Portland, ORBakeries

Café Olli in the Boise neighborhood turns out the Every Day Loaf, the sourdough Portland Monthly calls its own favorite, alongside Portuguese custard tarts and a pizza program with its own following. The Italian-leaning kitchen pairs straightforward, well-executed bread and pastry, making it a dependable stop whether the pull is a loaf, a tart, or a slice.

Founder Tim Healea trained at Pearl Bakery before opening Little T on Division Street, and Portland Monthly singles out its Sally Lunn, a pale-yellow loaf with a rich, buttery crumb. The Hosford-Abernethy shop has built a steady reputation for consistent artisanal bread over more than a decade in the neighborhood.

Ken's turns out rustic French-style breads and morning pastries, including the orange-zested morning bun Portland Monthly calls iconic. It is one of the city's longest-running bread bakeries and a reference point for the wave of Portland shops that followed it into serious European-style baking over the years.

Berlu bakes Vietnamese pastries alongside familiar viennoiserie, with its banh bo nuong, a pandan-fragrant honeycomb cake, called out by Portland Monthly. The Buckman bakery blends French technique with Vietnamese flavor in a way that sets it apart from the city's more traditional bread shops.

Nuvrei anchors the Pearl District with a wide pastry case, and Portland Monthly highlights its flourless chocolate chip walnut cookie among the classic French pastries the shop turns out daily. It is a dependable downtown stop for croissants and cookies alike, morning or afternoon.