Beloved Virtual Bakery Bee’s Cakes Will Soon Open a Cafe and Cake Shop in Roseway | Eater Portland

"Powazek will take over the soon-to-close Heim Bakery space to open Bee’s Cakes and Cafe, where she plans to serve breakfast pastries, croissants, and slices of her well-known cakes while keeping a loose, rotating menu of croissants, bars, cookies, and breakfast pastries. I learned she intends to keep signature cakes like the pineapple-coconut carrot cake filled with cream cheese frosting and toffee chips and the orange poppyseed cake with orange buttercream and orange curd, and she’s been making items such as brioche buns inspired by everything bagels filled with scallion cream cheese; she’s also confident cardamom rolls and cinnamon rolls will be regulars. Once COVID-19 cases slow she hopes to open for onsite brunch with breakfast sandwiches (including those on Portuguese bolo levedo), breakfast burritos, and yogurt bowls, plus espresso made with Kafiex Roasters coffee and chai from One Stripe Chai; until then she plans pre-ordered pickups while slowly renovating the space and hopes to open in some capacity by the end of June, saying “everything fell into place” after a rough five months and that it’s nice to have a home that is theirs." - Brooke Jackson-Glidden