Ambitious and Fancy New Bakery-Cafe Parachute Debuts at Ferry Building

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/09/04/ambitious-and-fancy-new-bakery-cafe-parachute-debuts-at-ferry-building/A new bakery and cafe from the team behind Michelin-starred Sorrel, specializing in glistening viennoiserie and cheffed-up twists on classic French pastries, had its debut Thursday morning at the Ferry Building. It's called Parachute, and the signature pastry is the Parachute Chocolate Entremet, a small, five-layered chocolate pastry in the shape of a parachute — or a downturned croissant, as the bakery's logo suggests — that shows off the fine-dining pastry skills of co-owner and chef Nasir Armar. Armar, who grew up working in his father's bakery in Chennai, India, was the pastry chef at ROOH and Sorrel before he departed Sorrel in late 2023 to become