Starting in 2021, Anissa Terres sold pastries at local farmers markets from a bright yellow booth. On September 30 she moved that yellow indoors. The Daily Evergreen reports that her shop, La Pâtissière by Anissa, opened between Gabagool Charcuterie and Sims Glass in downtown Pullman. It looks like the booth, now with a door.
The timing works out well. Pullman Market on Main holds its last scheduled outdoor Saturday on October 31, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Kamiaken and Olsen streets. When the tents come down, the 100 block of South Grand Avenue keeps going. That short stretch is now lined with food businesses that began much like market stalls: small, in borrowed space, and testing whether Pullman would show up.
Four doors on the 100 block of South Grand
Here's the block from south to north, using the addresses each business posts:
- Larissa's Apron, 165 S Grand Ave, Suite B: juice, smoothies, acai bowls, wraps and salads
- Gabagool Charcuterie, 185 S Grand Ave: a specialty shop with a café serving sandwiches, wine, beer and charcuterie boards
- La Pâtissière by Anissa, 187 S Grand Ave: French-style cakes, pies, baklava, kunafa, savory dishes, seasonal pastries and a daily soup
- Sims Glass, 195 S Grand Ave, the neighbor at the end of the row
Three food businesses fit within about 22 street numbers, and two of them have opened in 2026. Larissa's Apron opened at 165 S Grand on February 17. La Pâtissière opened at 187 seven and a half months later.
Every one of them started somewhere smaller
Before reaching South Grand, the juice bar and the bakery both started in space that belonged to someone else.
Larissa Seeber's business started in December 2023 as a juicing project in the rented commercial kitchen at the Community Action Center. By the end of February 2024 she had outgrown that kitchen, and in March she moved into a space in the flats. In November 2025 she decided to move again, and the Daily Evergreen reported that the earlier location was about 150 square feet. "I started with juice, and then I added smoothies, hired my first employee, added acai bowls, and it's just grown from there," Seeber told the paper.
Terres's path ran through the market. The Evergreen's profile says she spent five years at the yellow booth before opening on South Grand. She also cooked for the community as head chef at Sunnyside Elementary for a time. Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories brought her family to Pullman in 2020. She grew up in Tunisia, and that shapes both the name and the pastry case. La pâtissière is the feminine form of "the baker," and Tunisian pastry culture leans heavily on French styles.
Those market years affected the recipes too. Terres found that American customers preferred sweeter pastries than she was used to making in the French and Mediterranean styles. She told the Daily Evergreen she adjusted:
"I tried as much as I can to meet the taste of the local people. And also introduce my things."
That approach shows on her menu. It has traditional baklava, plus a version layered with Nutella, alongside quiches, cakes and tarts.
The market began in borrowed space too. In its own retelling, Pullman Market on Main grew "from borrowed pavement into an indoor winter market at 300 E. Main," and from there to closing downtown streets on Olsen and Kamiaken each Saturday. In each case a small start found its customers and then took on a bigger room.
Who helped the bakery open
Opening a storefront takes more than a loyal booth following. Terres credits the Center for Inclusive Entrepreneurship, which gives free advising to small business owners in rural Washington. The Evergreen also reports that the Downtown Pullman Association paid part of the cost of her signage.
The association also offers a separate facade program. Its Beautiful Buildings grant reimburses up to $1,000, with a 50 percent match, for qualifying exterior work such as paint, awnings and murals. The current rules exclude signage, so the bakery's sign help came from somewhere other than that grant. The association also publishes a small-business toolkit that covers Pullman's seasonal economy and local resources.
Two downtown storefronts this year started with a rented kitchen or a market booth, and both landed on the same block.
A November Saturday on South Grand
After October 31, Saturday morning downtown won't have a market until the indoor season starts. The organizers say they are still setting up the 2026–2027 Indoor Winter Market and will announce details soon. Until then, the South Grand block covers most of the day on its own.
Here are each shop's posted Saturday hours as of late October:
Business | Address | Saturday | Rest of the week |
|---|---|---|---|
Larissa's Apron | 165 S Grand Ave, Ste B | 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. | Mon–Fri 8:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.; Sun 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. |
Gabagool Charcuterie | 185 S Grand Ave | 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. | Thu–Fri 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.; closed Sun–Wed |
La Pâtissière by Anissa | 187 S Grand Ave | 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. | Tue–Fri 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sun 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; closed Mon |
On Saturdays the block runs from Larissa's Apron opening at 10 a.m. to Gabagool and La Pâtissière closing at 7 p.m. The bakery's Saturday hours are an afternoon window, unlike its daytime hours the rest of the week. Before making a trip just for pastry, check the bakery's Instagram, which the shop uses to post the day's selection.
Gabagool is open to walk-ins only Thursday through Saturday. It still takes pre-ordered platters and catering on the days the shop is closed. For a holiday gathering, that means calling ahead, not dropping by on a Tuesday.
If you're used to a Saturday morning market run, Moscow fills the gap for now. The 1912 Center lists winter market dates of November 7, November 14, December 5 and December 12, with shopping from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in indoor vendor spaces and on the outdoor Plaza. You could shop in Moscow in the morning and be back on South Grand when the bakery opens at 3.
The dates between now and Holiday Fest
- Saturday, October 31: Market on Main's last scheduled outdoor Saturday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Kamiaken and Olsen streets.
- Saturday, November 7: First listed date of the 1912 Center winter market in Moscow, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
- Saturday, November 14: Second 1912 Center winter market date.
- Saturday, December 5: Pullman Holiday Fest, 4 to 8 p.m., free, with a community tree lighting, an artisan marketplace, Santa, storytime, cultural performances, cocoa and cookies. The 1912 Center winter market also runs in Moscow that morning.
- Saturday, December 12: Last listed 1912 Center winter market date of 2026.
Visit Pullman's Holiday Fest listing says more details are coming and doesn't name a venue yet. The 2025 Holiday Fest was held at Pine Street Plaza, according to the Daily Evergreen, but this year's site hasn't been confirmed. If it lands downtown again, the festival's 4 p.m. start falls inside La Pâtissière's and Gabagool's Saturday hours, which both run to 7 p.m.
Once the indoor Market on Main dates are announced, downtown will have a Saturday morning market again. For now, Saturdays on South Grand stay open through November.
If you live within walking distance of South Grand, new shops like these are part of what your home is worth. When you want to know how downtown's changes show up in your property's value, Krista Gross can put together a personalized home valuation that accounts for what's opening on your block.
