WHY Breakfast croissants that are the best for many miles, and fab lunchtime sandwiches: egg salad, chicken salad and an amazing BLAT (bacon, lettuce, avocado and tomato). Excellent coffee, too.

WHAT Sumi Chang’s extraordinary bakery is also a swell place for lunch. Her staff doesn’t always display her kindness and people skills, and the seating is basic, but the devout fans don’t mind when they get their breakfast goodies or pressed sandwiches.

WHO Pasadena’s intelligentsia read their New Yorkers at small café tables over pains aux chocolats or lunchtime sandwiches.

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