"If you know B Sweet, you know Chef Barb Batiste. She opened the shop in April 2009, but her love of baking started as a kid - watching her mom make Filipino desserts, she’d bake chocolate chip cookies and other American desserts that she’d share with all the neighbors in her building. Early on in her career, Batiste worked at the Loews Hotel in Santa Monica as a pastry chef. But still nostalgic for the homemade desserts of her childhood, she started selling her chocolate chip banana bread to local businesses, which led to her starting B Sweet as a catering company. The brick-and-mortar in Sawtelle has been operating as pick up and delivery-only for the past year, and she said she’s been lucky to continue her catering business with clients like the Dodgers. Even with her success over the years, the face-to-face connection with her customers is still what she looks forward to most, and being able to have people gather at her shop safely once more. Until then, keep ordering ahead for pick up, or snag some sweets online that can be shipped nationwide. Order this: Any of their various bread puddings (Chef Barb’s favorite is the red velvet)." - with warm welcome, leslie yeh
