Chefs and Restaurants

Chefs to Watch 2020: Katherine Benvenuti, The Bakery at Bar King, Portland, Ore.

Danielle Centoni

The pastry case at The Bakery at Bar King in Portland, Ore., looks simple at first: unfussy pound cakes, chocolate chip cookies, doughnuts, and miniature pies. Look closer and you realize there’s peach jam tucked inside that puffy doughnut and it’s topped with an Earl Grey ganache. Those chocolate chip cookies are spiked with a salty-umami hit of miso, and the pies hide a secret of matcha sponge cake and passionfruit curd...