Sweet Hut Bakery & Cafe

Sweet Hut Bakery & Cafe is a bakery in Atlanta, GA. It is a Chinese Malaysian bakery serving pastries, boba and tea, cafe fare, savory items, and cakes. The bakery's case includes Portuguese egg tarts with caramelized tops and custard centers, taro butterfly pastries made with stone-ground taro, violet bread baked as a purple sweet potato milk loaf, French macarons in rotating daily flavors, red bean mochi, strawberry buttercream buns made with fresh strawberry and Hokkaido cream, pork sung buns, curry chicken puffs folded with 72 layers, ham and cheese buns, spring onion bread, hot dog cheese buns, curry chicken buns, mozzarella cheese buns, and pork sung egg tarts. The drink menu includes taro milk tea and bubble tea shaken to order, along with mango cloud, peach cloud, and strawberry cloud drinks. Wedding cakes are also offered, and catering is available.

Sweet Hut opened on Buford Highway in 2012 as the Ewe family's answer to a craving for the Cantonese bakeries they grew up with, where pork buns and egg tarts came out warm at any hour. Atlanta already had small, tucked-away Asian bakeries; Sweet Hut set out to build one that anyone could wander into, bright and generous with seating, a place to stay a while. Eight houses later across Atlanta and Dallas, the recipe has not changed: baked fresh, six times a day, with a hundred pastries pulled from the oven and each house baking a wider selection fresh daily.

The bakery sits on Peachtree Street Northeast in Midtown, about a tenth of a mile from the Margaret Mitchell House, which is both a memorial and a museum. Two public artworks, The Sole Sitter and Avenues of Engagement, stand within a short walk of the door.

Sweet Hut holds a rating of 4.50 from the customers who have reviewed it.

For Midtown Atlanta, Sweet Hut brings the warm-at-any-hour Cantonese bakery tradition into a bright, seating-friendly space where the egg tarts and boba keep coming out fresh six times a day.