Azúcar

Signature bakes

1. 01Guava-and-cheese pastelito
2. 02Cheese roll
3. 03Pastelito de carne
4. 04Raspberry-passion fruit scone
5. 05Divina cake
6. 06Salted toffee oatmeal cookie

Bread, pastry, savory, cake

Bread

Bread is chiefly used for cafe items, including the Cubano and the cinnamon-syrup-brushed Cuban meat pie; no broad retail-loaf program is published.

Pastry

All-butter puff-pastry guava-and-cheese pastelitos and cheese rolls are baked in small batches, alongside croissants, scones, cookies, key-lime squares, and plated-style individual desserts.

Savory

Cuban meat pies, ham croquetas, mini papas rellenas, quiche, a slow-roasted-pork Cubano, the guava-and-cream-cheese Havana sandwich, and the tortilla-inspired España.

Ordering

Walk in

Walk-ins order from a counter stocked through the day with small-batch pastries, breakfast, lunch, desserts, and coffee.

How it works

Counter-service bakery cafe with takeout, online pickup, and a small dine-in footprint.

The room

Inside

A few small tables are available inside.

Outside

A few sidewalk tables are available outside.

Good to know

• ✦The tradition: Cuban flavors expressed through the owner's classical French pastry training.
• ✦Vivian Hernandez-Jackson pairs classical French technique with Cuban roots. Start with a guava-and-cheese pastelito or cheese roll, then add the unusually savory pastelito de carne or Cubano.
• ✦Rotating: Seasonal vegetarian quiche
• ✦Rotating: Seasonal berries on granola
• ✦Rotating: Rotating scone flavors
• ✦Diet: Gluten-free banana chia seed muffin
• ✦Warm pastries can come directly from the oven
• ✦The compact shop works for a quick pastry-and-coffee stop
• ✦Lines move reasonably quickly even when they form before opening