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Cookie Butter Pear Danish and More: Sugar & Sage Rolls Out Fall

The Cristo Amann has company. A few weeks after Sugar & Sage Bakery turned Dallas on its ear with a Monte Cristo baked inside a kouign-amann, the little bakery on Lovers Lane has rolled out its fall lineup, and it is the best argument yet for setting an alarm on a Saturday morning.

If you have not been, Sugar & Sage sits at 4314 Lovers Lane, across from Highland Park High School. Alison Weinstein opened it in 2023 with her daughter, Ashley Sage Weinstein, after the two spent years eating their way through New York’s best bakeries. To run the kitchen, they hired Jill Bates, and that was the smartest thing they could have done.

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Terra and Sugar & Sage Team Up for a Five-Week Brunch Collaboration

Terra, the restaurant inside Eataly Dallas at NorthPark Center, is bringing back its Terra Takeover series, and this round pairs the Italian marketplace’s kitchen with one of Dallas’s most respected pastry programs. From July 25 through August 23, weekends only, Terra will host a limited-time brunch collaboration with Sugar & Sage Bakery, the University Park bakery that’s built a genuine following since opening in 2023.

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The Kouign-Amann at Sugar and Sage is the Best Reason to Visit Lovers Lane

There is a pastry that launched a bakery. Not a concept, not a business plan — a single bite of kouign-amann at a New York patisserie that Alison Weinstein and her teenage daughter Ashley shared years ago, looked at each other across the table, and decided that Dallas needed one. That moment is how Sugar and Sage Bakery came to exist at 4314 Lovers Lane in University Park, and the kouign-amann is still the reason to go.

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Kouign‑Amann: Buttery, Caramelized Pastry Obsession

If you’ve ever seen a pastry that looks like a caramel-crusted croissant and wondered what it is, there’s a good chance you were staring at a kouign‑amann (pronounced “queen‑ah‑mahn”). This rich, flaky treat comes from a very unlikely origin story — and has quietly become one of the most talked-about pastries in cities like Dallas.

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