Monica Williams
Warda Patisserie will soon be serving some of Detroit’s best hand-crafted pastries at a second home in Cass Corridor.
Founder and pastry chef Warda Bouguettaya
is opening another location of her nationally acclaimed patisserie in May, at 70 W. Alexandria, on the ground floor of the Strathmore Apartments. The original shop, on Gratiot in Eastern Market, will remain open, she tells Eater.
Born in Algeria, Bouguettaya celebrates through her seasonal pastries all of the places she’s lived and traveled: North Africa, France, and Asia. Bouguettaya crafts tantalizing tarts, airy focaccia, Algerian treats, and gluten-free tea cakes, sourcing seasonal ingredients from local farmers, when possible. Recent menus included chocolate and halvah cookies, vanilla bean flan financiers, rhubarb galettes, a multilayered Russian honey cake, passionfruit tarts, and a mushroom, dill, and feta quiche. The Midtown menu will serve the sweets the patisserie is known for, as well as a