Excelsior Coffee serves espresso drinks, bags of beans to go, and ube pastries.

Donut Savant in East Oakland specializes in excellent mini donuts and "cron'ts" (donut-croissant hybrids).

Mise En Place Kitchen in Downtown Berkeley is a cafe serving soups, salads, sandwiches, and incredible tartines.

Bicycle Pies is an at-home pop-up serving excellent sweet and savory hand pies.

Astranda Bakery is a pop-up serving fluffy, soft coffee cinnamon rolls out of SF and Oakland.

Basuku Cheesecakes makes incredibly creamy, melt-in-your-mouth Basque cheesecakes.

The pie pop-up is churning out incredible pies in SF and the East Bay.

Batter Bakery in Polk Gulch makes some of the best cookies in the whole city.

Red Bay Coffee is a community-minded coffee shop (try the charcoal latte) and roastery based in Fruitvale.

Reem’s California is a casual Arab bakery in Fruitvale serving pastries, wraps, and an incredible shakshuka on weekends.

Eats in the Richmond is always packed for breakfast on weekends, but the chicken and waffles are worth the wait.

Kate’s Kitchen in the Lower Haight is a breakfast spot with oddly-named dishes like the Flanched Flarney Garney.

The laid-back coffee shop in the Outer Sunset serves vanilla lattes made to look like birthday cakes and rainbows.

Snowbird is an Inner Sunset coffee shop serving excellent espresso drinks in a small, quiet space.

Bakesale Betty in Temescal makes the best fried chicken sandwich in Oakland, if not the world.

Cafe St. Jorge is a great coffee shop for getting work done in Bernal Heights.