That’s not going to do anything to close the quality gap with La Farine!

. At first, it looked very small, until we realized there was another section of vendors around the corner. La Farine bakery was there – I didn’t even know they did farmer’s markets. The place that does the...

and shopping. Farine and Peaberry’s immediately caught my attention: are they both worth checking out? Perhaps some fresh bread/pastries or a bag of coffee would be a nice addition to my gifts. Both of my gift recipients...

Pies are everywhere in the EB.... T-Rex will sell pies for Thanksgiving, as will La Farine, Crixa... I know there are others, I’m just blanking at the moment. Probably Masse’s too

pretty well, but frankly if I wasn’t going to make homemade puff, I’d drive over to La Farine in Oakland and buy it from them.

La Farine on College (just South of Alcatraz) has a selection of great pastry (croissants, frangipane [a square-shaped almond croissant], scones with excellent crumb, chocolatines, Swiss Twinkies [croissant with chopped nuts,...

're familiar with the Bay Area, the kind of place I’m looking for would be like La Farine in Berkeley and Albany — a place that makes great breakfast pastries, eclairs, and tarts, rather than a place that specializes...

La Farine makes wonderful cakes. They’re my favorite East Bay bakery for sweet things. lafarine.com

or at La Farine. I prefer the cinnamon in DeLessio’s to the orange sugar at Tartine. Best of all, the DeLessio morning buns are more well-done, so the outsides are partly caramelized while the innards (at least in the...

by La Farine or go further up the street to Masse’s near the cheeseboard. Just take San Pablo Avenue in the other direction and take a left on Solano.

Amost right in front of the sign showing the Berkeley/Oakland city line on College Ave between Alcatraz and 63rd is La Farine, which has excellent croissants.

Have you tried La Farine's baguettes? They run circles around Semifreddi’s.

In the East Bay, have you tried La Farine's Irish soda bread? I know they don’t really have an Irish thing going on, but...it’s really good. Tender on the inside, a little crumbly on the crust, the perfect amount of...

When I’m not eating chocolate tarts, I like the La Farine pear ginger tart and the Miette key lime tart.

much I make my mother get her own. I have heard that dessert at Garibaldi’s on college ave is very good. but I also just saw on CL that they are looking for a PC so the good one may have left...? do not eat things at La...