Pastry chef Natasha Goellner on her shop on the Plaza and why a little color never hurts
Natasha Goellner walks around the counter, hand extended, her blond hair pulled back and a smile on her face. It’s shortly after 8:40 a.m., and she’s smiling because she slept in today. Her weekdays usually start somewhere around 4 a.m.
Goellner is the pastry chef and co-owner (alongside her mother, Vicki) of Natasha’s Mulberry & Mott (10573 Mission). Her long-sleeve black T-shirt and Crocs stand out amid the colorful desserts that fill the pastry cases of her Mission Farms bakery. Pink and white rectangular blocks of marshmallows rest above chocolate tarts and croissants filled with goat cheese.
“I don’t want everything to be brown,” Goellner explains. “You walk into a French pastry shop, and it’s always so brown. I wanted it to be beautiful.”
