About
We are an Asian woman-owned bakery and market located just west of downtown Ann Arbor, Michigan. We share our shop with Strider Coffee Stop, another small local business that provides coffee and espresso beverages.
The bakery side offers a rotating menu of Asian American pastries that blend together Asian and Western flavors and techniques while highlighting the seasonality of the Midwest.
The market side offers small batch prepared foods like frozen dumplings, sauces, seasonings, and chili crisp that are made in house. We also have retail shelves stocked with Asian pantry staples to help you cook at home!
We periodically offer special pop up food events and baking and cooking classes.
Giving Back
10% of our profit goes to two local charities, The Hope Clinic and Ozone House, as well as other charities as needs arise.
Our Story
Rachel Liu Martindale is a self-taught baker and has loved food for as long as she can remember. She loves experimenting with creative flavors, voraciously reading cookbooks and food science articles, and pushing the limits of how much sugar she can take out of a recipe to get the coveted "not too sweet" remark. She is a materials science engineer by degree, but hated working in the corporate world and quit her job to work in the food and beverage industry.
After completing an internship at renowned Sweet Heather Anne, Rachel made her first professional cake in the spring of 2017 and Milk + Honey was born out of her dinky Ypsilanti apartment. It remained a side business for a few years with cakes and pastries being made in the evenings and weekends. After several months of doing weekly pop ups at Bløm Meadworks in downtown Ann Arbor, Milk + Honey moved to its first commercial location in Milan, MI in January 2020. There, it weathered the COVID-19 pandemic and many other ups and downs.
After 5 years of business, Milk + Honey rebranded to Q Bakehouse & Market, keeping cakes in the background and expanding to offer Asian-inspired pastries and foods. This change reflected Rachel’s journey of rediscovering her Taiwanese-Chinese heritage and wanting others to experience the delicious food of her culture. This rebrand also led to the business opening its first brick and mortar location in west Ann Arbor in Feb 2024.
Now that you’re up-to-date, we hope you’ll join us on the journey!