St. Honoré Boulangerie

Their baked goods are super cute and tasty! I loved everything that I tried and the quality of the mini cakes are super.

So so yummy! My husband and I felt like we were in Paris. The kitchen was crazy busy because everything is made fresh! I will definitely be back!

I’ve decided that I should order the same dish 3x to see if I get a consistent taste, experience. The Strasbourg was it.
First time was amazing. The second was a few days later which was good, since I couldn’t stop thinking about it, The third time was two weeks later, and it was so-​so.
Needless to say, I’ve not ordered it since; but I do return for a loaf of bread when I attend dinner parties. A gift to my host/​hostess.
The service here is always great.

Great neighborhood eatery in the alphabet district. Always fresh and tasty. I enjoy sitting outside with puppy dog sipping coffee and eating croissants. Good place to strike up a conversation with the next table.

Very good! The food is always consistent and the staff is extremely friendly.
Café atmosphere with little tables. The food is always delicious and you don’t have to worry about not liking what you get. The menu is straight forward and as long as you like the description then you will definitely enjoy your meal.
Chouquettes are a must have! If you’re planning on just grabbing a beverage, be sure to order some of these as well.

Fabulous bakery and the best almond milk latte I’ve ever had. My favorite is the turkey and cheese croissant with the homemade vinaigrette dressing.
I love the simple French décor and the open patio on sunny day! A favorite NW staple!

Holy god. I love this place so much! St. Honoré is good as café and a place to pick some really good bread for dinner.
As a café, there hasn’t been one item that I haven’t loved; everything from the coffee to the delicious little pastries have been excellent. The ambiance is also wonderful — busy without being overwhelming. So be warned, seating can be a little challenging.
As a bakery, the bread is amazing! We picked up the Parisian for dinner last weekend and even two days later it was tasty. Warmed in the oven with a little butter; it was like heaven.

Love this place! I had one of their chocolate eclairs and omg it was heaven. Usually I’m not a big chocolate person but this éclair was not overly sweet. It was perfect! Their cappuccinos are quite tasty as well. This is also my favorite place to get croissants and treats for my family. Their lunch is also super cute and delicious and I imagine this place is what a French café would look like! I would love to try their quiches next time!

The food, delicious! Salad, just the top portion of the top leaves got very little dressing, I took my salad home to eat and add more dressing, along with half of my sandwich.
The table, too small for 2. Although, I’ve seen 4 people on the same table, they do just fine. I for myself, prefer a larger table, enough for my soup, my purse, my sandwich plate, & drinks, etc.
The service, good, very helpful, too! I wanted to know which of their desserts are good for freezing, if he didn’t know for sure the correct answer, he went to ask for help.
The bathroom, dirty, floor in front of the toilet, a big puddle, I have to go ‘sideways’, but it’s hard to reach the TP.

Great café by 23^rd street. The pastries are amazing and atmosphere is wonderful. The French macarons, croissants and Friand aux Amandes is worth trying.

I’ve been wanting to go here for awhile now and finally saw a chance on this sunny Monday I had off of work! We ordered to go and just got a few pastries. The second I walked in the door I was overwhelmed with the scent of fresh baked bread. We ordered a chocolate hazelnut croissant, maple bacon croissant and a mini raspberry croissant. All of them were so delicious! Definitely coming back
Came again with my best friend and sat in for lunch. Shared a turkey and cheese croissant and was not disappointed! The crisp was perfect and the cheese was so gooey! I also got an apricot tart that was so good I’m going to dream about it! On my way out, I grabbed a bacon roll and that’s the only impulse buy I sort of regret. It was too crispy on the outside and tasted a little burnt. But the inside was so doughy, maybe dipped in soup it’d be better!

Upper-​mid level prices, nice atmosphere
Need a key for bathroom
Very good flavors.
Sweets not too sweet – leaving you feeling satisfied and not sick.
Strausberg panini was very good; spicy & flavorful kraut:)

I’ve been wanting to go here for awhile now and finally saw a chance on this sunny Monday I had off of work! We ordered to go and just got a few pastries. The second I walked in the door I was overwhelmed with the scent of fresh baked bread. We ordered a chocolate hazelnut croissant, maple bacon croissant and a mini raspberry croissant. All of them were so delicious! Definitely coming back

Wonderful breakfast place — the aroma inside is simply bakery heaven. We had a breakfast croissant, several of their pastries, and coffee. Got here early and there was plenty of seating but it’s not hard to see why there can be a wait. Everything was delicious, and it was quite fun to watch the bread be made as well — you can see into the middle of the kitchen.

I have to start with that I had a panini sandwich that had way too much balsamic vinegar on it but after I said something to the cashiers they just made me one fresh and didn’t bat and eye at all. Once it was finished it was so delicious and a lot better without the vinegar. But that’s not even the best part. The best part was the almond croissant that was made with precision and technical perfection, I only know because I have made my share of croissants. And I would like to give a shout out the two bakers/​Chefs who talked to me and let my kids play with dough balls which they loved. Thank you Malia, and Moises for your hospitality. This bakery has to be the best one I have been to on the west coast, and every time I go to Portland I will make it a point to spend some money there.
Thanks for the great customer experience, because a lot of places have forgotten that’s how you keep a loyal customer.
~Chef Trey Lamont

Very nice (but expensive) French bakery. They have lots of pastries, breads, sandwiches, Its all very good. So good that it is now a chain, this was the first.
My favorite thing here is the simple but good chouquettes. Nice pastry with a sugar coating. A bunch come in a bag, perfict for snacking.
If you are here for a meal, finding a seat can be a chalenge. It especially crowded at lunch times.
Really though, while the lunches are really good. For me its all about the pastries. besides the chalienge there are lots of options. It really just depends on your taste. Everything I have had here has been delicious and pretty.
It’s a bit out of the way, and parking can be difficult but the food here is worth it.

We come here often and somehow I always forget to check in and review this wonderful place. It’s a slice of Europe here in Portland. Great bakery and tasty lunches equals slow moving for several hours following a stop here. A Portland must.

With three locations, this establishment can no longer consider itself an ‘undiscovered jewel’ — but it still amazes me that there are people who’ll go downtown to a hotel for breakfast when this place is not far away.
I’ve been going here since this was their only location — and while over the years, it’s gone from ‘where?’ to ‘yeah!’, the quality and service have remained the same.
The moment you walk through the front door, the word ‘real’ comes to mind — from the stone floor to the clear-​grain 100+ year old beams in the ceiling of the restored building to the imported French oven, your first impression is going to be ‘this is the real deal’.
Of course, the smell of fresh bread, pastries and other goodies won’t hurt that ambient feeling, either.
The openness of the place is the next thing you’ll notice — this isn’t an American breakfast joint, where booths cut up the room and everyone’s encouraged to be separate — there’s a huge table up front, and you’ll rub shoulders with soccer moms out for a run, cyclists (of which there are usually several), downtown residents and suburbanites looking for a bit of urbanity. In summertime, the door-​wall opens to the street, with plenty of outdoor seating as well.
What’s good? Everything. Their Normandy tart is a food group all of its own — the coffee is predictably excellent, served up in large bowl-​sized cups. Don’t go here on some sort of gluten free/​fat free/​vegan existentialist diet — there’s real cream for your coffee, and the pastries are flaky and drowning in butter. Grab a bag (or three) of those little chouquettes near the register — heaven!
In one of the cases, you can take your pick of croque monsieur/​croque madame; two types of quiche (Lorraine and Jardinière), plus a whole lot of other goodies. Me? I’m usually down for a Lorraine-​and-​salad (I’d love to know how they make that champagne-​Dijon vinegarette). Also available are those delightful French baguette sandwiches if you’re there around lunchtime (or want ‘em to go).
Some hints:
1. Get there early. They open around seven, and the place is packed of a morning by eight (Lunch might be a similar experience, although I can’t speak to that).
2. It’s on the moderate side, price wise, so come expecting that. Again — this isn’t an American coffee shop.
3. Load up. If you’re like me, and a visit here is a destination rather than a daily thing, bringing home a bag or three of the chouquettes and a sandwich for ‘later’ is a good idea.
Looking for real food? You can’t go wrong here.

Dropped in for some croissants and desert to go… nom! Great displays, amazing pastries and wonderful service. Their sandwiches and such looked pretty incredible — I cannot wait to drop by for lunch sometime.

After a long hike through Forrest Park on my first visit to Portland, I was looking for a bakery. This came up on Unilocal.The desserts and sandwiches *looked* like they were going to be amazing – glossy eclairs, puffy croissants, decadent sandwiches (even the egg salad sandwich looked super). I couldn’t wait to bite into the melty croque monsieur but it turned out to be just alright; nothing special and pretty damn salty. Surely, the glossy coffee éclair won’t disappoint. Bit into that next. Reaction: bleh, this is pretty cloying! The last bastion of hope was the almond croissant. I mean, it’s a croissant, after all and a safe bet. But it turned out to be somewhat burnt on the bottom and had a charred aftertaste. By far not the best croissant I’ve ever had. Ugh. It’s a decent place overall and the presentation is enticing as hell but I don’t think it deserves the hype.

Take it from a Portland local to know where to go for some awesome coffee and pastries.
We stopped here for lunch on a Tuesday. Yes, there’s limited parking but I noticed that tons of people come and go so there always seems to be a parking space opening up.
I started off with normal lunch food — ½ sandwich and a cup of barley soup. Very lovely. It was just the right amount, almost strategical really, because I obviously had enough room for pastries! Haha. And boy, did I try the pastries!
The Opéra cake seems tackable but my eyes were much bigger than my stomach that day and that soooooo had to be wrapped up to-​go. But more than likely it’s also because I conquered a Bacon Maple Croissant. LOL I couldn’t help it — it was just the right amount of sweet and salty that my mouth seemed to just have grown a mind of its own and started chomping away happily.

Ate here twice in the past week and it keeps getting better. Can’t wait for the third time around.

I meant to try St. Honore’s the last time I was in Portland, so this time I drove there straight from the airport. Good decision. The pain du lardon was amazing! Red pepper cream and bacon rolled in the croissant – delicious!

Great bakery, solid selection of sandwiches and outdoor seating all equals a good lunch experience. Actually, the bakery is very good and if you have a hankering for french pastries this is your place. Good atmosphere and helpful staff. Nothing bad to say. Have some wine and enjoy life.

This is the cutest little bistro and bakery. I would highly recommend stopping by, but prepare yourself for a line if you’re visiting during peak hours. It goes quickly but the seating might your problem. We always try and eat outside because it’s more relaxing and away from all of the craziness going on inside.
The selection of pastries is wide and they are delicious. We’ve tried several and they never disappoint! The food is equally as good. The quiche lorraine is fabulous… seriously. Their quiches, in general, are made extremely well and so tasty. The sandwiches are also really good. One recommendation I have — they REALLY need to dress their salads better. Four of us all got some sort of salad and they were all extremely underdressed. I actually didn’t even eat mine because it was just a side salad and I didn’t want to bother scooting around the line to get more dressing. Total disappointment and an easy fix for them.
Service is attentive, but almost two attentive. We were checked on several times within about 30 minutes, which was nice, but a lady tried to clear our drinks before we were even done. It was kind of odd. But regardless, the food and pastries make this place totally worth it. And in one of the best neighborhoods in portland! I recommend walking up 23^rd before or after and seeing all it has to offer.

Stopped here for a quick breakfast pre-​roadtrip and grabbed a panini. I got the Brie barlett panini, it was grilled to perfection and absolutely delicious. Just wasn’t a fan of the wait, but I get it.

Absolutely quaint shop with a bit of that northwest bougie-​ness going on here, but hey the coffee and food are spectacular!
I know what to expect when I’m in northwest and St. Honore fits into that expectation. Located on the corner of Thurman and 23^rd, the regular crowd that comes here wears Columbia and Lululemon and pays with credit cards. Am I being judgey here or observant?
Regardless of designer labels, the café is decorated with twinkling lights, sturdy wooden tables, and plenty of drool-​worthy decadence behind the glass. The walls are lined with gorgeous yeast leavened breads, and the air smells of sugar, butter and your own mediocrity. Scratch that last part, man I’m sounding cynical today. my bad.
Truly though, if I could’ve eaten everything that lay beyond that glass partition… I would have. Instead I settled for a pan au chocolat and a soy vanilla latte. The croissant was perfectly airy and light, not bread-​like at all, the layers so crisp and light it was like eating buttery air, the way a well made croissant should be. So many café’s think that croissants should be this heavy, thick battery dough, when the idea that should be achieved is light, layered and crispy mouth feel.
I saw a salad nicoise being taken to someone and I kind of wanted to trip the server… and steal the salad. Something is definitely wrong with me.
Next time your in NW Portland, try out the food at St. Honore, and take it all in.

Raised by a woman who hates to shop but insists on looking perfect at all times (and does), I’m gonna go out on a limb and say I know how to get things done.
Add to that living in Japan for seven years, and I will now step it up and say I have an Sh.D. in shopping.
So thank the goddess above for my wonderful set of skillz, otherwise I’m not quite sure how I would’ve been able to send a few treats over to an old grade-​skool mate of mine.
Really, it was no big deal; I just wanted a box of pretty junk food to be delivered on a weekday to say «Yo, ‘sup. Enjoy. Word.» Unfortunately, it seems no one (and I called EVERYONE) delivers in good ol’ P-​town.
I did find a very lovely bloke at Le Pigeon who suggested I click on
, but the site was super annoying. It does have some doughnut place you krazy kids all seem to love, but I find donuts, um, how shall we say… tacky? Low-​class? Oooh, ghetto! That’s it. And the other bits on the site are, like, pesto sannies and vegan salads. I’m sorry, but pesto gives you dragon breath and vegan salads don’t exactly scream Fun! to me. Finally I was like, «Oi, I just want to deliver some tasty cakes and maybe a couple of scrumptious croissants to a local business. Can no one help me out here?!»
Enter St. Honoré. I emailed and asked if someone would be so kind as to put a couple bits in a box and drop it off down the street — charge me whatever, bla, bla.
And, like magic, a little hunnie named Mina — with wings on her back and perfect grammar — emailed me right away to say she could absolutely do that. And how ’bout we add this to the box. And we’ll get right on this. And is immediate delivery okay. And is there anything else I can help you with…
And ohmygawd how wonderful it is to find magnificent, efficient people with a spring in their step and a wink in their eye. No, seriously. Brilliant with a capital «B»!
Soooooo a couple of hours later my friend emails to thank me for the treats and says he loves the Frenchy joint. Yeeeeeee!
You see. Mama can pull off anything if entails throwing money at the problem. (Although I was born and raised in Portland, I haven’t been back to pop my head in since…2005? So I have no idea what’s what in the Pacific NW these days. I mean really, Portland, if you would allow the fabulous Carl Greve jewelers to close up shop than I honestly have no idea what you’re capable of.)
In sum: St Honoré rawks. Do not pass go. Do not collect $ 200. And second, if you’re interested in starting a delivery company, call me. I’ll invest.
PS: An Sh.D. is a shopping doctorate, people, hellllllo.

Good but surprisingly not great pastries and baked goods. Very good pork sandwich my husband had, but the «Provence» mozzarella/​tomato panini was really quite awful, just a flattened salty melty mess and not in a good way. Hazelnut chocolate croissant tasted like it’d been sitting there far too long and the other goodies we tried were not much better than something you’d get in a grocery store bakery. It seems like it used to be better than this in the past :(
Service-​wise, they said didn’t have anyone on staff today to bring people their food like usual and it was almost impossible to hear them cal your names with a huge mess of people standing around waiting for their stuff. They were very nice at the counter but honestly, wouldn’t go out of our way to come here in the future when Frice on Williams is so much tastier and closer to home.

I have to say the reviews of this place were overhyped for me. I had a Palmier cookie, a Croque Madame and a pain au chocolat. It wasn’t bad, it just wasn’t that good.
The cookie was a little overdone and soggy at the same time. Brittle with tree sappy syrup in places. I ate it, don’t get me wrong, but I’m not lining up for more. Same with the chocolate croissant. It was just okay. I’ll probably give them another try when the seasons change and the menu has shifted a tic or two.
Also it wasn’t very efficient for the 30 minute lunch set. Go when you have time to enjoy.
I loved the little café ambience they had going on. Indoor/​outdoor seating. Tall ceilings, tiles. I really enjoyed the feel of the place.
Just wasn’t that impressed with my selections.

One thing about Portland most places you stand in line and order your food, this place is no different. Wait on yourself so be prepared. They will bring it to you!
The food is delicious! Very tasty, no additional seasoning needed. Everything so fresh. The bread and pastries looked so yummy I wanted to try them all. My macaroon was wonderful. I highly recommend going and they serve breakfast all day!

Nice pit-​stop on our Portland NW crawl. Very tasty savory sandwiches on house-​baked French breads. We also didn’t say no to the beer/​cider selection (they had Ninkasi in bottles and other local goodies).
The dude at the counter sounded hilariously stoned, which was mostly amusing. Very friendly though Portland! All good, duuuuuude.

I have been to St. Honoré quite a few times, and though a French pastry lover, I only recently tried the namesake pastry. It might be the most delicious pastry I’ve had. It is flaky, sweet, creamy, and in perfect balance.
Suffice to say, St. Honoré is the perfect place to stop for an authentic French lunch, top of the line pâtisseries, or to quick pick up the best French bread in Portland.

I love St. Honore. I really don’t have anything clever to say about it that hasn’t already been sung 100 times over. Every time I’m on Thurman for a hair appointment I get a bag full of mini raspberry croissants and eat half of them on the way home, blissing out on their sweet raspberry centers and flaky wrappings. The fact that my hair looks fabulous again also helps me forget about all the calories I’m surely consuming.
Sandwiches are simple, but somehow still rich and indulgent. The Croque Madame is a favorite with it’s perfectly poached egg nestled in Emmental cheese bechamel, black forest ham, dijon, and freshly baked brioche. The French Riviera sandwich is one of the more interesting ways I’ve seen a tuna sandwich layered, with all of the regular accouterments and the addition of mint and sliced, hard-​boiled egg.
The soups are always buttery in the best way and pair perfectly with any and all of the superb plethora of breads on display. You can sit at the bar top and watch them make the bread, which is entrancing and indulgent in it’s own right.
I do wish that the large croissants were as delightful as their mini counterparts. They always seem to be slightly overdone, though still good. If they made a mini version of the almond croissant I would surely gain about 900lbs. so it’s probably good that they don’t.
St. Honore, you are like a dirty french lover that I can’t quit and never want to.

Mais oui!
Yes. I’m French and leave in the neighborhood. I love walking down for my Pain au chocolat, croissant and petit café on a weekend morning. Reminds me of the corner bakery where I grew up. Also some very nice salads that I mostly enjoy on the sidewalk seating on a nice summer evening.