Food & Drink · , Seattle
Chef-owner Papa Seck — a Senegalese-born pastry chef with 25 years of classical French training — opened Touba Bakery in Everett as a tribute to his homeland's holy city of Touba, crafting an extraordinary range of authentic French pastries including ham and cheese croissants, pain au chocolat, flaky baguettes, brioche, meringue lemon tarts, and palmier pastries seven days a week.