Seastar Bakery

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Seastar Bakery
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Seastar Bakery
Restaurant information
ClosedAugust 14, 2022 (2022-08-14)
Owner(s)
  • Katia Bezerra-Clark
  • Will Fain
  • Annie Moss
Street address1603 Northeast Killingsworth Street
City Portland
County Multnomah
State Oregon
Postal/ZIP Code97211
CountryUnited States
Coordinates 45°33′46″N122°38′56″W / 45.5629°N 122.6489°W / 45.5629; -122.6489
Website seastarbakery.com/index.html

Seastar Bakery was a bakery in Portland, Oregon, United States. Annie Moss and Katia Bezerra-Clark owned and operated the business, which shared a space with Handsome Pizza in northeast Portland's Vernon neighborhood starting in 2015. Seastar served breads, cookies, pastries, and toast, among other baked goods. Despite garnering a positive reception and being deemed one of the city's best bakeries by Eater Portland and Portland Monthly , Seastar closed in August 2022.

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Description

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Exterior sign, 2022

Seastar Bakery shared a space with Handsome Pizza in the One Stop Building in northeast Portland's Vernon neighborhood. [1] The businesses used a custom wood-fired oven built by Hot Rock Masonry of Eastsound, Washington. [2] [3]

Seastar's menu included breads (challah, rosemary cornbread, [4] rye, sourdough), cookies, English muffins, [5] pastries, buckwheat scones, and toast. [6] Toast toppings included fruit, coconut-honey butter, and honey-nut butter, as well as coppa, pickles, and fried egg. [7]

In 2019, Matthew Korfhage of Willamette Week wrote, "Starting in the morning, Seastar Bakery makes pizza-dough-muffin breakfast sandwiches, plus obscure-grain pastries and fancy toasts so fancy they almost don't seem like toast anymore—using spelt and cornbread and rye and something called kamut-sesame, made with grain first discovered in the tombs of the Pharaohs." [8]

According to Eater Portland , Seastar "uses Pacific Northwestern flours and Oregon produce in its flavorful breads, chewy cookies, and ultra-flaky cinnamon rolls, but what really sets Seastar apart is its use of savory herbs and spices in its baked goods — we're talking sage in a glaze on a molasses cookie, or turmeric in a moist muffin." [9]

Seastar used Camas Country Mill flour for croissants. [10] On weekends, Seastar served chai lattes, as of 2021. [11] The drink menu also included coffee, hot chocolate, and tea. [4]

History

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Interior display case, 2022

Katia Bezerra-Clark and Annie Moss, who were friends and colleagues at Tabor Bread, [12] owned and operated Seastar with Will Fain of Handsome Pizza starting in 2015. [1] [13] [14] Fain had previously operated Handsome Pizza at the North Station food cart pod from 2011 to January 2015. Property development of the site caused him to relocate a few blocks east. [15]

In January 2017, Seastar and twenty other female-owned businesses collaborated on cookie boxes, raising funds for Planned Parenthood ahead of Donald Trump's inauguration. [16]

In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Seastar stocked baking ingredients such as eggs, flour, and yeast. [5] The bakery reportedly sold 600 pounds of Camas Country Mill flour in two days in April 2020. [17] Seastar was open for take-out and outdoor dining during the pandemic, but owners did not allow indoor dining until all staff were vaccinated. [18] Face masks were still required, as of April 2022. [19]

In 2022, owners announced plans to close on August 14. [20] [21] [22] The pizzeria No Saint moved into the space which had housed both Seastar and Handsome Pizza. [23] [24]

Reception

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Cookie from Seastar Bakery

In 2017, Samantha Bakall included the fancy toast Little Beirut in The Oregonian 's "cheap eats" list of "99 delicious dishes for $10 and under". [25] Michelle Lopez included the Patsy's Biscuit in Eater Portland's 2018 list of "15 Portland biscuits that would make any Southerner proud". [26] The website's Nick Townsend included Seastar a 2021 list of "11 places to find charming chai lattes in Portland". He described the chai latte as a "hidden gem on the menu" that is "distinctly peppery and restrained in its sweetness". [11] Lopez and Brooke Jackson-Glidden included Seastar in a 2022 list of "outstanding bakeries in Portland and beyond". [9]

Portland Monthly included Seastar in a 2022 "opinionated guide" to the city's best bakeries. Katherine Chew Hamilton wrote, "These grain-centric baked goods are part free-spirited Portland and part French finesse, united by a love for butter." [27] She, Matthew Trueherz, and Karen Brooks also said, "Restaurant industry burnout is a real thing... We'll remember [Seastar Bakery and Handsome Pizza] for pastries including the turmeric Zena cakes, cinnamon rolls, and apricot-cardamom tarts, while pizza toppings ranged from ricotta to za’atar, plus pay-what-you-can cheese pies." [13]

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