We’re entering our second summer season at little t, and it’s time to update our menus!

Berries feature prominently this year. Sweet Hood strawberries are hanging around in the form of our housemade strawberry freezer jam (available with our “Continental”…a short skinny baguette with jam and european-style creamery butter). And we’re currently bringing in the first crop of blueberries and raspberries. Marionberries will soon follow. Try some with our own almond granola, or in one of our scones, muffins, fresh pastry cream tarts, or turnovers…while they last!

Fresh summer produce is also making its way onto our sandwiches and salads…our favorite farm, Gathering Together, brings us its amazing mix of tender lettuces, as well as tomatoes, cucumbers, basil, and more as the season progresses. Try one of our tomato tarts in italian puff pastry, available with a side salad of GTF greens, for lunch.

Also here or coming soon: cherries, apricots & peaches….yum!

Our most popular sandwich is back on the menu here at little t, now that tomato season is finally here. Our version of the classic BLT includes local tomatoes and greens from Gathering Together Farm, several strips of thick crispy bacon and our own housemade aioli (with just a hint of garlic). What really makes this sandwich special is the bread…two thick slabs of our sally lunn bread, a tender, rich, cakelike bread that’s buttery and just a little sweet.

BLT is here to stay as long as fresh tomatoes are available. Come try one!

Well, sorry for not updating the website more often…business has really picked up here at little t and we’ve been spending most of our time baking! In any case, we have some new menu items to announce:

Our new springtime sandwiches, featuring

Green Olive Tapenade and Cypress Grove Fromage Blanc (a fresh goat cheese) with fresh local radishes and dressed farm greens on our slab

Sacred Sea Albacore Tuna Salad, dill pickle and farm greens on a whole wheat croissant

As well as our favorites: our Italian grinder/sub, roasted veggies and romesco on slab, and turkey and gina marie cream cheese with our special cilantro pesto on 7 grain carrot.

We also have the first rhubarb of the season in our rhubarb yogurt muffins and our housemade puff pastry turnovers!

Check out the menus section for an updated list of what we’re making now.

Thanks! t

The Oregonian’s Grant Butler chose us as his favorite bakery of the year! Lots of other fun and interesting picks and tidbits in the article, too. Read it here.

Happy New Year from everyone at Little T!

Thanksgiving is only two weeks away! Don’t forget to order your pumpkin pie, rolls, and other goodies from little t by Monday the 24th. We’ve got printed Thanksgiving menus here in the shop. Yum.

We’re opening up the bakery this holiday season for catered private parties. We’ve put together a nice menu of simple, delicious finger foods, sweets, plus beer and wine that will make for great holiday gatherings at reasonable prices. Please call (503.238.3458) or email (info@littletbaker.com) for details or to make a reservation. The space is available 7 nights a week after 6PM. Collect your friends, family, co-workers at little t to celebrate the holidays.

Happy Holidays! t

The cold, wet weather has inspired us to come up with some special hot drinks.  We love eggnog, but not so much the stuff you get in a carton.  So we made our own.  It’s delicious in a latte or hot chocolate.  We also created a spiced chocolate for mochas and hot chocolate.  With a pinch of chili pepper, it’s just the thing to ward off the cold weather blues.  Come in for a taste!

For those of you already making your to-do lists for thanksgiving…  Our thanksgiving menu is set.  We’ll be offering soft and hard rolls (sold individually), the best pumpkin pie ever, pecan block (a fabulously rich pecan bar cookie–better than pecan pie!), our legendary chocolate tart, and our delicious pear crumb cake.  We’re taking orders now until Monday, Nov. 24.

Please note that we’ll be open regular hours thanksgiving eve (7-5), and closed thanksgiving day (even bakers need a holiday!).

cheers.t

With the coming of fall, we are getting in great stuff like delicious pears and crisp pippin apples, even blackberries and grapes.  Look for apple coffee cake, pear bread, blackberry yogurt muffins, heirloom apple turnovers, and late-season tomato tarts.  One of our fall favorites–sciacciata con uva (sweet grape flatbread)–will be available the next couple weeks.  Souper Friday is spilling over into the rest of the week, it seems, as we just can’t seem to stay away from the soup pot.  Enjoy.

We’re cookin’ up soup on Fridays!  Starting today with Gazpacho.  As the weather cools we’ll be serving up some cool-weather classics — potato-leek, white bean with bacon, cream of tomato…  And we’ll have soup every day once fall kicks in.  All our soups are house-made, of course, with local organic produce and other top-notch ingredients.  Come in for a cup!

Yes, we’ll be open on Labor Day, Monday Sept.1!
Holiday hours:  8AM - 2PM

Enjoy the holiday.
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We are so excited to announce our new laminated pastries — Croissant, Chocolate Croissant, and Tomato Tarts. They are delicious! We are using awesome, locally made butter, which is a big part of the reason these pastries are so darn good. The other reason is that we take the time to make them the old-fashioned way, a lengthy process of creating dozens of layers of dough and butter. It’s a lot of work but well worth it. We’re playing with some other ideas… fruit tarts, etc., and expect to have more new items available in the next week or so.

Little T owner & baker Tim Healea earned a silver medal at the Coupe du Monde de la Boulangerie (World Cup of Baking) in 2002 for his viennoiserie skills (laminated doughs), competing against the best in the world… we’re putting his skills to good use!

We are making Croissants fresh every day, of course, and they’re normally ready around 8:30 or 9 in the morning for optimum freshness… so please don’t be upset if they’re not yet out of the oven at the crack of dawn. Tomato Tarts are made with local organic tomatoes and herbs, and are available most days at lunchtime.