La Tour Bakehouse

Nobody gets between me and my La Tour bread. Nobody.
Recently I’ve taken up rustic bread making as an occasional hobby. I swear that there must be some crack-​voodoo-​fairy magic (I’ve seen it with my own eyes) that happens when the bread dough ferments and is popped into an oven. The freshly-​baked bread smell turns little, under-​5-​foot me into a carb-​mongering Jabba the Hut. Its yeasty, warm, and well, bready scent makes you vow to never get a loaf of boring, old Wonderbread ever again.
Hawaii is good at many things culinary, but there’s a lack of artisan French and Italian pastry and bread scene that makes me long for bakeries in Seattle and San Francisco. This is where La Tour comes along and quenches my thirst for all things baguette, boule, and ciabatta. Their baguettes are perfectly crispy and well worth maxing out your carb intake for the day for. They’re perfect with some olive oil, balsamic, and chevre. I’m seriously crying just thinking about it.
What are you waiting for? Liberate yourself from your plain loaves of Target white bread and get your bum over to the nearest Whole Foods, pick up a loaf of their bread, and have some quality carbo loading time. You will thank me later. ;-)

La Tour Bakehouse is a Honolulu artisan bakery which has their products in grocery stores like Foodland and Whole Foods. They also have a stand at popular farmers’ markets around town. Most notably at Kapiolani Community College on Saturday mornings.
The stand at KCC is huge. By far the largest bakery stand there. They have plenty of selection. You will find different kinds of breads, pastries and snacks. For instance, they have artisan loaves and baguettes but also sell shokupan (Japanese sliced bread). They also have tropical sweet breads as well.
What I noticed on my last visit here was that they have a lot of snacks that would make for good omiyage (souvenir gift) as they come packaged already. I grabbed a bag of the Hawaiian granola chips which are shaped in the form of a cookie with tropical flavors from ingredients like macadamia nuts and pineapple which are tasty.
If you want to bring back different goodies from Hawaii than the usual macadamia nuts and chocolates, check out La Tour’s bakery stand at farmers’ markets around Oahu.

I have been a long time loyal customer for their baking goods and macaroons.
You can find their goods at Farmer’s Market, WholeFood and Nico’s Fish Market.
Every week, I had been buying their almond croissant at the Farmer’s Market and WholeFood.
The Farmer’s Market on Wednesdays by the Blaisdel used to have the freshest Almond croissant but the past few weeks, they are not the best condition and croissant had gotten smaller.
I loved the goods for so long, and recent disappointment was so big, but their goods are still good. I rate 4 star even though I won’t be buying at the Farmer’s market for a while.