As pastry chef and co-owner at République Café & Bakery in Los Angeles, Margarita Manzke serves her French-inspired bread and pastry to the great and the good of Tinseltown. The building is also home to her husband Walter’s restaurant and a storied location, built in 1928 by Charlie Chaplin and later home to La Brea Bakery and Campanile Restaurant. Chef Margarita, known as Margie, has built République into one of LA’s most respected and interesting bakeries while working on a clutch of other businesses, including fine dining restaurant Manzke, Mexican-inspired Petty Cash Taqueria, Filipino rice-bowl restaurant Sari Sari, and the bistro Bicyclette, as well as a chain of Wildflour Bakeries in the Philippines, where she grew up. In 2023, she won the James Beard Award for Outstanding Pastry Chef or Baker.
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