Blue Collar Baking Company

If you need a break from Portlandia preciousness, take a trip downtown to this all-American bakery celebrating the industrial heartland. Owner/chief baker Warren Becker hails from Milwaukie, Wisc. and his recipes reveal his Midwestern roots. The delicious cookies have names like Big Rig (oats, cranberries, butterscotch chips), Lug Nut (toffee, pecans, powdered sugar) and Jack Hammer (peanut butter, chopped peanuts, brown sugar) and are made with generous doses of all the good stuff. They also stock a range of buttery bundt cakes, and serve grilled sandwiches at lunch.