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Best Baked Desserts in San Francisco

Your guide to the best bakeries, donut shops, cake makers, cookie bakers, and pastry chefs in San Francisco, CA.

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Doughful features hand-picked bakeries in San Francisco, CA — including top-rated cake shops, cookie bakeries, cupcake studios, pastry shops, and artisan bread bakeries. Each listing includes verified Google reviews, current hours, directions, and direct links to order online.

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The San Francisco Dessert Scene

San Francisco’s modern pastry scene is built on technique and pushed forward by reinvention. Discover six bakeries turning laminated dough, Korean flavors, classic cake, salt bread, and pastry design into something distinctly contemporary.
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Top Rated Bakeries in San Francisco

The highest-rated shops in the city, straight from verified Google reviews.

Follow the Dough

Follow the Dough through San Francisco’s modern pastry scene, where rigorous technique becomes the starting point for reinvention. From Korean salt bread and a runny-egg pastry reveal to Tartine’s Morning Bun, Korean-French croissants, benchmark kouign-amann, and a century-old Princess Cake, these six stops show why the city’s most exciting sweets are built as carefully as they are imagined.

📍6 Stops🚗9-11 miles⏱️45-60 min
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8:00 AM
Tano
Korean salt bread, rotating flavors, and San Francisco’s drop-era pastry culture
Start with one of San Francisco’s newest pastry obsessions: crisp-bottomed Korean salt bread from a three-day-a-week downtown pop-up built around experimentation and sellouts.
⏱️ 25 minVisit Site ↗
🚗About 10-15 min
8:40 AM
Craftsman and Wolves
A cult San Francisco pastry where technique becomes theater
Cut into the Rebel Within and see why one of San Francisco’s most recognizable modern pastries became a cult object: sausage, cheese, scallion, and a soft-cooked egg hidden inside.
⏱️ 25 minVisit Site ↗
🚗About 5 min
9:15 AM
Tartine Bakery
The bakery that helped make meticulous bread and pastry part of modern San Francisco food culture
Taste the Morning Bun at the Mission bakery that helped define a generation of San Francisco bread and pastry culture.
⏱️ 30 minVisit Site ↗
🚗About 10-15 min
10:00 AM
Jina Bakes
Korean flavors and French pastry technique meet in the heart of Japantown
Try the flaky-chewy Injeolmi Croissant from a bakery that turns Korean flavors and textures into some of San Francisco’s most distinctive modern pastries.
⏱️ 30 minVisit Site ↗
🚗About 5-10 min
10:40 AM
b. patisserie
Classical pastry discipline sharpened through a distinctly San Francisco point of view
Taste Belinda Leong and Michel Suas’s benchmark Kouign Amann at a patisserie built around modern French technique, American flavors, and local influence.
⏱️ 30 minVisit Site ↗
🚗About 5-10 min
11:20 AM
Schubert's Bakery
A century-old cake house proving classic pastry can still own the social-media moment
Finish with the marzipan-covered Swedish Princess Cake at a San Francisco bakery that has been making celebration cakes since 1911.
⏱️ 30 minVisit Site ↗
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