Born in Córdoba. Built in Seattle.
An Argentine bakery and coffee shop in Pioneer Square, Seattle
Alfajores, facturas and sándwiches de miga, baked in the morning on 1st Ave S. Come in for a cortado and stay for the counter.
Pioneer Square · 221 1st Ave S · Open 7 days
Nuestra historia
An Argentine bakery, run by an Argentine family
It starts with a man selling bread in Córdoba. Our grandfather began on a street called Acapulco and worked his way out from there, selling bread door to door.
His son then started a bakery as well. He opened Acapulco in Córdoba, named after the street the bakery was on, and ran it the way he had been taught. Everything by hand, everything from scratch, out of the oven before the city woke up.
We are the third generation helping our father continue what was started in Córdoba, and Argentum keeps the same recipes and traditions. Same recipes, same early mornings, same stubbornness about doing it properly.
Seattle did not have this counter. Now it does. If you are Argentine, you will know the second you walk in. If you are not, we invite you to try it and see what you have been missing. We are proud to share our family’s history with you.
La panadería
Argentine pastries, sandwiches and coffee
Six shelves worth of Argentina, made here every morning. Prices and pack sizes are all on the menu page.
Alfajores
An alfajor is two soft cookies with something pressed between them, almost always dulce de leche. It is a national obsession. If you only try one thing here, make it this.
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Facturas
Facturas are the sweet pastries at the front counter. The dough gets folded, buttered and rested the night before, then shaped one at a time and baked at dawn. That is where the layers come from, and it is why a tray that sells out stays empty until tomorrow.
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Tartas
Argentine tarts are shortcrust based and generous with the dulce de leche. They come whole, not by the slice. Order ahead if you need a specific one for a party.
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Mini Cakes
Small versions of the classic Argentine cakes. Big enough for a birthday at the office, small enough for a Tuesday that needs help.
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Sándwiches
Argentine sandwiches are their own food group. The famous one is the sándwich de miga: paper thin crustless bread stacked three high, cut into fingers. No birthday, office meeting or family visit happens without a tray of them.
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Empanadas
An empanada is a savory pastry folded around a filling and baked. The rope of pleats along the edge is called a repulgue, and back home the pattern tells you what is inside. Ask us what we have on the day.
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Criollitos
Criollitos are little savory biscuits made with salted dough and good beef lard, which is what gives them that rustic smell. They go with coffee, they go with mate, they go with nothing at all.
See pricesNuestro oficio
Three generations of Argentine baking, all of it from scratch
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Facturas folded by hand
The dough is started the evening before, then buttered, folded and rested in stages so the layers build properly. Every factura is shaped by hand and baked the morning you buy it.
02
Real dulce de leche
Not caramel. It goes into the alfajores, the cakes and the lattes in the amount an Argentine bakery would use, which is a generous one. Cut an alfajor open and you will see it.
03
We bake the pan de miga ourselves
Most places buy the crustless loaf in. We bake ours, then slice it thin for the sándwiches de miga the same day. In Argentina there is no birthday and no office meeting without a tray of them, and this is why ours taste like home.
El café
The coffee is not an afterthought
Espresso pulled to order, cold brew that steeps overnight, and a house list you will not find anywhere else in Seattle. The Alfajor Latte tastes like the cookie. Ask about El 22 and El 10.
Full Drink MenuNuestra gente
Photos from our community
Taken in the shop, not in a studio. Trays as they come out of the oven, plates as they go out to the tables, and what people carry home with them.
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What came out of the oven today
We post the day's tray in the morning and it usually goes fast. Follow along to see what is on the counter before you walk over.
@argentum_bakeryPara compartir
Feeding a crowd
Trays of sándwiches de miga, boxes of alfajores, whole tartas and mini cakes. This is what we do for offices, birthdays, baby showers and anything else where people are going to stand around a table and pick at things.
A day or two of notice is usually enough. For anything over about fifty people, give us a week.
Sándwiches de miga
From $60 a dozenSold by the dozen and cut into fingers. Ham and cheese, ternera, or verdura. This is the default party tray back home.
Alfajores by the box
From $25 a six packSix or twelve of any variety, or a mix so nobody has to agree on one. The thing people bring to the office.
Facturas by the dozen
From $40 a dozenMedialunas plain or rellenas, facturas and anything else on the pastry counter, all baked that morning. Good for a breakfast meeting.
Whole tartas and mini cakes
From $7.50 eachPastafrola, cabsha, coco or lemon pie, sold whole. Mini cakes if the group is smaller.
Tell us the date and the headcount and we will tell you what we can do.
Vengan a vernos
We are on 1st Ave S, and the coffee is already on
Dine in, grab it to go, or call ahead for a tray. Open seven days. Weekdays from 8, late on Friday and Saturday.