Portland Spring Break Trip 2018 - Day 6: Return to An Xuyen Bakery

For our 6th day of the Portland 2018 trip, we revisited a bakery we enjoyed back in 2012...

which was An Xuyen in the SE Quadrant...

St. Honore Boulangerie, downtown Portland

Freshly caffeinated from our visit to Deadstock Coffee, we three trekked along the Portland streets to get to the museum...

(Bert and TC above)

I even took a sip of water from this four-bowl Benson Bubbler...

Foodcrawl with Mary & Lynn - Stops 2 & 3: Mexican Bakeries + Stop 4 at Lannboon Asia Cafe

Near Birrieria don Rafa was a bakery I had recently visited with Cathy...

where we were gifted with cake pops from the nice lady at Mexico Lindo...

Food Crawl with Cathy - Stop 1 @ Mexico Lindo Bakery + Stop 2 @ Al Pastor

The first Friday of the New Year brought me and Cathy of mmm-yoso to this corner...

Broadway and E in this unassuming strip mall...

The French Oven revisit

After lunch at Tambayan, D and I headed up north...

we would have coffee but first, the French Oven...

Bert's Birthday Crawl - The French Oven, Scripps Ranch

Today is Bert's birthday (we are 148 days apart; I've always taken his word for that too, ha ha),

and as has been our custom over the past few years...what better way to start a birthday weekend than to head out early for a crawl...

Ryan Brothers Coffee, Lemon Grove + the Giant Lemon and the Lips rock

I didn't realize that Ryan Bros Coffee had set up shop here in this historic Streamline Moderne corner shop in downtown Lemon Grove...

Thankfully replacing Charbucks (which moved down the street as a drive-thru)...

Summer Road Trip 2018 Day 1 - The new Brodard's in Fountain Valley + return to Paderia Bakehouse

Earlier this spring, Brodard's moved from it's original location behind the Mall of Fortune...

two miles away to Fountain Valley...

Wayfarer Bread & Pastry

Yesterday we made the rare trip up to La Jolla...

more specifically the Bird Rock area...

Portland Day 3 - Red Fox Vintage + Grand Central Bakery in Woodstock

Just up the street from Cloud City Ice Cream...

is another of of Portland's many thrift stores...

Frost Me Cafe & Bakery with Kirbie

This past weekend, I had the pleasure of meeting up with my friend Kirbie...

who selected today's destination...

Return to Bree'osh, Montecito

There didn't seem to be any stoplights in Montecito...

The main road is a bitch to cross...

Portland Day 2 - Ken's Artisan Bakery

Literally a stone's throw away from Sterling Coffee Roasters

was a bakery we had bypassed six years ago...

Bree'Osh, Montecito

There was a bakery I wanted to check out in the upscale town north of Carp...

we took a wrong turn and I noticed this vintage sign...

Patisserie Melanie

After our drinks from refill, we made our way back to this building...

This photo was actually taken as we were walking TO refill...

Last few road stops + Tustin's THH & Cream Pan + Spring Break Road Trip 2017 post round up

I drove my leg of the trip...

and we stopped at Kettleman City,

A failed visit to a new patisserie + return to Elijah's

Bert and I hauled ass to get here...

in the vain hope that maybe...just maybe...

Bread and Cie - Breakfast & Lunch

A few weeks ago, I took a day off..

It wasn't for leisure though...

The return of Mexico Lindo Bakery, renamed Sweet Bakery Mexico Lindo

While taking the surface streets back from National City...

I saw this yellow sign from afar...

Rolling Out Cafe

Farther east up Taraval was another bakery,

which actually had a San Diego connection...