Arsicault Bakery is planning a new location in Palo Alto set to open in the fall of 2026, according to Palo Alto Online.
CEO Armando Lacayo told Palo Alto Online the bakery is headed for a September or October opening at 388 Cambridge Ave., in a 36,000-square-foot mixed-use development that opened in November 2025.
Arsicault’s Palo Alto location will be its first foray out of San Francisco. The bakery’s first location in Inner Richmond opened in 2015 with a curated menu of pastries and small bites. Arsicault quickly gained national attention, crowned the best new bakery in the country in 2016 by Bon Appétit for its “preposterously flaky” croissants.
The French bakery opened a location on McAllister Street in 2020 and in Mission Rock in March 2025. With the business’s expansions came an expanded menu, including a full coffee bar, breads, and a small selection of sandwiches like The Londoner, a ham sandwich with butter, sea salt, and orange marmalade à la Paddington.
Arsicault is also planning a fourth location in San Francisco’s Financial District, occupying one of the ground-level spaces in The Spear, a 13-story building at 88 Spear St., two streets over from the Ferry Building. Presidio Bay Ventures, the real estate development and investment firm heading The Spear, also developed 388 Cambridge, where the forthcoming Palo Alto Arsicault is expected to open. It’s unclear when the Financial District location is expected to open.
