Savory Croissants are Going Way Beyond Ham and Cheese

After the Cronut, the cruffin, and every other sweet version, savory croissants are finally the center of croissant innovation

For me, the light bulb moment was the steak frites croissant. I was scrolling Instagram when the golden brown pastry popped onto my phone screen, a hunk of steak poking out from between its lifted layers and a few peppered fries sitting on a smear of sauce on top. I couldn’t look away, transfixed by this creation from Houston croissanterie Shakkar. I realized that savory croissants across the country had escaped all limits of tradition.

In the social media age, croissants have been the proving ground for viral food. The Cronut started it all, and then came the croissant cubes, the cruffin, the cereal, the Suprême, and so on. “We will never reach peak croissant,” the New York Times declared in 2023. And still, over the years, I, not a sweets person, have looked at the offerings at so many bakeries and found myself unsatisfied — despite the abundance of interestingly flavored, intricately topped sweet croissants, the savory ones still skewed a little snoozy.

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