Macrina Bakery : if you’ve never had their tasty treats, you should totally do something about that posthaste. Macrina bakes a variety of breads and pastries and cakes and in their cafes cooks up soup, salads and other savory fare.

I highly recommend making Wednesday, August 27, the day you do that something about it: Macrina is celebrating their fifteenth anniversary and instead of asking for presents, they are giving them away in the form of a free brown sugar shortbread cookie, available at all of their current locations. To continue the celebration they’re offering their gloriously delicious signature Giuseppe bread, a crusty Italian style bread perfect for sandwiches, with soup, or all on its own, for $2.15 from August 27 to September 3.

Macrina currently has three locations: in 1st Ave in Belltown, on McGraw Ave, and on Vashon Island. While you are stopping in for your free cookie and discount loaves of bread I highly recommend checking out the cherry almond scones, the spinach and cheese dumpling, the Budapest coffee cake (so yummy I periodically dream about it), and, well…pretty much everything else they make, too. Macrina also makes several of their products for sale at various local markets and cafes. As an added bonus, Macrina bake their goods with as many locally produced ingredients as possible - you can totally taste the freshness.