I’ve been loving Nuvrei Patisserie & Café for several years now. I remember when they originally only had the downstairs space and going in you felt like you were making some secret kitchen deal. Then they opened up a small little patisserie and cafe upstairs that was bright with light and the smell of goodness while being super cozy – there were times I had to eat using the little counters they had on the outside hallway because there was no space in this teeny tiny adorable shop. Recently this year they opened up the MAC Bar, an additional little space specifically for ogling the beauty and putting together your fresh macaron boxes (and the upstairs Nuvrei Cafe space continues to be the devoted space for your warm beverage needs and to ogle/order the amazing baked goods).
In case you haven’t visited Nuvrei before, let me give you a little visual tour of their deliciousness. If you are thinking of bringing some wonderful treats as you travel for the holidays, or having some guests visit and are looking for a quick place to grab a bite to go and keep on (say then off to a trip to the Gorge area, or the Coast, or up to Mt Hood) I cannot recommend stopping and visiting Nuvrei enough.
Besides the various coffees and cappuccinos and lattes and Valrhona Mocha, they also have Valrhona Hot chocolate, chai, and Foxfire Teas as well.
I’ve written previously about their macarons, which you now can go straight downstairs to the Macaron Bar in order to get. There are seasonal flavors they change out, such as my latest visit they had chestnut and also a chai flavor.
In that same post, I also loved their Fried Egg Bagel Sandwich. In another breakfast and lunch sandwich focused post, I gushed about the cheddar jalapeno bagel with cream cheese, and their bagels which uses with their homemade pretzel dough to add extra flavor and chew. I also like how they make pretzel sandwiches, such as the Pretzel with chive cream cheese and smoked wild sockeye salmon.
You may think you are going to just take this to go to eat later, but maybe you should get 2 sandwiches – one for breakfast AND one for lunch. For instance, you can get the Salmon Bagel Sandwich with cucumber, dill, red onion, butter lettuce and choice of bagel and cream cheese for breakfast, or perhaps the Sausage Bagel sandwich with housemade sage sausage, fried egg, dijon butter, onion, brie and basil. And then for lunch, go with the Avocado Turkey or BLT.
Here’s a little bit more detail on that Avocado Turkey bagel sandwich… they have a large variety of bagels, varying from plain, onion, sesame, poppy seed, fleur de sel, everything, cheddar jalapeno, or asiago, but I personally prefer the cheddar jalapeno and everything myself. I mean look at the beauty of that cheddar jalapeno..
And maybe a cookie too. Seriously, look at how packed with chocolate and walnuts their Chewy Chocolate Walnut cookies are. You can also just take home a mix and bake it yourself at home to eat, unashamed, a half dozen all by yourself.
Or go a little lighter and just go with a croissant – plain buttery one is simple, but so light and buttery.
Or go for a flavored croissant, such as chocolate, or sesame, or sesame thyme, or almond, or chocolate almond, or walnut, or chocolate walnut, or berry croissant or seasonal fruit croissant… and save the sandwich for lunch. Let me tell you, they know what they are doing with their croissants.
Or go with a glistening cinnamon danish. Or scone (like these lemon poppy seed scones or blueberry blackberry scones). Nuvrei pastries are amazing, all of them.
Or pretzel or bacon cheddar biscuit. Or their Granola, made with Pepitas, coconut flakes, dried wild blueberries, rolled oats, Oregon honey, thin sliced almonds & a dash of cardamon, all lightly toasted (and you can get it with their yogurt and seasonal fresh fruit too).
You can see the problem is I just want to eat everything in the display, and you will also have a hugely difficult time choosing just one. Which is why I say, get two!
Or, bring them home for a holiday breakfast treat for your family – you get 10% off on a box of 12 or more pastries (excluding macarons). I barely need the excuse of a family in order to get a bunch of bagels and biscuits and scones.
Nuvrei is located at 404 NW 10th Avenue – the patisserie and cafe where you can get the various pastries and coffee is up the stairs when you first walk in, while the macaron bar aka MAC Bar is down the stairs. They are open 7am – 5pm daily except Sunday where they open at 8am.
Have you ever been to Nuvrei? What did you like- macarons? Pastries? Both?
Do you have guests visiting you this holiday season that you want to spoil by upgrading their continental breakfast basket with some of these pastries? I don’t have guests and I’m still thinking of putting that kind of basket together just for myself…
