Bakeries

Bakeries are coming back on the scene filling a niche for the morning crowd (quiches or bagels), the lunch crowd and providing pastries for restaurants. Some of these are syndicated chains such as Au Bonne Pain that offers several types of bread and soups and others are focused on the restaurant itself like the Amphora bakery in Vienna, VA – one of the best in the east coast USA that provides incredible pastries for the Amphora restaurant, a 24 hour Mediterranean cuisine restaurant found on RT 123. There are many variations of ethnic breads and these are blending with offerings of coffee houses, tea houses, fast food places, and restaurants throughout the USA.

Some bakeries, for instance, are distinctly French and offer sit down places where you can listen to classical music, smell the good bread, and sip on espresso while you comment on the newspaper and make the best business deals of the day with you clients. But when it comes to serious business – restaurants are a necessity, where you are often greeted with specialties from the bakery immediately after you sit down. This is because restaurateurs know that the smell of bread stimulates the appetite.