Stumble across Saint Bread and you might think that you’ve been zapped via enchanted portal to a rustic boathouse with stained glass windows in a remote waterfront village. Only instead of buoys and barnacles, this little shed is filled with sandwiches and pastries ideal for a lazy Saturday breakfast—and you’re really just on the University District side of Portage Bay. You’ll find things like our favorite avocado toast in town, made better than the rest by a heavy sprinkling of za’atar, pools of grassy olive oil, and scientifically-precise levels of fresh lemon and salt. There’s a riff on Norwegian-style school buns filled with raspberry jam and creamy custard, too. But what really has us worshipping Saint Bread is their breakfast sandwich on a fluffy Japanese melonpan that’s topped with a thin layer of cookie dough before baking. Glory be to this creation, stuffed with jammy-but-not-messy fried eggs and sticky american cheese that fuses to the bacon grease and rogue granulated sugar on your fingertips. Embrace the sweet-and-salty McGriddle energy. If you're hoping to come here for a late brunch, you'll be met with a mostly-empty pastry case containing only chocolate chunk cookies if you show up after 11am (there are worse fates). But that's precisely the time they start serving their excellent lunchtime-only smashburger, so really, everyone wins here at all hours of the day. Said burger has the kind of frizzled meat crust that Louis Camille Maillard himself would have endorsed, along with a slightly spicy special sauce that flows flawlessly with melted cheese, as well as a great crunch from pickles meeting the toasted edges of a sweet Hawaiian bun.