Patisserie Melanie
Bakery · San Diego
3750 30th St, San Diego, CA 92104
Highlights
French bakery with croissants, kouign amann, and macarons
French bakery with croissants, kouign amann, and macarons
"Led by Le Cordon Bleu-trained chef Melanie Dunn, the artisanal bakery sits in the heart of North Park. The breakfast menu includes French dishes like quiche Lorraine, croissants, and kouign-amann, an addictively crispy caramelized pastry." - Candice Woo
"A former cottage business turned full-fledged bakery and cafe in North Park whose high-demand baked goods range from buttery viennoiseries like pistachio croissants and kouign-amann to delicate canneles and macarons. Its just-launched dinner service includes French bistro classics like coq au vin, boeuf Bourgignon, and île flottante." - Candice Woo
"The North Park cafe, run by a graduate of the patisserie program at Le Cordon Bleu, specializes in French pastries. Check out the sweet and savory diamond pastries and lemon meringue croissants available on Thursdays." - Helen I. Hwang
"North Park’s charming French bakery has expanded beyond the morning hours to offer lunch and happy hour menus overseen by chef Anthony Bruno (The French Laundry, Café Chloe) with dinner service on the horizon. Running from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, the happy hour specials include a burger called Le Royale with cheese, featuring a blend of chuck, short rib, and brisket for the beef patty and a topping of brûléed Gruyère and Laphroiag-caramelized onions. There’s also a cheese and charcuterie plate as well as deals on beer and wine." - Candice Woo
"Modeled after a modern Parisian cafe, Pâtisserie Mélanie has opened its new 30th Street storefront and bakery more than three years after leasing the 1,500-square-foot corner site. Working with the architect behind Napa Valley’s famed Bouchon Bakery, the North Park salon is a sleek showcase for pastry chef Melanie Dunn, who launched her eponymous patisserie in 2018 out of the kitchen of her live-work space on Park Boulevard. A former English teacher at a San Diego area high school, Dunn spent three summers in Paris attending Le Cordon Bleu, where she earned a Diplôme de Pâtisserie while eating her way through the best bakeries in the French capital. Her menu for the cafe includes classic, yeast-leavened viennoisseries like croissants, escargots aka pains aux raisins, and two different sizes of kouign-amann, the caramelized Breton pastry, as well as canneles, macarons, financiers, and traditional cakes and tarts ranging from mille-feuille and Paris-Brest to tarte tatin. There are also coffee drinks, French-style hot chocolate, and a variety of teas and tisanes from French gourmet food house Fauchon. The North Park cafe also serves beer and wine, and a weekend brunch menu that includes croque monsieurs, quiches, tartines, and savory stuffed buckwheat crepes known as galettes. Dunn tells Eater that a full lunch menu will be offered during the week starting this summer, along with an afternoon happy hour featuring cheese plates and savory petits-fours." - Candice Woo
