Best Bread in Chiang Mai (3 Winners; 1 Loser; 1 Wild Card)

[mickmac]

Will throw my opinion into the arena, for what they are worth. 

 

L'OPERA for the large brown loaf 180 baht , (but large enough to cut in half and stick one half in the freezer). 

The white bread is good too. The best patisserie in town, since the Devra Dervri shut down. They also do a small sour dough bread as well that is very good. L'Opera also produces a Brioche loaf but only on a Sunday.

 

The Chouqette French sticks: I find the crusts a bit tough, and before you ask Yes, I still have most of my own teeth intact. I find their Patisserie quite good. The coffee is also good. I have been in the shop when some very large loaves have been baked, and the bread is purchased by weight rather than per item. 

 

French stick, MAKRO, I know, one would not believe it but its true imho. A French lad put me onto it and I must say, he was right.  

 

Back to Sausage King.... I find there is something missing from their bread, maybe needs a bit more salt. 

 

I do often purchase from Nana Bakery, as there are now 3 in fairly close proximity to my house in the Sansai region. There are sliced Brown and white loaves that are handy.  I also buy the unsliced white along with the Bread that has rosemary through it. This is very nice when toasted. They also occasionally produce a sultana loaf which ig reat toasted and buttered. 

 

Another Baked goods shop that comes to mind is to be found on the bottom floor in Central Festival shopping centre, Saint Etoile, almost next door to TOPS supermarket. They do a current bread loaf that will kick start the sugar spike, also various breads, that they will slice for you if you so desire. They also make very good bread buns/rolls, wholemeal, multigrain etc. This is part of the Yamigazi (?) outfit, and has a sister shop at Central airport plaza.  

 

My Preference would be to visit L'Opera for bread/patisserie purchases, but as is an hour round trip then it can run expensive, so I defer to Nana bakery at the moment. 

 

I hope this helps

 

  

[Old Curmudgeon]

6 hours ago, mickmac said:

Will throw my opinion into the arena, for what they are worth. ... I hope this helps

 

Thank you, @mickmac.

I appreciate your thoughtful comments and suggestions here.

 

Good to know about L'OPERA for bread and pastries.

That is new to me, but also far away.

 

Agree with you about good quality bread at Saint Etoile.

It is Japanese style dough -- very soft, airy, and slightly sweet.

But for for "franchise" bakery, the quality is quite good.

 

Interesting about French stick, MAKRO.

I never would have imagined.

 

You mentioned Nana Bakery.

I ordered some pastries today (blueberry muffins, chicken pie, apple pie).

Taste okay, but I don't find any reason to get excited.

I wanted to order Nana bread, but bread not offered for delivery on LineMan.

Not today anyway.

Maybe just because of holiday this week ... I don't know.

 

You also mentioned something lacking about Sausage King's bread.

I agree with you ... does need a bit more salt.

And I'm wondering if S.K. gets that bread from an outside bakery.

 

If you have any other good ideas, I hope you'll post.

 

 

 

 

[mickmac]

As a further update to the bread situation:-

I mentioned the TOPS supermarket on the bottom floor in Central Festival, they do have a good selection of diferent breads, including the large German dark bread fofr 290 baht, (these can be easily cut into quarters and frozen till needed, without messing with the taste. So worth popping in there to have a change from goods at Saint Etienne. 

 

Sausage Rolls.  I do like a decent sausage roll and up until recently I had not seen any on sale, other than the frankfurter sausage wrapped in a sheet of Puff Pastry.  I have recently found some decent sausage rolls available in the freezer section at the "Sloans" dedicated shop. It used to be the Artisans Butcher shop 

 

DK Park, Mahidol Rd, Changklan, Mueang Chiang Mai District, Chiang Mai 50100

Wednesday-Sunday :9:30 am- 9:00 pm

 

Here is their website too.  https://sloanes.co.th/

I know this is not a bread shop, but I felt they were worth a mention. The frozen sausage rolls need to be left out to defrost, then an egg wash coating the pastry. I then put them in my Air Fryer, at 180 deg. for 20 minutes, turning them over about 10-15 minues in. The cost is 180 baht for 2 large ones.   I hope you enjoy.

 

[Old Curmudgeon]

4 hours ago, mickmac said:

Sausage Rolls.  I do like a decent sausage roll

 

Those sausage rolls from Sloan's are worth mentioning on any topic !!

The pastry (bread) is light texture, tasty and just-right crispy.

My favorite, too.

Thank you @mickmac for thinking to add it on this threadd.

 

[Cameroni]

Great thread! I second mickmac's post: 

 

The best bread in CM is to be had at L'IOpera. All their bread is outstanding and better than most bakeries in France or Germany, certainly better than Choquette, who also have a decent baguette but not quite up there with L'Opera standards. Normally I freeze all bread and then microwave and put it in a conventional oven. However, L'Opera baguette is the only bread that is so good that you just have to defrost it. Fresh, it's out of this world good.

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I also agree that the Makro french stick is decent.

 

However, the second best bakery is indeed St.Etoile.

 

One thing we do not have is a great bagel place, as far as I know. If anyone knows where to get quality bagels, let me know.