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Your A-List: Best Bakery
If you have a taste for carbs and sugars, you may want to wear a bib into Russell’s Bakery, with 30 percent of the vote, winner of this week’s poll, because they place is a veritable temple to the pleasures of empty calories.
One look at the display case filled with muffins, hand-decorated cookies, cake (chocolate espresso, anyone?), danishes and brownies (try the Oreo brownie), will send your head spinning and heart racing.
Beyond the baked sugary goodness, the somewhat non-descript but pleasant shop near the intersection of Balcones Drive and Hancock Road also sells delicious, fresh sandwiches and homemade soups. I tried half a chicken salad sandwich with a cup of tomato bisque today (along with said Oreo brownie), and will definitely make a return trip to the bakery that started in the Bartyon Skyway neighborhood over a dozen years ago.
Russell’s Bakery
3339 Hancock Dr. [map]
Hours
Monday-Thursday: 6:30 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Friday: 6:30 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Saturday: 7 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Sunday: 7:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Others receiving votes
- Upper Crust, 22 percent
- Sweetish Hill, 14 percent
- Tiff’s Treats, 8 percent
- Texas French Bread, 6 percent
- Hey Cupcake!, 5 percent
- La Mexicana, 4 percent
- Lucy’s Cakes, 3 percent
- Quack’s, 2 percent
- Phoenicia, 1 percent
- Mi Victoria, 1 percent
- Hyde Park, 1 percent
- Mr. Natural, 1 percent
- ATX Vegan Bakery, < 1 percent
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By Sam
February 8, 2009 10:09 PM | Link to this
I know it may not be as fashionable as some of the others, but Lux Bakery/Cafe in SW Austin is my personal fav. Too bad it didn’t make the list.