Black Walnut Bakery is a chic, relaxed café with stunning floor-to-ceiling windows and a terrace, offering exquisite pastries, artisanal sandwiches, and locally sourced coffee.
"It’s not just the vaunted kouign amann — buttery with an armor of caramelized gloss — that makes Black Walnut so iconic. Everything on its menu lures us back. There’s a cassis vanilla Bavarian cake, layered with an airy chiffon sponge and an intense ganache. There are radiant lemon tarts and, of course, croissants, which are consistently flaky across both sweet and savory offerings. Custom-order cakes, sized up to nine inches, are recommended for special occasions." - Stacy Brooks, Eater Staff
"Chef Sarah Botcher serves her breakfast sandwich on two thick slices of her buttery croissant loaf, which is exactly what it sounds like: croissant dough baked into bread form. Cradling ham and custardy eggs, this sandwich is finished with gruyère and a smear of tangy herb chèvre, then grilled in a panini press. Leave the ham out to make it vegetarian." - Justine Jones, Joy Summers
"Black Walnut Bakery’s cakes are beautiful in their simplicity — the pineapple coconut meringue cake, for example, is adorned with golden-brown peaks of meringue and toasted coconut flakes; another favorite layers a chiffon sponge with vanilla Bavarian cream and cassis preserves. Chocolate aficionados should opt for the chocolate lux or carmella cakes. Cakes range from $45 to $75." - Stacy Brooks, Eater Staff
"Sunny Black Walnut is a lovely spot to kick off the day. Pair an espresso with a crispy pastry — the paper-thin sheets of glossy, laminated dough that will no doubt shower your lap in crumbs are well worth it for the decadent, buttery flavors. Fruit tarts crowned with edible flowers, hot-pressed sandwiches, tarts, pies, puddings, cookies, and loaves of bread round out Black Walnut’s menu." - Natalia Mendez, Julie Zhou
"Black Walnut is open for carry out fresh baked goods, gorgeous whipped cream and flower topped cakes, and coffee." - Joy Summers
