Bed and Breadfast: ‘Yeast & Yawn’ cooking up chewy, homemade bread in Old Bangkok

By Coconuts Bangkok

Apr 28, 2021 | 3:34pm Bangkok time

The Old Town’s Y3 opened as an Airbnb in 2019, just before tourism became veritably nonexistent. So now the owners are channeling their passion for artisanal sourdough bread into a bakery there, too.

Embracing the “less is more” ideal and renamed Yeast and Yawn, it’s a place of minimal interiors and furniture. Picture an apartment feature in Dezeen splashed with fresh-baked breakfast spreads.

Book a stay in one of their cozy, 28-sqm rooms and indulge in homemade breakfast served to your door or just head down to Yeast, their newly opened cafe.

The highlight here is the all-natural bread, which goes through a 16-hour fermentation process to give it a chewy and soft texture.

Try their signature sourdough (THB60 per slice / THB120 per loaf), baked with wild yeast and Japanese flour; the shokupan (THB80 per set / THB180 per loaf) with your choice of spread; and New York-style sourdough bagels (THB60) with cream cheese. For something heartier, dig into their sourdough grilled cheese sandwich (THB160).

There’s a selection of caffeinated and non-caffeinated drinks to pair with your slices. Grab the Yawn (THB80), a sort of dirty malted milk but made with espresso and topped with dark chocolate flakes, or try the rich, smooth double chocolate (THB90), a heavenly blend of Ivory Coast cocoa and French dark chocolate.

The coffee, meanwhile, is brewed with beans from Doi Chang and Doi Pangkhon.