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
Scialo Bros Bakery is a bakery in Federal Hill, Providence.
Editorially verified May 31, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Address: 257 Atwells Avenue, 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
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
Knead's Smith Street outpost serves the daily brioche and cake-doughnut rotation in the same morning window as the other shops; counter ordering.
Worth the queue: Classic glazed brioche
Youssef Akhtarini's Aleppo Sweets is the Ives Street Syrian counter that opened in 2019. Eight baklava styles from walnut to chocolate pistachio.
Worth the queue: Pistachio baklava
Hartley's English pork pies use the 1902 recipe Thomas Hartley brought from England. The Lincoln RI satellite serves the Somerset MA original's classics.
Worth the queue: Original pork pie