New Cakes & Ale Bakery Will Sell Fresh Bread
Decatur Metro | June 14, 2010 | 3:03 pmCakes & Ale co-owner Kristin Allin’s recent comment in response to many of your comments about the restaurant’s planned bakery deserves its own post.
Yes, we’re still working out some details but we will have fresh bread for sale and also sandwiches on our house made bread for lunch. We are very excited about the bakery and the expanded cooking capabilities this will give Cakes and Ale with the addition of a wood burning oven!
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YES YES YES YES!
I would love to have fresh bread nearby!
The Allins can pretty much go ahead and start spending the $ I’ll regularly be dropping at this bakery, in addition to my fairly regular visits to the restaurant. While I’ve always liked the farmer’s market bread well enough, I’ve long wanted something more. Like this.
Publix bakery at North Decatur Road bakes good fresh bread of many kinds every day. Panera on North Decatur Road near the Emory campus has wonderful fresh bread baking every day too. And Your Decatur Farmers Market bakes fresh delicious breads of MANY varieties every day. Are those stores near enough to your location? I guess I don’t understand the dimensions of “nearby”…
Chira, there’s bread and then there is BREAD.
For me, there is a world of difference between Publix bread and say, Alon’s. I haven’t had Panera bread in a while. YDFM bread is decent, but nothing to really write home about.
Thumbs up for Alon’s bread (of course), but that is nowhere near where I live. Panera bread is terrific. I like Publix and YDFM breads very much too. I am an absolute bread fanatic, so I know what you mean by BREAD. :-))
Sawicki’s has Alon’s baguettes, as well as their sweet baked goods.
Do we have an ETA on the C&A bakery?
Sawicki’s is a lifesaver with those Alon’s baguettes. Get them all the time.
“Early fall” is the ETA.
Look up the Great Harvest Bread Company, off Lavista, I think. They have outstanding baked goods.
Yes, that IS a great bakery. It is a little tricky to find, as I remember, on the backside of a
shopping strip. But good, VERY good breads etc. Thanks for reminding me of that one.
Completely agree about YDFM bread just being decent. Why oh why can’t it be good bread?
YDFM baguettes should be used as a gag prop for a soggy baseball bat. They are about as dense as a piece of hickory, but the limp crust appears to have been painted on instead of actually baked. They claim to use organic flour, which is even sadder. Those farmers cared for that wheat, and they must be so disappointed to see it turned into those pitiful loaves.
I’m convinced they have one recipe for all their white breads and just change the form they bake them in.
I’ve had communion wafers with better flavor and texture.
Alon’s, the Bread Garden, Holeman& Finch, Buckhead Bread Company–those are bakeries. Decatur deserves something of that caliber, and I have no doubt that the Allin’s are bringing it.
I’m going to camp out, like an Apple geek waiting for the iPad.
I’m with you on the bread, Daren. While I’m a bigger fan of YDFM than many posters here, their baked goods have never impressed me. Leaden, in my opinion.
Daren—could not agree more about YDFM’s baguettes.
If C&A will produce delicious, authentic french baguettes on par with Star Provisions across town—my tummy will be happy and my car will have lower mileage.
I wonder if she’ll bake old-fashioned salt rising bread. You don’t see that at all anymore.
Or hardtack! No one’s sold that since whaling was outlawed.
It could be called “Whaler’s Delight”.
Hmmm. Delightful carbs and a shorter walk to them.
This is not going to bode well for my waistline.
*doing the hop-skip-pony-kick dance of joy*
The Mercantile on Clifton next to SanFrancisco Coffee has AMAZING baguettes. THey are so freaking good that if you are late sometimes they will be all sold out.
Just a note for the bread lovers.
Actually, it was stupid to even post this and let all you clowns in on the secret. 😉
Not stupid at all, Left Wing. Didn’t the Mercantile do a spread-the-word campaign recently saying that they needed an uptick in traffic if they were gonna remain open? The more the better!
I am hooked on Bake Shop on Peachtree in midtown. I really hope C&A has something similar.
Another kind of bread — why is it that I can’t find ANY commercial bakery that makes cornbread? Not corn muffins, with sugar. Just common CORNBREAD (preferably buttermilk based). I guess I’m just too lazy to make my own often enough, but if I could buy it ready-made, I surely would (as long as it’s not sugared…). And don’t even talk about putting sugar in biscuits – yuck!
Does the Mercantile bake their own, or bring them in? I know Lynn over at Sawicki’s brings in Alon’s. There’s a lot of time and equipment involved in baking your own.
Oh I am so excited for good bread in Decatur. The YDFM has terrible bread – in fact the only good bread currently in Decatur seems to be at Publix, but even then it is not as good as other breads people have mentioned in the above posts (e.g. Alon’s for baguettes)