🍰 Best Desserts & Bakeries in San Diego
36 desserts & bakeries spots in San Diego, scored and ranked for 2026.
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Bonjour Patisserie
Bonjour Patisserie is a French pastry shop and cafe in Little Italy that grew from farmers-market stalls into a brick-and-mortar location. The kitchen makes its pastries from scratch, including vegan ...
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2
Murî
A North Park coffee and dessert bar built around Kurdish culture and the idea of collective living. The owners fold their heritage into the space and the menu, pairing sourced beans with tea, pastries...
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3
Wayfarer Bread & Pastry
Chef Crystal Sawyer's Bird Rock bakery — a naturally-leavened bread program, laminated pastry case that sells out daily, and a morning-only format that has made Wayfarer the SD baker's-reference bread...
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4
Izola Bakery
Izola Bakery bakes on Island Avenue in Downtown San Diego's East Village, working a small lineup of croissants, wild sourdough, and vanilla knots. The pastry counter rotates specials like the ugly bit...
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5
Prager Brothers Artisan Breads
Prager Brothers Artisan Breads is an artisan bakery in Encinitas, with breads and pastries made entirely by hand through a long fermentation process. Orders require at least three days' lead time and ...
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6
Con Pane Rustic Breads & Cafe
Liberty Station's artisan bakery anchor — Chef Catherine Perez's long-ferment sourdough, morning buns, and a sandwich counter that generates the Liberty Station morning-and-lunch line. One of SD's ref...
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Extraordinary Desserts
Karen Krasne's Bankers Hill dessert room — a French-trained pastry program with the Passion Fruit Cake as the SD dessert-shorthand, and a glass case that stops people on 5th Ave. A defining SD after-d...
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8
Pop Pie Co.
University Heights' Australian savory-pie counter — chicken curry, lamb-and-rosemary, and a small-format Park Blvd kitchen that grew from a single location into an SD-born pies brand. A specific UH ev...
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9
Mama's Bakery & Lebanese Deli
North Park's Lebanese bakery-deli since 1989 — saj flatbread cooked on the dome ovens in front of you, za'atar man'oushe, and a matriarch-run dining room that reads more Beirut than North Park. A defi...
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Yiko Yiko
Yiko Yiko is a bakery on Clairemont Mesa Boulevard in Kearny Mesa, a part of San Diego dense with Asian bakeries and cafes. The shop works the pastry-counter format, with baked goods made for takeaway...
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All 36 Desserts & Bakeries Spots in San Diego
HINAR Dessert Bar & Café
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il giardino di Lilli
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The Flower Pot Cafe and Bakery
86
Azucar Cuban Bakery
85
Bobboi Natural Gelato
85
Lil' Frenchie
85
Stella Jean's Ice Cream
85
Leucadia Donut Shoppe
85
D Bar — Hillcrest
85
Donut Bar
84
Nomad Donuts
84
Bread & Cie
84
St. Tropez Bistro & Bakery
84
Babycakes
84
Honey Bistro & Bakery
84
Parfait Paris
84
Brick & Bell Cafe
83
Zanzibar Cafe
83
Rose Donuts & Cafe
83
MooTime Creamery
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Lofty Coffee Little Italy
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MNGO Cafe
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Frost Me Cafe and Bakery
82
LAB Desserts & Coffee
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Patisserie Melanie
80
Skybound Coffee + Dessert Lounge
80
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