Sweet news: Yigit Pura, the first season winner of "Top Chef: Just Desserts," is launching his eagerly anticipated Tout Sweet Patisserie in San Francisco's Union Square. The sweet shop, which opens Saturday in a pristine white and hot pink space on Macy's third floor, will offer buttery croissants and savory pop-tarts as well as Cutie Pies, Tesla Tarts, macarons and pate de fruit -- soft French fruit candies. The new patisserie will be open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays, and 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sundays. Find photos at Facebook.com/BayAreaNewsGroup.Food.Wine and more details at www.toutsweetsf.com.

Icing on the cake: Meanwhile in Oakland's Uptown, the Sweet Bar Bakery is prepping for launch. It's the latest venture from Mani Niall, former exec chef at the Bay Area's Just Desserts, founder of Los Angeles' Mani's Bakery and Michael Jackson's personal chef back in the day. Niall has been hosting Sweet Bar Bakery Pop-Ups at Oakland's Art Murmur, the lively gallery-hopping art event held the first Friday of each month, but in a few weeks, his bricks-and-mortar bakery and coffee house will open on the corner of Broadway and 24th Street. The idea, he says, is to offer a little something for every taste, from classic sweets -- chocolate-dipped peanut butter cupcakes, for example, and peach upside down cakes -- to panini,

More sweetness: Opening day is nearing for Cake, pastry chef Andrea Quinn's new bakery in Lafayette's La Fiesta Square. The Chez Panisse alum is hoping to fling the doors open in time for the Lafayette Art and Wine Festival (Sept. 15-16; www.lafayettefestival.com). You'll find the new sweet shop in the space formerly occupied by Tea Cake at 35 Lafayette Circle; Facebook.com/cakelafayette. (This is vastly sweeter news than the sad closure last week of one of our favorite bakeries, Denise Vickers' Walnut Creek Baking Company.)

Send your Bay Area restaurant tips to food editor Jackie Burrell, jburrell@bayareanewsgroup.com.