25/08/2026
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FROM CDO, TO THE WORLD - AND BACK HOME.
Farine & Vanilla Bean began long before we opened.
It began with a girl from Cagayan de Oro who loved food enough to leave home, travel the world, and learn how to make it exceptionally well.
For more than a decade, Toyang studied, worked, and honed her craft across Europe, Sydney, and Melbourne - from studying patisserie at Le Cordon Bleu, one of the world’s most renowned culinary schools, to learning firsthand in artisan sourdough bakeries and patisseries.
She learned from different kitchens, different cultures, and different ways of doing things.
But through it all, one dream stayed the same:
To bring everything she learned back home.
To create the kind of bakery we ourselves would love to walk into.
Bread with a beautiful crust, a tender crumb, and deep, developed flavour.
Doughnuts that are pillowy, generous, and seriously good.
Pastries made with such care that you find yourself thinking about them again the next day.
Behind every bite is more than a decade of learning and craft - real sourdough, long fermentation, quality ingredients, and the patience to let time do what shortcuts cannot.
That is why Farine & Vanilla Bean exists.
To bring a world of experience home and turn it into something of our own — something honest, handcrafted, and genuinely delicious, made right here in Cagayan de Oro.
Not simply a bakery that happens to be in CDO.
A bakery born from CDO.
Something we hope our city will be proud to call its own.
And this is only the beginning.........
