Japonaise Bakery Closed; It's Back To Cream Pan and Cream Pan Alone

When it comes to baking, Cream Pan can do no wrong. But as a business trying to expand its reach, it has struggled. The bakery that started out as a literal hole-in-the-wall appears to be shuttering its not-as-successful café spin-off. Even as it...

A few months ago, I reported that Japonaise Bakery N Cafe ceased to exist, but that it was being transformed to become something else, something that the employee working at Cream Pan next door vaguely told me was going to be a “Japanese...

Did you hear about the crookie? It's basically a croissant with an Oreo cookie baked in it, the latest croissant Frankenstein monster to go viral after the insanity that followed the cronut. Well, world, you can have you cronuts and your crookies....

It's no secret that most coffee houses source their pastries from elsewhere. Kean Coffee buys theirs almost exclusively from Pacific Whey Cafe. I'm sure other local java joints do the same. It's a symbiotic relationship as perfect as the pairing...

Today, we pit two strawberry croissants from two local bakeries against each other. The defending champion is Cream Pan's famous strawberry croissant ($2.30): the one thing that trumps everything else it does, a pastry that sells out by the...