- Get to Know Kirsten Denney, owner of The Exercise Coach Cleveland Park
- Meet the owners of Saku Saku Flakerie, Yuri & Jason Oberbillig
- In Honor of World Refugee Day: Meet Hamid Kerim, Owner of Dolan Uyghur Restaurant
- Meet Dr. Steven Schneid, Owner of Uptown Vision
- Meet Pam and Araya, owners of Paragon Thai
- Meet Vanessa Lim, Owner of Spices Asian Restaurant
- Meet Liz Winchell, owner of All Fired Up!
- Phuong Phan, Lavish Nail Spa
- Meet Rukiye, owner of Imaj Salon!
- Bob of Cleveland Park Valet
- Salim of Fresh Med: From Algiers to Cleveland Park
- Mark, Atomic Billiards
- Jury Meneses, 3321 Bistro
- Pandemic Pivoting: What it Means to be Action-Oriented in 2020
- Peter Balish, Cleveland Park Bar & Grill
Interview by Amy Henderson

Saku Saku Flakerie is the creation of baker Yuri Oberbillig and her husband Jason, a non-baker who acts as general manager. They met ten years ago in Kobe, Japan, where Yuri was enrolled in cooking school. She had once dreamed of being a fashion designer, but baking put her on a different life path when she discovered the joy of getting her hands into flour, butter, sugar, yeast, and more butter. From messy mixtures, she lets her imagination run wild to create amazing pastries and breads in various colors, shapes, and toppings.
Yuri worked as a baker in Vancouver, Canada, before she and Jason moved to DC five years ago. She worked as a baker at the late-lamented Maison Kayser bakery on F Street, and then at A Baked Joint. In September 2020, she and Jason opened Saku Saku Flakerie as a storefront bakery in Cleveland Park’s Al Volo Restaurant.
A French bakery with Japanese seasonal infusions, the Saku Saku Flakerie features buttery pastries that definitely live up to their name. Yuri’s design vision remains the driving force of her work–she loves to create new pastries, and is always learning. She also encourages the two other bakers that work with her to create new pastries.

Her personal favorite pastry? Konign amann–a sugar-layered carmelized croissant.
Saku Saku Flakerie is such a success that Yuri and Jason recently opened a second pastry shop in the National Building Museum!
Visit Saku Saku Flakerie at 3417 Connecticut Ave NW. Hours are Tues-Sun, 8AM-3PM (closed Mondays). Check out their website at www.SakuSakuFlakerie.com.
Great article. Thanks. Quite informative.
The best pastry in town! Joyce Stern