At the very literally named Baker and Barista, you will be served by a baker and a barista, who are both very good at their jobs. The coffee here is great. And the baked goods are excellent too. Options rotate often, but if you see the sourdough cinnamon roll, point to it like you just found Waldo on a particularly difficult page. Come early for sweet pastries like apple galette, or closer to noon when the sourdough sandwiches and Roman-style pizza occupy the counter.

It sounds like a spot where high schoolers hang out in the backseats of their cars, but this parking lot in Coconut Grove is home to a tiny trailer filled with pastries as good as anything you’ll find in an actual bakery. Ophelia has breakfast sandwiches on housemade english muffins, olive oil cakes topped with cream and blueberries, and a coffee cinnamon roll that’s in the running for the city’s best. The sweet pastries aren’t overly sweet, and the savory options aren’t too heavy.

Zak The Baker is a kosher bakery, and one of those places that we write about so much it’s getting hard to find new things to say about this Wynwood classic. So just trust us when we say that everything here is amazing. The babka, various sandwiches, bagels, cookies—it’s all worth accidentally driving through a music video while looking for parking in Wynwood. Crowds can be intense during tourist season, but we've never had to wait much longer than 30 minutes for a table.

If you have to pick between the Caracas Doral and MiMo location, go with MiMo. Because this Caracas outpost feels more like a proper cafe, with an expanded menu, sleek dining room, and the same great cachitos. The new stuff on Caracas MiMo's menu includes sandwiches like an excellent BEC on a sweet potato bun, a crispy broccoli and cheese sandwich, jambon beurre, and mushroom toast. It works well for any and all laidback breakfasts, brunches, or lunch plans.

There’s a wooden window just off Coral Way where people line up every day for sourdough bread. That’s all they have here—endless rows of excellent flour-dusted loaves they hand off to customers like some sort of illicit bread deal. Just ring the bell, and a man pops out to ask what you want and how thick you want it sliced. Get the tangy, springy country bread. They also have fun flavors like cacio e pepe, and garlic and tomato bread. The flavors change constantly.

Casa Bake is the kind of bakery you’d find on a European street by following the irresistible scent of freshly baked bread. It’s takeout only, but you can hang out, sip a latte, and watch the sourdough-scoring and dough-rolling that takes place on a massive wooden table. The South Miami-ish spot has one of the most affordable and delicious plain croissants in town. But their talents go beyond the croissant. They make brioche, and milk bread.

This former pandemic pop-up made the transition to a small shop in Little River, but one thing hasn’t changed: they’re still making some of the most delicious baked goods in Miami. Just know that Oori doesn't do walk-ins—you have to order a couple days in advance online for pick-up. But it's worth the effort. Options range from sweet to savory. The black sesame cinnamon rolls and phenomenal black sesame shortbread cookies are great choices if you’re in a dessert mood.

If you are in dire need of dessert—and a lot of it—then go to Cindy Lou's. The Little River dessert shop is known for its huge and wonderful cookies. We like them a lot—especially the one with Snickers and potato chips. But some of the best things here aren't cookies. The rotating selection of pies are excellent and the fudgy brownie has a crispy top layer of Rice Krispies. There are a couple seats in the small storefront, but this is mostly a to-go operation.

Of all the Haitian bakeries in Miami, this place stands out for its amazing Haitian-style bread and savory pate. They seem to constantly have fresh loaves of dense, rich Haitian bread coming out of the oven, and it’s hard to not tear into the warm loaf while walking back to your car. Their beef pates, however, are the real draw. The thin puff pastry is so fragile that it comes apart in delicate shards as soon as you go in for a bite.

Flour & Weirdoughs is an excellent bakery home to interesting creations, like a brisket croissant and a cinnamon roll big enough to use as a flotation device. The rest of the bakery is full of more pleasant surprises, like guava and cheese babka and a great pan con lechón. This place is definitely an essential stop to pick up picnic supplies before your next beach day. But if you miss them during the day, know that they also operate a lovely wine bar next door with some of Miami's best pizza.

Four is a cafe and wine bar that will look awfully familiar to former regulars of Paradis, the cafe and wine bar that used to occupy the same space. The concept hasn’t changed much either. Four is more of a wine bar at night, but on weekend mornings, it’s a bakery and coffee shop serving pastries, a couple of sandwiches, and coffee. You can come with a laptop (or a book) and work in peace alongside a matcha latte, tahini babka, or a turkey and pear sandwich served on a flawless baguette.

True Loaf is a South Beach bakery that’s a reliable place for some great pastries, including one of the best almond croissants in town. They also sell sandwiches, which are good, but we come here for their sweet pastries. There’s that massive and delicious almond croissant, but also great fruit tarts as well as a dulce de leche monkey bread. This place can get crowded on the weekends, and there’s not much seating, but there’s also a lovely little park with picnic benches just a block away.

Piononos is a Key Biscayne bakery where there’s almost always a line out the door. And, as far as we can tell, that line is mostly because this place makes a pavlova the way Prince ripped a guitar solo: flawlessly. If you come here and don’t leave with at least one slice of that pavlova, you have erred. It’s made from thinly sliced strawberries, dulce de leche, whipped cream, and a walnut meringue that melts in your mouth. So order one, please.

Majestic specializes in Portuguese baked goods. But this casual spot is also a Portuguese-by-way-of-Venezuela bakery, so you can also find great Venezuelan things, like some of Miami’s best cachitos. But there is one thing you absolutely get at this Coral Way bakery: the pastel de nata. Majestic Portuguese Bakehouse does an excellent job with the famous pastry. It’s creamy and flaky, with little charred spots along the top. You’ll probably want to get at least two.

Breadman is one of the best Cuban bakeries in Miami, and that’s saying something considering how many Cuban bakeries there are in Miami. They have locations in Hialeah and Westchester, and they make excellent versions of classics like croquetas, pastelitos, and Cuban bread. They also invented the croqueta cake, which, depending on your personal preferences, is either a brilliant or terrifying idea. We've never had one, but we also wouldn’t be mad if someone got it for our birthday.

This takeout spot has some really pretty cakes, decorated with all sorts of colorful sprinkles and icing. But if you're just getting a few things to eat at home, focus on the cookies, pastries, and pies. They make cream puffs the size of water balloons, really good cookies big enough to share with someone, and also one of our favorite key lime pie slices in town, which comes with a towering layer of meringue that’s bigger than the pie itself.

Pates Plus is a Haitian takeout bakery in North Miami that makes some very good pates filled with chicken, beef, or herring. The pates are really satisfying and incredibly flaky (so beware of crumbs if you’re eating one on your way to work). But the other can’t-miss specialty here is langue de boeuf—a thin, crunchy pastry covered in enough sugar to piss off an uptight dentist. Definitely leave with a big rectangle of that. It’s crunchy outside, airy inside, and just sweet enough.

La Parisienne is a French bakery in a big warehouse in North Miami. It’s a pretty neat space, especially if you enjoy watching professional bakers in action. The narrow dining room has big windows on both sides that give a great view of the bakers kneading, scoring, and rolling. The best part, though, is that you get to eat the result of all that kneading, scoring, and rolling, which is some really great French bread. Stop by and pick up a baguette to-go, or come for a quiet lunch.

If you are in Coral Gables and in the mood for bread in any form, get in the car and drive to Madruga Bakery. There isn’t necessarily a specialty here. It’s one of those places that just does everything deliciously, and you should leave with at least three things you didn’t plan on ordering. Those things could include a guava and cheese danish, ham and cheese croissant, or a couple of onion poppy seed rolls.