Coquette Bakery

Best local bread in Southern Oregon! Their rosemary loaf is my favorite. The bread has a great crust, which is perfect to serve with soups or just eat with a great cheese. I also love their cinnamon sugar pastry. It’s buttery, flakey delisciousness!

Gayle and I ran into the Coquette Bakery booth at the Rogue Valley Growers Market both on Tuesday at the Ashland Armory and Saturday on Oak Street Downtown Ashland. Their bread is excellent and a great way to enjoy snacks back at the Hotel or to take home.

The puff pastry in their croissants is handmade and classic; the baked pastries made with it are redolent of yeast and highest quality butter. Perfectly browned, the layered pastry is both crisp and meltingly tender. The brioche is as good as the croissants. I haven’t had everything they make but have sampled their breads, and they are good, too. I am stingy with praise because the French side of my family owns a bakery (boulangerie) in Nimes, France and do not use machinery to produce laminated dough, and there is a difference worth trying. Local restaurants would do well to puchase their puff pastry from Coquette for their in-​house use – it is that good. Frozen puff pastry is a sad approximation of the real thing. Go by and try a ham-​and-​cheese, almond, or plain croissant. I see a lot of regulars buy the pain au chocolat also. This week I also bought plum tarts made with Santa Rosa plums, and they were excellent.