One of the city's best new bakeries to open is an unexpected hit inside LACMA. C+M is Coffee + Milk, which they serve—Inteligentsia with Clover milk, if you're asking—alongside nostalgic riffs on pop tarts and Oreo cookies. Of course, being the Patina Group—chef Josh Graves also does pastry for the museum's restaurant, Ray's—you won't find ordinary retro throwbacks. Instead, familiar favorites include must-try, handheld pies—buttery, refined and irresistible—and delicate Meyer lemon curd and lavender-sprinkled pop tarts that showcase Graves' sophisticated hand and knack for pastry. The perennial goodie, chocolate chip cookie, is made with plentiful bits of chocolate and is one of the best around.
LA's best new bakeries are popping up faster than you can say, "What Atkin's diet?" Nostalgic throwbacks from C+M, Short Cake and Semi Sweet bakeries are all the rage; while pastry queen Karen Hatfield goes fine dining to neighborhood casual at Sycamore Kitchen; and Zoe Nathan conducts her ode to all things baked at Milo + Olive. Check out these six fresh batch of bakeries where sugar fiends and carbo loaders can get their fix of croissants, donuts, cookies, loaves and more.