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Bywater Bakery

Bywater

Bywater Bakery is a corner bakery in the older sense: useful all week, not only when a pastry trend rolls through town. Breakfast, lunch, coffee, cakes, king cake in season, and the kind of casual traffic that makes a neighborhood place feel earned.

It is especially good as a Bywater morning stop, before the heat comes up and before the day starts demanding decisions. Order something baked, something savory if the morning has become lunch, and sit like you have not scheduled every minute of the trip.

The guide needs places like this because not every essential meal in New Orleans announces itself with a white tablecloth or a line down the block.

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