These days, the bakery makes over 60,000 king cakes each year and ships nationwide to meet its customer demand. Already, online orders are completely booked for the 2025 Carnival season.

How a bakery founded by South Vietnamese refugees in the early 1980s elevated New Orleans’s reputation as one of the best food cities in the world ...

The menu covers a lot of ground ... Try and visit during Mardi Gras season, so you can also try the award-winning Dong Phuong king cakes, which the bakery stocks. When you see a vintage neon Bugs ...

Decorating Mardi Gras king cakes at Dong Phuong Bakery & Restaurant in New Orleans. Photo by C. Ross for The Washington Post via Getty Images Elias Alvarado rolling out butter for a king cake at ...

Samantha Weiss, co-founder of Ayu Bakehouse, holds a trio of "Croissant City Classic" king cakes hot from the oven at her Frenchmen Street bakery ... answer is yes. Dong Phuong’s take on ...

I’d heard for years that Dong Phuong Bakery – a James Beard Award winner ... He has spent four decades in the restaurant industry, written 13 books, and written a syndicated newspaper column ...

King cake lovers darted through a chilly rain Friday morning into Lee’s International Market in Biloxi, where they joined a line of customers anxious to get their hands on the coveted Mardi Gras treat ...