21 editor picks in St. Louis.
St. Louis bakeries cluster around the city's own sweets, above all the gooey butter cake. Park Avenue Coffee in Lafayette Square bakes more than 70 varieties of the dessert invented here, while the family-run Missouri Baking Company on The Hill is famous for cookies by the pound. La Patisserie Chouquette in Botanical Heights and Nathaniel Reid Bakery in Kirkwood bring classical French technique to the case.
21 bakery places in St. Louis we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in St. Louis · Bakery across every city.
Order Country loaf and lunchtime pizza
Union Loafers bakes naturally leavened bread and runs a lunchtime cafe of sandwiches in Botanical Heights, a James Beard-nominated bakery and pizza spot.
Order Mom's Traditional gooey butter cake
Park Avenue Coffee bakes more than 70 varieties of gooey butter cake, the dessert invented here, served with house-roasted coffee in Lafayette Square.
Order Gooey butter cake without powdered sugar
A decades-old Affton bakery, Federhofer's makes a distinctive gooey butter cake without cream cheese or powdered sugar, plus full cases of cakes and cookies.
Order Almond-paste gooey butter cake and cookies
A family-run Italian-American bakery on The Hill, Missouri Baking Company is famous for cookies by the pound and a dense, almond-paste gooey butter cake.
Order Macarons and laminated pastries
Chef Simone Faure's French patisserie in Botanical Heights turns out macarons, croissants and cakes with classical technique.
Order Entremets, tarts and viennoiserie
Award-winning pastry chef Nathaniel Reid makes precise modern French entremets, tarts and viennoiserie in Kirkwood, rated the metro's finest pastry case.
Order Cakes, cookies and seasonal pastries
Whisk bakes cakes, cookies and seasonal pastries from scratch on Cherokee Street with a sustainability focus, a community-minded anchor of the Cherokee crawl.
Order Salted caramel-chocolate cookies and muffins
A tiny Lindenwood Park bakery, Pint Size turns out muffins, scones and a cult salted caramel-chocolate cookie alongside Kaldi's coffee.
Order Seasonal fruit pies and cakes
A small Dogtown bakery, Sugaree specialises in scratch pies and layer cakes, a neighbourhood spot known for seasonal fruit pies.
Order Hot salami sandwich on fresh-baked bread
A James Beard America's Classics winner on The Hill, Gioia's slices its house Hot Salami onto fresh-baked bread, a sandwich St.
Order Custom cakes and gooey butter cake
A South County mainstay since 1956, McArthur's is a classic full-service bakery known for celebration cakes and a deep case of St.
Order Apple fritter and red velvet cake doughnut
World's Fair Donuts has fried hand-made yeast and cake doughnuts from a small Vandeventer shop for almost 90 years, the city's classic doughnut counter.
Order Rotating collaboration doughnuts
Strange Donuts makes inventive, often over-the-top doughnuts and rotating collaboration flavours from a Maplewood shop, a playful local doughnut institution.
Order Vegan cakes and cupcakes
Reine Bayoc's SweetArt bakes plant-based cakes, cupcakes and savoury plates with strong vegan and gluten-free options, a longtime favourite now in Midtown.
Order Strudel, stollen and cakes
A family German-American bakery in old-town Florissant, Helfer's makes strudel, stollen and bakery-case classics, a long-running north-county favourite.
Order Cannoli, cookies and Italian bread
A small Italian bakery on The Hill, Marconi turns out cannoli, cookies and crusty Italian bread to a neighbourhood crowd, a no-frills Hill morning stop.
Order Kouign-amann and galettes
Comet's serious in-house micro-bakery turns out kouign-amann and seasonal galettes alongside the espresso, a pastry program that rivals the coffee here.
Order Breaded, fried toasted ravioli
STL Toasted took over the old Mama Toscano's space on The Hill and built a counter around toasted ravioli, the breaded-and-fried St.
Order Original gooey butter cake
Gooey Louie bakes the city's signature gooey butter cake from scratch in mini and full sizes from a small Clayton Road shop minutes west of Forest Park.
Gus' Pretzels on Arsenal St in Benton Park is the 1920 bakery hand-twisting soft pretzels and salami sticks in the shadow of the Anheuser-Busch brewery.
Federhofer's Bakery (Bakery) in St Louis: Its gooey butter is a denser, old-school style than the cream-cheese versions.
