‘Dig in’ – eat pastries and buy houseplants at Fil-Ams’ Botanical Bakeshop in Portland

Botanical Bakeshop at 4981 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland has tables and chair spaces for snacking and browsing plant selections. WEBSITE

Two Filipina American entrepreneurs who run a combination bakery and plant shop in the Woodstock neighborhood of Portland, Oregon were able to launch their business with help from a GoFundMe drive.

Daphne’s Botanicals, a houseplants and gifts shop and Shop Halo Halo, a Filipino bakery that was once as a pop-up, share space in Botanical Bakeshop, which opened mid-July after raising more than $35,000 via crowdfunding.

Pastry chef Geleen Abenoja serves Filipino baked goods like pan de sal and cassava cakes as well as fusion calamansi blueberry cheesecake and ube cookies. SCREENGRAB

Pastry chef Geleen Abenoja serves Filipino baked goods like pan de sal and cassava cakes as well as fusion calamansi blueberry cheesecake and ube cookies.

Her business partner, Daphne Peters, sells plants and offers houseplant design services and plant workshops.

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According to Portland Monthly, Shop Halo Halo is “one of just two brick-and-mortar Filipino bakeries in Portland, and the only one on the east side. It’s part of a growing wave of Filipino food launches in Portland, including food cart Baon Kainan, former pop-up bar Sunrice, coffee shop Kalesa, and Beaverton’s Magna Kubo.”

Botanical Bakeshop at 4981 SE Woodstock Blvd, Portland has tables and chair spaces for snacking and browsing plant selections.