606076 Mon Mar 23 09:59:07 -0700 2009 21 1 San Francisco Bay Area 0 4529951 Any ideas on where I can buy fresh or frozen all butter puff pastry on the Peninsula or even SF? I read in old posts that TJ's has a good product but couple of times I have checked they have not. All the stores I've checked only seem to carry Pepperidge farms, which I don't care for or none at all. Mon Mar 23 09:59:07 -0700 2009 252489 greggc 1 4529983 Have you tried Whole Foods? Mon Mar 23 10:03:35 -0700 2009 4529951 11369 Robert Lauriston 1 4529995 If you know of a bakery where you like the puff pastry, you might ask you if can buy some. Mon Mar 23 10:06:40 -0700 2009 4529951 10159 Ruth Lafler 1 4530006 I hope tj's hasn't stopped carrying their puff pastry. It was pretty good. I know whole foods carries it, I've seen it in San Mateo and RWC. Mon Mar 23 10:09:55 -0700 2009 4529951 15457 peppatty 1 4530148 I've bought puff pastry at the TJs on Masonic/Geary. Rainbow and WF also carry some in a tin box (cardboard top). Mon Mar 23 10:53:54 -0700 2009 4529951 136252 rahir 1 4530155 Bi-Rite Market on 18th between Dolores and Guerrero in SF sells its house-brand puff pastry, which I think they use at Bi-Rite creamery. I've used it once or twice before--it's very good, and expensive. Mon Mar 23 10:55:37 -0700 2009 4529951 19097 pane 1 4530275 TJs stuff is quite good. I've not had a problem finding it in the east bay. If you do go to Oakland, the Pasta shop in Market Hall (Rockridge BART) has their own in the case. Haven't used it though, and haven't been there in a while, so call ahead if you're considering it. Mon Mar 23 11:23:27 -0700 2009 4529951 13670 Bryan Gros 1 4530364 Pepperidge Farm has a frozen puff pastry that perfectly good and which is carried by almost every supermarket I've ever been in. All Whole Foods stores in the Bay Area also carry a brand of frozen puff pastry. Mon Mar 23 11:45:56 -0700 2009 4529951 11277 Paul H 2 4530624 The request is for all-butter puff paste and explicitly not for Pepperidge Farm, which is made with shortening. Mon Mar 23 12:58:49 -0700 2009 4530364 11369 Robert Lauriston 3 4530629 Oops. missed that. Now I'm going to have to do a puff pastry cook off. You do seem to be right about the shortening... Unbleached Enriched Wheat Flour (Flour, Malted Barley Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B1), Riboflavin) Vitamin B2), Folic Acid), Water, Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Shortening (Soybean and Cottonseed Oils Colored With Beta Carotene), Contains 2% or Less of: Gluten, Mono and Diglycerides (from Hydrogenated Soybean Oil), and Soy Lecithin. Mon Mar 23 13:00:53 -0700 2009 4530624 11277 Paul H 1 4530464 Mollie Stone's stores carry puff pastry as do Andronico's. I think that both of these chains carry the excellent Dufour brand. Mon Mar 23 12:14:42 -0700 2009 4529951 10644 Nancy Berry 1 4530558 Piazza's Fine Foods (Palo Alto, at least) carries frozen all butter puff pastry that works beautifully. Good luck -- Howard Mon Mar 23 12:39:36 -0700 2009 4529951 206694 anyhow 1 4530773 Whole Foods has the Dufour brand, which is all butter and excellent, and Whole Foods has it at the best price that I've found locally. Mon Mar 23 13:39:26 -0700 2009 4529951 13525 JasmineG 2 4531600 Thanks for the suggestions. I was actually looking for a peninsula alternative to the Market Hall Bakery in Rockridge. I like their product, but its a long way away. I checked Whole foods in Palo Alto and I didn't see it. Its a small store, so I'll go to the one in Redwood City and check there. I keep forgetting about Piazza and Drager's too. I called Andronico's and they said they didn't carry it.....but maybe I ought to go look myself. I'll definitely give the Dufour brand a try. Mon Mar 23 17:34:38 -0700 2009 4530773 252489 greggc 3 4531612 If you can't find it at Whole Foods, ask, sometimes it's stuck away in weird places. Mon Mar 23 17:38:31 -0700 2009 4531600 11369 Robert Lauriston 3 4531810 The brand that Whole Foods carries is the same brand that they have at Market Hall (Dufour) so you'll like it when you find it! At least at the Berkeley Whole Foods, it's a few dollars cheaper. Mon Mar 23 18:38:02 -0700 2009 4531600 13525 JasmineG 3 4532242 Just got home and checked the package in the freezer. Piazza's sells the Dufour brand. Mon Mar 23 21:27:39 -0700 2009 4531600 206694 anyhow 3 4533041 I havr seen it at Andronico's in Palo Alto and Los Altos Whole Foods and maybe even Sigona's Tue Mar 24 08:11:58 -0700 2009 4531600 15001 jsaimd 1 4532101 TJ's san carlos has it in the pizza freezer, the box is shaped like a pizza. $4.99. Just saw a big stack today. Mon Mar 23 20:21:41 -0700 2009 4529951 15457 peppatty 2 4534074 I just did some googling, and came up with this e-gullet thread that indicates TJ's puff pastry is all-butter and made by Bay Bread for TJ, as well as the rustic levain and apricot streusel tartes: http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?showtopic=106587 I'm intrigued by your description of a pizza-shaped box at TJ, because the dufour product is folded over more than I would like due to the rectangular deep tin box. Tue Mar 24 12:42:58 -0700 2009 4532101 17221 SteveG 3 4534112 The puff pastry sold at TJ's comes in a flat sheet with no folds. Tue Mar 24 12:52:06 -0700 2009 4534074 197650 cvhound 4 4537409 Yes, I like that It's easy to defrost since it's flat. It's a better price than the other stuff, although I didn't compare the quantity of Dufour brand vs. TJ's Wed Mar 25 12:08:37 -0700 2009 4534112 15457 peppatty