Monday Bakery - Napa

Really good local cafe and bakery. Try the custom syrups they make on site for the coffee. Croissant was amazing coffee cake super moist and delicious. Will return

Not good enough.I baked a strawberry coffee cake last week, and it was mind blowing good rich in flavor, soft and fluffy, beautiful crumb. So I was excited to try this strawberry coffee cake. Unfortunately, can’t really taste the strawberries, crumb on top is too hard, cake texture could be softer.Kouign amann didn’t spark joy I expect from beautiful lamination of butter and caramelized sugar… just wasn’t there.

I went to this darling and impeccably clean bakery this morning. I was staying at a nearby hotel and found it on Google. What a find! I wish I could’ve tried one of everything in their display case but I ended up with a morning bun and a double espresso. It was the best morning bun I’ve ever eaten. The coffee was good, too. I wish I had gotten a few other pastries to take back with me to my home in Monterey. I’ll definitely go back when I visit the Napa Valley again.

If you have three employees behind the counter, at least acknowledge customers who are waiting their turn at the counter.

Full disclosure I took far more pictures of pastries than what I actually tasted but what I did taste was delicious. Ordered:Banana cream croissant: flaky, buttery croissant filled with a banana flavored cream that tasted like real banana (not faux flavoring) without being overly sweetPina colada cruffin: could have possibly done with a tiny bit less pineapple jam filling but still tastyEverything was great!