{"id":51499,"date":"2025-11-13T17:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T17:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/51499\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T17:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T17:38:09","slug":"bakers-bench-review-a-victor-heights-bakery-cracks-the-code-on-vegan-croissants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/51499\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakers Bench Review: A Victor Heights Bakery Cracks the Code on Vegan Croissants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Follow the scent of freshly baked pastries through Victor Heights\u2019 charming Alpine Courtyard to find Bakers Bench<\/a>, an all-vegan viennoiserie from Jennifer Yee<\/a>. The Culinary Institute of America-trained baker began experimenting with plant-based butter alternatives while working at Echo Park\u2019s Konbi before opening Bakers Bench as a Chinatown kiosk in 2021. The bakery has settled into its new home (literally a former house) with a menu of fruit-filled Danishes, yuzu poppyseed scones, chocolate chip cookies, and some of Los Angeles\u2019s best croissants<\/a>. A single bite of any of Yee\u2019s pastries will change the minds of even the staunchest vegan butter naysayers.<\/p>\n

Picking up a box of pastries to take to a picnic at the neighboring Los Angeles State Historic Park, or for a casual daytime croissant and coffee.<\/p>\n

Set in Victor Heights\u2019 restaurant hub, Alpine Courtyard, Bakers Bench is surrounded by banchan shop Perilla, coffee shop Heavy Water, burger joint Cassell\u2019s, and, in the evening, Baby Bistro. Build-your-own meal with dishes from each spot, including cream-topped cold brew, gimbap, a side of fries, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow the scent of freshly baked pastries through Victor Heights\u2019 charming Alpine Courtyard to find Bakers Bench, an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28829,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-51499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-dining-reports","9":"tag-la","10":"tag-la-headlines","11":"tag-la-news","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","14":"tag-los-angeles-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}