VOL. IV · SPRING 2026
BELVEDERE
A baker's hands shaping pastry dough on a wooden table
FROM OUR KITCHEN · BRENTWOOD, LOS ANGELES
ISSUE Nº 04 · BAKER STORIES

Hands, butter, and a hundred-year recipe.

AN AUSTRIAN BAKERY IN BRENTWOOD

We bake the old way. Cold butter, slow ovens, a recipe book that has not been rewritten since 1892, and a pair of careful hands.

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THE COLLECTION · 03

Three pastries
from this week's oven.

A slice of Austrian Sachertorte on a white plate Nº 01BEST SELLER

Sachertörtchen

Sachertorte Bite

Single-bite chocolate sponge, apricot jam, mirror-finish Belgian glaze. Vienna's most famous dessert, served the way the Hotel Sacher serves it — only smaller.

AVAILABLE SUNDAY Try at the market
A slice of Austrian apple strudel with whipped cream Nº 02OVEN FRESH

Apfelstrudel

Apfelstrudel

Tissue-thin pulled dough wrapped around Granny Smiths from Riverside, golden raisins, rum, and Tyrolean cinnamon. Cut warm. Best with a strong coffee.

AVAILABLE SUNDAY Try at the market
A piece of strudel beside a cup of Viennese coffee Nº 03WITH KAFFEE

Strudel mit Kaffee

Strudel · Coffee Pair

Our strudel with a cup of Vienna-style melange — espresso, steamed milk, a cap of velvet foam. The way our grandmothers stopped a long afternoon.

AVAILABLE SUNDAY Try at the market
Flour, butter, almonds and vanilla on a wooden table
ON THE COUNTER THIS WEEK

Twelve more old-world pastries
wait inside the bakery book.

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Belvedere Palace in Vienna
Schloss Belvedere · 3rd district, Vienna · the namesake
St. Stephen's Cathedral at golden hour
Stephansdom · golden hour
ANNO 2 0 2 6 Belvedere
Hasret
OUR STORY · A LETTER FROM HASRET

I grew up in Vienna,
ten minutes from a palace
called Belvedere.

My grandmother lived on the top floor of an old building on Hofburg-Allee, and on Saturdays I would walk up four flights to her kitchen and help her roll out Linzer dough. She would say: "Patience is half the recipe."

Twenty years later, I brought her recipe book to Los Angeles. Nothing about the book has changed — only the address. Every Sunday morning, somewhere between Echo Park and Santa Monica, I unload a van of pastries onto a wooden farmers-market table and try to bake what she baked.

"Patience is half the recipe.
The other half is butter."

— OMA GRETA
Hasret Founder, Head Baker, Van Driver
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OUR FIRST MARKET
SUNDAY9 AM – 2 PM

Brentwood Farmers Market

26th Street & San Vicente Blvd · Brentwood, Los Angeles, CA 90049

Look for the folding table near the produce row — burgundy logo, white cloth

We arrive at 8 AM with two trays of fresh pastries. First-Sunday samples are on the house. Bring cash if you can.

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COMING SOON

MORE LOCATIONS BY FALL 2026

Three new
farmers markets,
on the way.

We hope to add a Sunday market in West LA, a weekday spot in Larchmont, and a holiday pop-up downtown. Subscribe to the journal — we will write when each one opens.

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