Having just sent a photo-rich IRDC Guide to San Francisco Restaurants to the printer (watch your mail in mid-June), we’ve got food on the brain.

Which is why we’re adding Parisian-style pastry shop Miette, a non-restaurant entry in the guide, to our list of interesting stores to explore in San Francisco during the conference.

Self-taught baker Meg Ray and husband Chris designed the luscious space, “using elaborate crown moldings and vibrant floral wallpaper to create the perfect theater for our cakes and pastries,” she writes in her new cookbook, Miette: Recipes from San Francisco’s Most Charming Pastry Shop (Chronicle Books, June 2011).

You’ll get a taste of Miette—literally and figuratively—if you visit Ray’s smallish shop in the Ferry Building Marketplace. But the larger store in the Hayes Valley neighborhood offers the full experience: old-fashioned candies in glass canisters … irresistible cakes, cupcakes, cookies and tarts … even made-to-order organic cotton candy.

No wonder Miette is a popular spot for children’s birthday parties, baby showers and even cocktail parties for adults. Care for a glass of Chardonnay with your Coconut Mousse Cake?

MIETTE
449 Octavia Street
415.626.6221
SUN-FRI 12 - 7 | SAT 11 - 7