Pinkerton’s Bakery (Kingston) in an iconic 1920s art deco gas station is home to the fantastic bread and pastries by James Beard Award-winning Angela Pinkerton, a former executive pastry chef of Eleven Madison Park. We love it enough to make a pilgrimage.

INTEL: Saud Khan, a 518 local + content creator known as Chaiguy on Tiktok, opened two Pakistani chai + coffeehouses in NYC after closing Alif Cafe in Glens Falls to move downstate. Now, he’s back with Alif Cafe 2.0. which soft-opened this week. We have the early intel.

From the NeoVista Hospitality team comes the latest downtown Albany opening with their stylishly-designed all-day Bakery 66.

From West Coast start ups to Saratoga’s Bakery Suzanne, Wilson Keenan makes the dough.

🫒INTEL — Station Six is open in the former Engine 6 fire house at the corner of Swan + Jefferson in downtown Albany, N.Y. We chat with owner, Mexican designer Jordan Cambron, about his cafe-bakery, cold brew + cans to go.

Chef Nicole Bassis on her 30-year old Finnish sourdough starter, Finnish design + running bakery-cafe Cafe Mutsi on her own.

Cheesecake Machismo’s Lynn Beaumont + Bam Lynch talk about 23 years of cheesecake innovation, tattoos, global community + being an Albany icon.

Little Goat (Rhinebeck) serves up polished farmhouse and community appeal with an all-day bakery, Mediterranean-inspired menu + the martini service of our dreams.