandwiches, breakfast pastries, a steady morning line.
Worth the queue: Cake by the slice
Seven Stars opened its Hope Street flagship in January 2001 at Hope and Fourth. Country bread, croissant, the morning bun every East Sider knows.
Worth the queue: Morning bun
Seven Stars Broadway opened in 2007 as the West Side sister to the Hope Street original. Country breads, pain au chocolat, the same croissants.
Worth the queue: Pain au chocolat
Scialo Bros opened on Atwells in 1916 and reopened in 2021 after a pandemic-era closure. Cannoli filled to order from brick ovens dating to the 1920s.
Worth the queue: Cannoli, filled to order
LaSalle on Smith Street is the Smith Hill neighborhood Italian bakery; cakes, cookies, sandwiches, breakfast pastries, a steady morning line.
Worth the queue: Cake by the slice
Knead Doughnuts on Cromwell Street in Providence, the Rhode Island gourmet doughnut counter using locally sourced flour and dairy with rotating seasonal.
Worth the queue: Brown butter glazed yeast doughnut
Knead Doughnuts has multiple Providence storefronts; the Elmgrove cafe on the East Side is the steadiest. Daily rotating brioche and cake-doughnut menu.
Worth the queue: Maple bacon brioche