Christina Tosi’s first bakery in D.C., a location of Milk Bar at CityCenterDC, was a homecoming for the Springfield native, who says she only left the D.C. area because there weren’t enough opportunities in the restaurant scene when she was starting out.

… She recently closed her first funding round with RSE Ventures and plans to use that to grow the brand’s physical footprint, its e-commerce site and to figure out how to get more Milk Bar products into the hands of home bakers.