Croissant
$4.5Honeyed, weightless, 81 layers
Lexington · Massachusetts
Slow bread,
made by hand.
Nouve is a small neighborhood bakery on Mass Ave — wild-yeast loaves, laminated pastries, and seasonal cakes baked from scratch each morning.
36hr
cold ferment
Stone-milled flourWild yeast starterFrench butterBaked dailyFamily owned
This week's bench
Pastry, in its quietest form.
We laminate by hand, three days at a time. Croissants pull apart in honeyed sheets. Almond cream is folded fresh each morning. Tarts change with what's growing nearby — rhubarb in spring, stone fruit in July, quince by November.
Browse the full menu →From the case
Six things worth the drive.
A small, rotating selection from our pastry case — pulled from the oven each morning until they're gone.
Raspberry Danish
$7.49Passion fruit curd, fresh raspberries
Cinnamon Swirl
$5.5Cream cheese glaze, warm cinnamon
Blueberry Danish
$6.5Wild blueberries, vanilla pastry cream
Galette des Rois
$12Puff pastry, almond frangipane
House Latte
$5Espresso, microfoam, steady hand
Our story
A bakery built around time.
Nouve began in a home oven in 2019 — one loaf, then a dozen, then a line down the street. Today our shop sits on Massachusetts Avenue, a few doors from the Battle Green, with a wood-floor dining room and a window onto the bakers at work.
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Find us
1789 Massachusetts Avenue
Lexington, MA · Open Tuesday through Sunday, 7am – 4pm
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