Chicago Bakeries

Good Selection

1. Pastoral

Neighborhood: The Loop

Excellent selection of cheeses with a good variety of wines.  My favorite are the sandwich options which are fantastically priced and taste excellent.  The Santorini sandwich is my favorite so far...

2. Oak Park Bakery

One of the best bakeries for miles.  Best chocolate eclairs.  Very good bread.  Very good selection.    Featuring butter coffee cakes --is on their labels, haven't tried them yet...

3. Sweet Mandy B's

Neighborhood: Lincoln Park

You can't go wrong with Sweet Mandy's beautiful cakes and cupcakes -- that frosting is just unbelievably good! Also love the cookies and rice krispie treats (with frosting too because just a rice...

4. Swedish Bakery

Neighborhood: Andersonville

memories but because its just old fashion good!  They have the biggest selection of desserts in the area.  Everything as well as the cakes is fresh and more delicious than the other.  The marzipan frogs...

5. Chiu Quon Bakery

Neighborhood: Uptown

are 75 cents.  They have a wide selection of baked goods: BBQ pork, chicken, hot dog, ham & cheese, coconut, custard, etc.  They also have some standard dim sum fare like pork dumplings and rice...

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Good Value

1. Pasticceria Natalina

Neighborhood: Andersonville

My wallet hates this place.  I do my best to convince it how much I love it and how it's worth every penny I spend.    I have yet to try as many of the baked goods as I'd like to, but what I've...

2. Sweet Mandy B's

Neighborhood: Lincoln Park

:  phenomenal.  The cakes: adorable and delicious.  Actually, I have never been disappointed by anything from S.M.B. and I can be somewhat critical of baked goods.    This place is very cute, usually busy (can...

3. Solomon's Gourmet…

Neighborhood: Bucktown

is good, plus you get chips and a cookie with it.   I think its a pretty good value for something that is fresh and made on the premises.  I used to only get their cookies at Christmas time, given to me...

4. Specialty's Cafe &…

Neighborhood: The Loop

Potbelly's or Subway very rarely (if I feel uninspired by other sandwich options), but I think that their bread is of very low quality and I find Goodwins to be a good value, but mediocre.  The first few...

5. Nhu Lan

Neighborhood: Lincoln Square

Good pork belly sandwich. Excellent value and very friendly service. In and out no problem for lunch. Great bread too....

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