Pastry Special Awards 2024Pastry chefInternational selection

Noelia Tomoshige

Pastelería Monroebakes

Madrid, Spain

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Pastry Talent of the Year Award

Most promising pastry chefs of the year (across bakeries, tea rooms, and dessert restaurants)

Noelia Tomoshige, founder of Madrid’s Monroebakes, is an outstanding new face on the Spanish pastry scene even though it is her second career. She spent ten years working in luxury retail before a visit to Tokyo led her to a short course in Japanese pâtisserie at the Fait Beau Tokyo school, where she discovered her vocation. She went on to complete the pastry diploma at Le Cordon Bleu Madrid and in 2021 opened Monroebakes, her dreamy cocoon of a cake shop selling French pastry with Japanese influences and a few nods to her Spanish home, such as Pistachio, Yuzu, and Mandarin Tart, Matcha cheesecakes, and Mille Crepe cakes of filled stacked pancakes. “Monroebakes is my imagination come true,” explains Tomoshige. “A pastry shop where the three cultures that define me merge: Japanese, Spanish and French. A place where creativity knows no limits and where everything is possible.”