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As an Italian who is perfectly content eating pastries for breakfast and not giant egg and bacon type meals, let's talk good pastry shops. 

Sweetish Hill - damn those prices suck but I really like the new S. 1st Street location 

Sour Duck - so good they supply pastries all over town

Central Market - cheap and solid

I'm going to start with those three but I'm also here to bemoan the loss of Patika.

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This topic comes up on the Austin food subreddit on the regular and I'll touch on your suggestions and make a few of my own. Plus I just got back from Paris and like a true Parisian, consider myself an expert and everyone else is wrong.    

Sweetish Hill--I'm lame and have only been once since the remodel and don't recall it being exceptional in any way besides the how hot the lady customers were

Sour Duck--love them, although like @HenryJames I'm constantly confused how you can call yourself a bakery but run out of pastries by 10 am.  Kouign Amann is the standout.  

Central Market--very inconsistent.  I've had to return pastries because there was butter chunks (ineffectively creamed) and a lot of times they look better than they taste, particularly out of the cake case.  Not a pastry but I do appreciate they offer a $2 baguette when Whole Foods is only stocking $5 versions from easy tiger.  

Upper Crust--love the morning buns but their parking lot has more helpless drivers than the Arboretum Trader Joes and being closed on Sundays is no bueno.  

Quacks--always solid, but never better than that.  Really their cakes are better than their pastries.  Most of their staff is, errrrr....baked.  

Russells--they don't get enough love, I like them better than Quacks

Epicerie--refuse to go out of pique at the subredditors that claim they have better pastries than in New Orleans.  

Julie Myrtille--overrated and expensive, I don't know how you can charge $6 for a chocolate croissant that's 2 euros in Paris.  I guess great for them if they can get it, but it feels like a Disneyland version of a patisserie designed to remove money from indiscriminate Gen Z.    

Heaven's Bistro--for my money the most under-sung hole in the wall bakery in Austin, and the best almond croissant.  

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