Butter Cream Bakery is a pink-and-white-striped beacon of sugar and caffeine on a four-lane strip in the heart of Napa, California. Inside you’ll find glass cases crammed with apricot danishes, pink-glazed doughnuts, and birthday cakes glowing with artificial color, all baked in-house. If you’re in the mood for something more substantial, Butter Cream is also the city’s only real diner and has been slinging perfect eggs, hash browns, and tea in small pink plastic pots since the 1940s.

Despite its transformation from a backwater to a bachelorette destination, Napa holds on to the best of its old-school treasures. It’s a city that refuses to fully participate in any bright, shiny future that doesn’t include sheet cake and bottomless coffee cups. I cherish this stubborn attachment to the past because it means I can return, again and again, to Butter Cream’s fluorescent-lit breakfast tables.

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