San Jose’s best-known destination for custardy, blistered pasteis de nata and fluffy filled malassadas is closing after seven years.
Pastelaria Adega, a Portuguese bakery at 30 E. Santa Clara St., #130, will serve its last sweets on Nov. 25. But locals can still get the pastries elsewhere. On Nov. 28, owners Carlos and Fernanda Carreira will begin selling Pastelaria Adega’s baked goods out of their Portuguese fine dining spot Adega, the first restaurant in San Jose to earn a Michelin star.
For the bakery, it’s a homecoming of sorts. The Carreiras first started Pastelaria Adega as a Saturday pop-up out of Adega, located in San Jose’s Little Portugal. Lines formed around the block for the pasteis de nata, the Carreiras recalled, so they opened the spin-off bakery in 2019…