Core LBA Values

At LBA, we take pride in being a small, family-owned company that genuinely cares about our customers and the quality of everything we make. There are plenty of giant, profit driven corporations in the world. We have a different ethos. We focus on crafting the best pastry doughs and baked goods, made with the best ingredients we can find and we make it with love and attention to detail.

As important to us as the quality of the products is the quality of the lives and wellbeing of our employees. Our people are an extension of our family and we support and celebrate them, just as we do you and yours. We aim to do great work and live great lives, with, and that is not hyperbole. It’s a simple concept, but it has been the driving force and the core spirit of everything that has guided us from the start.

A 1970s photo, depicting a side profile of a man with light brown hair and a mustache, wearing a chef's coat, looking downward in a kitchen setting, preparing something.

Pike St. - 1978

Michel Robert, working through the night at LBA’s original Pike Street location on Capitol Hill in Seattle.

The Origins

For over 45 years, LBA has provided the highest quality croissant, French pastries, and laminated doughs that America has to offer. Bringing the idea from France to America, owners Margie, Michel, and Randal set out to provide an artisanal craftsmanship and consistency, previously only seen in boulangeries and restaurants across Europe.

Growing from their little retail spot on Seattle’s famous Pike Street in 1978, churning out daily-baked croissants to Seattle’s finest hotels and restaurants, LBA expanded both their space and their product line to become the full-scale wholesale plant they are today, offering (along with their still hand-shaped croissants) puff pastry, danish, pie and tart shells and dough, cinnamon rolls, cookies, crêpes, focaccia, breadsticks, brioche, and much more to thousands of end users nationwide.