Rhode Island mornings move fast, and so do the cream-filled pastries that locals guard like secrets. If you want the good stuff, you have to know where to go and when to get there.
This list maps out the bakeries where trays empty before the clock even thinks about lunch. Come early, bring cash or an appetite, and prepare to leave with a box you will not want to share.
Pastiche Fine Desserts – Providence, Rhode Island
You will smell butter and espresso before you see the glass cases at Pastiche. The pastry cream here is silky, never cloying, tucked into éclairs with glossy chocolate and fruit tarts that sparkle like jewelry.
Grab a cappuccino and post up by the window while the neighborhood wakes…