Hi!

This is going to be a short email with some key updates for this weekend. Friday morning, you’ll get a different email from Downtime with an interview with a favorite baker of ours about our Saturday treat for Pastry Passport Week 2. Check your inboxes today and tomorrow for a little bit of both!

Thursday Loaf

This week’s Thursday loaf is a fan favorite: kimchi, toasted sesame, and cubed cheddar. The vegan kimchi is housemade by our resident fermentation chef, Sam. It’s rolled in sesame and so tasty.

Pastry Passport Week 2 🇳🇿 + 🇦🇺

It brings me the greatest joy to share that the first week of the Pastry Passport was an absolute smash. We sold every single cherry Bakewell tart we made, except for one that I personally ate and said, several times, out loud, “I am so happy right now.”

This Saturday, from between 9am and 12pm, get your passport stamped for the second time with an unbelievable 100% vegan treat, Downtime-ified with 100% stone-ground pastry flour and rye flour. Any guesses on what we’re serving? 🤔 It is an all-time legendary baked good in my book. 🦘🦘🦘

Heatwave 🥵

It is going to be HOT this week. We will have a ton of cold brew, iced tea, water, and A/C as cold as we can make it throughout the week to keep everyone cool. We will have maple creemees 12 to 3pm on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. But to keep ourselves cooler, we are reducing some of our Specials™️ Baking: no individual cakes on Saturday, chocolate tarts are over for June, and no bran muffins. All the rest of the menu, including sandwiches, bagels, our regular pastry menu, and breads, are still on deck. Cinnamon rolls on Saturday at 9am. Vegan carrot sandwich is back. And next week we start…tomato mozzarella basil pesto again, the absolute best of the best.

If you come into the shop this week, please reserve some particular patience for the staff — we’re baking and working in a hot environment on very hot days. We appreciate your kindness.

That’s all for now. Can’t wait to talk about Pastry Passport Week 2!

xo,

Dayna

Dayna’s What’s Up Corner

I had the most blissful surfing day on Monday, and I feel grateful that I get to surf and be in the ocean, just in general, whenever I can. I’ve been reading a ton lately, thanks to my frequent serendipitously timed visits to the Athenaeum (finish a book, randomly in the neighborhood, return a book, get a new book). I really liked My Life in Paris with Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy — it sounds more poppy than it is. I also loved Emile Zola’s The Belly of Paris, about Les Halles market back in the day. And Anna Burns’ Mostly Hero is a real weird one that I’ll probably decide if I actually liked it in a couple weeks. Does anyone want to read along The Odyssey with me? It’s been 20 years (?) since I’ve read it and I kinda wanna do that before Nolan’s movie comes out.