Win Son Bakery

Scallion pancakes do the work of bread

The signature at Win Son Bakery is a bacon, egg and cheese built on a scallion pancake, with raclette standing in for the usual slice. It tells you what the place is: a Taiwanese-American bakery and café that runs familiar counter food through a different set of references. The savoury list carries on from there with a milk bun BEC, the Zhu Jiao pork knuckle sandwich, a hambao burger, a Big Chicken Box and a burger built on doufu ru and milk bread.

The case keeps the same range. A chewy mochi donut and a millet mochi donut sit beside a buttery pine nut cookie and an egg custard tart, so the sweet side is neither a French pastry counter nor a standard American display. The bakery opened on 3 September 2019 as the all-day spinoff of the Win Son restaurant that founders Trigg Brown and Josh Ku had started in 2016, and it sits directly across the street from it. It ranks 44th on Opinionated About Dining's 2026 Cheap Eats list for North America, after appearing on the 2025 edition.

A Brooklyn bakery with daytime-café energy

The room runs on counter service rather than a dining room. Walk up, order in a few words and leave with a meal, which makes it the more casual sibling to the restaurant opposite. Through the day the space is bright and open, with people settled in over laptops, so it works as a neighbourhood café as much as a bakery. At night the mood turns mellow, and the all-day format stretches to breakfast, lunch and dinner with spirits, wine and beer.

The operation reaches past walk-in pastry too. There is takeout and delivery, plus catering and cakes, and the Win Son Bakery name has since extended to an East Village branch in Manhattan. Later product development pushed sideways again: soft-serve froyo pints arrived in 2022, and gelato has run through black sesame, raspberry crunch and a Lunar New Year swirl of red bean, pistachio and mandarin orange.

Order the BEC first, then something with chew

Begin with the scallion pancake bacon, egg and cheese, because it captures the main move: café food filtered through Taiwanese, American and French habits at once. Raclette does the melting there, while milk bread and doufu ru shape the burger side.

If the order stays savoury, the Zhu Jiao pork knuckle sandwich, the hambao burger and the Big Chicken Box are the standouts from the counter list. Then add something with chew or custard. The mochi donut and millet mochi donut carry the texture the bakery is known for, the pine nut cookie is the buttery option, and the egg custard tart is the quiet classic that finishes the visit.