Bakery Butter and Crumble to Open Second Location

- The new location, dubbed "The Cake Shop by Butter & Crumble," will focus on owner Sophie Smith's first love, cakes, and will feature a casual seating area. - Smith, a former line cook at A16, started Butter & Crumble in 2020 as a home-based cake business while she was in culinary school. - The business grew through pop-ups and operating out of shared commercial kitchens before opening its first retail location in North Beach in October 2023. - The new Union Street shop is scheduled to open in the summer of 2026 and will offer items like lemon-ricotta pistachio slices and chocolate-ganache toffee, alongside laminated favorites like croissants and cruffins. - The bakery has gained significant popularity, with its first location often selling out by early afternoon and lines forming before it opens. - Butter and Crumble's coffee menu features beans from Abanico Coffee Roasters, a woman-owned San Francisco roaster. - The first bakery location at 271 Francisco Street took over the space previously occupied by Tante Marie's Cooking School, which had closed in 2014 after 35 years. - The expansion into a cake-focused café was made possible in part by new zoning legislation that helps small businesses convert long-vacant storefronts.