Fresh bread?

1st_streeter

I usually get the baguettes and other loaves at places like Key Food and Union Market where they are brought in from elsewhere. Where can I get a loaf fresh out of the oven around here?

livetotravel

I just walked past a place on 5th Ave - maybe around 3rd or 4th (wasn't looking, just strolin') - new bakery that will be doing everything on-premises.

scarlett

Doesn't that French bakery on 7th and 9th make their own bread?

brooke lynn knight

Livetotravel, did you mean Brooklyn Bread on 5th Av & 6th St?

Looks like it might be good... it's taking its sweet time opening, though.

longtimesloper

I can't recommend them enough-it's a bit of a hike and a tiny place, but, Lopez Bakery on 5th Avenue and 18th Street makes their own breads right there-big selection of them too.

belzjm

trois pommes on 5th i great.

can't recall the cross street.

near-ish to al di la....

veets

Brooke Lynn Knight wrote: Livetotravel, did you mean Brooklyn Bread on 5th Av & 6th St?

Looks like it might be good... it's taking its sweet time opening, though.

I am looking to this opening with open arms.

I hope the bread is wonderful..
I miss uprising on 9th st and 7th ave... the only place I could buy real rye bread with no seeds!

1st_streeter

Brooke Lynn Knight wrote: Brooklyn Bread on 5th Av & 6th St.

Looked it up - it's a Carroll Gardens sandwich place. So they're coming to the Slope. S'long as they sell warm baguettes...

http://www.yelp.com/biz/brooklyn-bread-cafe-brooklyn

violet

I agree with LongTimeSloper - Lopez!
Raisin walnut bread, toasted, with butter. Mmm.
And they have some interesting pastries, too.

1st_streeter

Does anyone know if Fairway bakes its own? I've had a delicious cinnamon bread from there.

veets

I haven't pursued Lopez since they moved from 5th ave and 8th street. At that time they baked 24/7 because they were the wholesaler, supplying retail establishments. One of my sons knew when all those wonderful muffins and breads came out of the oven in the middle of the nights and would be there to "save" them. Wonderful memories of corn muffins in the night in those years and those walnut breads. But... even before they moved from the original location they stopped being opened all the time.. Question... where they are now.... are there only set hours for retail business or can you wander by any time in the night and get whatever they just baked??

violet

Veets - I remember them on 5th and 8th. The little kids would slice the bread by tossing the loaf up into the huge slicer, then hang on the handle, feet dangling off the ground, to force the blades down. So cute!
They're open now 6am - 8pm. Sometimes 9pm.

sprite

I miss Uprising too. I loved their seeded batard, and that chocolate cranberry bread was wonderful. I was really sad when they closed.

brooke lynn knight

Oh, that Kalamata loaf that Uprising used to make... saints preserve us... and their granola utterly blew away any commercial granola I ever had. I just don't know why they closed down. They seemed to be doing a brisk business up until the very end...

new2hood

Fairway makes an awesome baguette. Unfortunately, Sweet Melissa's baguette is shockingly awful, and the place on the east side of 7th avenue around 8th street has a really bad baguette as well.

livetotravel

Brooke Lynn Knight wrote: Livetotravel, did you mean Brooklyn Bread on 5th Av & 6th St?

Looks like it might be good... it's taking its sweet time opening, though.

Yep - that's it. I talked with the owner who was putting finishing touches on the interior and made him swear to me that there were ovens in the back

longtimesloper

Lopez Bakery
645 5th Ave (between 18th & 19th Streets)
Brooklyn, NY 11215
(718) 965-0289


They not only make great breads, but, they made my youngest child's birthday cake 2 years running and everyone at the party was asking where I got it from and was shocked at the great price! Not sure what there actual hours are, open until 9 pm sounds about right. Though, I believe I have wondered by later than that and someone has been in there.

MOD

Lopez bakery also make delicious mexican sweet breads. =P~

pastoralia

Lopez...great place, family run (father, mother, daughters) and they often have homemade empenadas which are delicious.

Yeah, that place on 6th and 6th is taking its time...let's go already.

1st_streeter

I've been reading great things about Mazzola at Union and Henry.

http://nymag.com/listings/stores/mazzola_bakery/

Might be worth the trek down Union.

MOD

OH YEA! Mazzola has delicious bread, but go early or it's all gone by afternoon. Try the Lard Bread, it's simply heaven.

flux

Subject: Fresh Bread

A bread place is opening up on 5th and 5th.

old time brooklyn

Brooklyn Bread. Pretty good product but wow, lousy service.

1st_streeter

I've already been to Brooklyn Bread. The loaf I got didn't seem that fresh though. Next time I want to get their chocolate bread -- I tried a sample and it was yummy.

brooklynpotter

if you're looking for bread, make this (a 4 year old could):

http://steamykitchen.com/blog/2007/09/10/no-knead-bread-revisited/

brooklynpotter

if you're looking for bread, make this (a 4 year old could):

http://steamykitchen.com/blog/2007/09/10/no-knead-bread-revisited/

veets

Old Time Brooklyn wrote: Brooklyn Bread. Pretty good product but wow, lousy service.

i thought the service was just fine this evening when I went in there for the forst time to buy pastries. We had 5 people with us and were going home to make coffee and eat the pastries. there was a big assortment and quite expensive... but bottom line.. nothing was better than mediocre.

brooklynpotter

i miss that place--what was it called, it's now brooklyn industries on 9th street/7th ave.

shishkab

brooklynpotter wrote: i miss that place--what was it called, it's now brooklyn industries on 9th street/7th ave.

uprising bakery?

brooklynpotter

yes! they were closed by the board of health... but the bread was amazing.

jeffrey

brooklynpotter,

Uprising on Court in Cobble Hill disappeared as well at roughly the same time, so I am guessing that matters may have run much deeper than DOH violations from any one place.

Suddenly there were a few of these Uprising places, and then just a suddenly, none.

Oh well.