"Badash Bakes owner Ashley Cunningham consistently finds a queue of customers formed well before she unlocks the doors. Since opening on April 29, the staff prepares ceremonial grade-matcha cinnamon rolls, coffee, matcha lattes, red velvet cake, banana bread loaf, blueberry muffins, brownies, and banana pudding. Cunningham developed a robust social media following as a private chef before taking her talents to an industrial kitchen, and ultimately her popular brick-and-mortar on Colorado Boulevard, just east of Marengo Avenue. — Mona Holmes, editor, Eater Southern California/Southwest" - Matthew Kang