Last year, a similar concept dubbed Bear Cheese Tart opened at a food hall in Tustin, Calif. The 572-square-foot café will be part of Westfield San Francisco Centre, a large shopping center on the city’s iconic Market Street. According to Bake’s website, customers can eat the tarts fresh, frozen, chilled or reheated in a toaster oven.īake’s 48th location will open on May 4 in San Francisco. units will import frozen tarts from the company’s home base in Japan. To maintain consistency and keep up with demand, U.S. In the U.S., the tarts will be priced at $3.75 each. stores will sell cheese tarts and coffee as mainstays,” the company said. Overseas shops also sell coffee and soft-serve ice cream cones.

The tarts are made with a double-baked crust and come in a variety of flavors, such as chocolate and honey lemon. “We have an unrivaled passion for pastries,” Nishio said in a statement. Most locations sell about 3,000 to 4,000 tarts a day, and some high-volume locations sell 5,000 tarts a day, the company said.īake CEO Shuhei Nishio said the company sources the finest ingredients to make its pastries, which contain a velvety mousse filling made from three different types of cream cheese. The first shop opened to wild success in Hokkaido, in 2013.īake has since grown to more than 20 shops in Japan, as well as additional locations in South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Shanghai, Singapore, Vietnam and the Philippines. Bake’s petite, creamy, tart-like pastries, made with a shortbread-cookie-style crust, are considered artisanal delicacies in Japan.

The 47-unit chain from Japan, which has at least one copycat in the U.S., plans to open up to 50 domestic shops.

Bake Cheese Tart, a Japanese dessert concept with outlets mostly concentrated in Asia, is slated to open its first U.S.

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