When the lease on Valeria Socorro Velazquez Lindsten's bakery was up in summer 2021, she began remodeling an old dry cleaner up the road to build out her dream shop.It seemed like a sure thing: Loba Pastry + Coffee was Chicago magazine's Best New Bakery in 2016, among other plaudits, and Velazquez Lindsten, who got her start as a pastry chef in Chicago's fine dining kitchens after immigrating to the U.S. from Mexico, has legions of devoted to her short, tight, focused program of pineapple sourdough muffins and red mole croissants.
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