Best Bakery: Petit Pierre
By Seattle Mag November 10, 2025
This article originally appeared in the November/December 2025 issue of Seattle magazine.
The brainchild of award-winning chef Pierre Poulin, Petit Pierre Bakery brings elevated French pastry to a casual Seattle café (or two). With locations in Magnolia and Phinney Ridge, the bakery is small in stature, but big in flavor. Born in Paris, chef Poulin spent summers with his grandmother in Brittany, where he first learned about the art of cooking. Passionate and curious, Poulin worked in a small bakery as a teenager, eventually deciding to pursue a culinary career that took him around the world and landed him in institutions including New York’s legendary Le Cirque.
In 2016, he and his wife moved to Seattle, where they opened Petit Pierre Bakery—an absolute destination for laminated pastries like croissants (the bacon, egg, and cheese is a crowd favorite, but the gigantic rotating-flavor croissant supreme is a unique twist) and kouign amann. For those who don’t live north, Petit Pierre just opened a six-month pop-up inside Capitol Hill’s Métier bike shop, where Poulin offers pastries, sandwiches, pain au chocolat, and coffee.
Magnolia: 3204 W. McGraw St. | Phinney Ridge: 6801 Greenwood Ave. N. | petitpierrebakery.com
About Best of the Best
Everyone loves a winner. And when it comes to Seattle favorites, there’s no shortage of opinions on which places, spaces, and bites deserve top honors. This year, we did things a little differently—our staff weighed in, debating and voting to determine the best of the best across the city. We also ran our annual Readers’ Choice poll for comparison (and yes, there was overlap in just one category). Here’s to celebrating all the winners, no matter who cast the vote.
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