Ayu Bakehouse
A Frenchmen Street bakery with laminated dough, local flavor, and no need to lean on nostalgia.
Marigny
Ayu Bakehouse could have been merely convenient: a good bakery on Frenchmen Street, open when the neighborhood needs coffee and pastry. Instead it became one of the more precise arguments for new New Orleans baking.
The savory pastries are the point, especially when local flavors show up inside French technique without becoming a gimmick. King cake season brings attention, but the bakery is worth visiting year-round for bread, breakfast sandwiches, and the pleasure of starting a music-street morning before the music starts.
Use it before a Marigny walk, after a late night, or as the civilized counterpoint to Frenchmen after dark.
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