Pastry Kitchen

New Executive Pastry Chef Bill Yosses in 2007 (ABC News)

Mezzanine Pantry

The Mezzanine Pantry, or Pastry Kitchen, is space that allows kitchen staff to prepare additional parts of meals and deliver them, via the dumbwaiters, elevator, and spiral staircase down through the Butler's Pantry to the State Dining Room or, via the elevator, up to Family Dining Room. The space was added in 1992-93.

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Pastry Chef Roland Mesnier preparing for a state dinner in 2001 (White House - Tina Hagar)

Pastry Chef Roland Mesnier around 2001 (Roland Mesnier)

Pantry in the mezzanine level, view to the south, 1992 (HABS)

Mezzanine Pantry view to the north, 1992 (HABS)

The first floor in an oblique drawing—
The mezzanine doors and floors are highlighted in yellow (larger image)