Bakery

Winner: Bakery Nouveau
The heat was on in this category. You love your local bakery, where you buy your daily bread or pop in for a treat with the kids. Your praise for West Seattle’s small Bakery Nouveau -- which creates “outstanding,” gotta-have-that-right-now macaroons, tarts, cakes, breads and pastries -- was giddy. You love the bakery’s croissants and have noticed its “kid-friendly case” and the staff’s sweet way with children. “OMG. Everything in there is ridiculously good!”

Finalists:
Ballard’s tiny Café Besalu often has lines out the door, and with good reason: “Our three-year-old devours the brioche, ginger biscuits and chocolate croissants.”

“Community minded” Columbia City Bakery, located in Seattle’s historic Columbia City neighborhood, offers “excellent bread and pastries, local and seasonal fruit and ingredients, and supportive staff.” And – bonus for kids! – “new shapes and colors of thematic sugar cookies every day.”

You like Frost Doughnuts in Mill Creek for its reasonable prices, “lots of fun flavors” and “really fast, friendly service.”

Mellow Grateful Bread in Wedgwood is perfect for families: “There is an area with toys and couches so the kids can play…my son loves the bagels but I am partial to the giant cookies!”

Finally, you gave local doughnut-shop-made-good Top Pot Donuts (many locations) what may be the most interesting endorsement we’ve seen: “If they're good enough for the president of the United States of America, they're good enough for my kids.”