Le Dix-Sept Pâtisserie

Le Dix-Sept: This Stunning French Bakery Is Expanding to Potrero Hill in San Francisco | Eater SF

"I’m excited that one of San Francisco’s most beautiful bakeries is opening a second Potrero Hill location at 455 Carolina Street this summer: the new lilac flagship will finally let baker-owner Michelle Hernandez produce and sell in the same place after years of hauling pastries from a separate production kitchen. Trained at Le Cordon Bleu and in Michelin-starred kitchens in Paris before returning to the Bay Area in 2011, Hernandez opened a Mission storefront in 2020 but struggled with pandemic delays and construction issues; the Potrero space—a modern, industrial storefront in the Mason on Mariposa building designed by David Baker Architects with tall windows, steel beams, a huge lilac lime-washed wall, and about 1,100 square feet mostly dedicated to baking—promises better parking, earlier hours, and streamlined operations. That means more of Le Dix-Sept’s passionfruit tarts, brioche knots, custardy canelés, and tooth-sinking nougat, plus consistent choux and macarons, a sheeter for layered pastries like chaussons aux pommes, croissants with fresh twists (no plain butter), a weekly focaccia sandwich with good cheese and seasonal veggies (sometimes smoked salmon), daily cake specials such as Mexican chocolate mocha, guava tres leches, or chamomile and kumquat, and coffee from Lady Falcon frothed into lavender and rose lattes alongside fizzy drinks like prickly pear. Hernandez will be on site to tend the case and greet customers, continuing her community focus of baking wedding and birthday cakes and celebrating local milestones." - Becky Duffett