St. Honoré Boulangerie

By WW Contributor

501 SW Broadway, 503-954-3049; 2335 NW Thurman St., 503-445-4342; 3333 SE Division St., 971-279-4433; 315 1st St., Suite 103, Lake Oswego. sainthonorebakery.com.

If you ask Parisian expats where they buy baguettes, it's from this local chain of French bakeries that Portland is lucky to call its own. Founder and career boulanger extraordinaire Dominique Geulin helped open Le Panier French bakery in Old Town in the '80s before returning to France and garnering international acclaim. Then, in 2003, he moved back to Portland, opened the Thurman Street location, and the rest is buttery, crunchy history. $.

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