Our mission is to have the best craft bread in NYC Jim Lahey, the owner of Sullivan St Bakery, originally planned to spend his life as a sculptor.
His passion for art and natural beauty took him to Italy, where he found a new medium for that sculptor's urge: bread. Inspired by the bakers of Tuscany and Rome, he returned to New York City determined that the "peasant" bread of the Italian countryside could find a home in America. In 1994, he started Sullivan St Bakery in Soho, with little more than the wild yeast he cultivated by hand in Italy
His passion for art and natural beauty took him to Italy, where he found a new medium for that sculptor's urge: bread. Inspired by the bakers of Tuscany and Rome, he returned to New York City determined that the "peasant" bread of the Italian countryside could find a home in America. In 1994, he started Sullivan St Bakery in Soho, with little more than the wild yeast he cultivated by hand in Italy
Operating as usual
don’t know about you guys, but we are SO happy to say goodbye to 2022 and to get back to bread.
here are our hours this weekend:
in Hell’s Kitchen
New Year’s Eve: 7:30AM - 2PM
New Year’s Day: 9:00AM - 4PM
in Chelsea
New Year’s Eve: 8:30AM - 3PM
New Year’s Day: 9:00AM - 4PM
thank you friends near and far, and a happy and healthy 2023 to you all 🥂
well, that was short-lived. fire in an oven part and we’re closed in HK again. sorry folks.
passed the DOB inspection!!! now we’re just waiting for to come turn on our gas
meanwhile we’re learning to bake more and more in the little electric oven 🥖🍪🫒
guys, we have this shiny new green gas booster in place but we need to come inspect it and approve it so we can turn our gas on and bake some bread again. the latest hurdle in this long race, aka day #26 in the basement
we cannot believe what beautiful bread we can make in this tiny, tiny little electric deck oven in our kitchen. right now, we’re making ciabatta for our wholesale customers, cornetti, brioche and more for our retail cafe, loaves of bread when we can, and of course…rosemary focaccia for every Sweetgreen in the tristate area. 😅
even more hardworking than this little oven that could, though, are the phenomenal baking and kitchen teams that are squeezing into the kitchen in shifts to manually load doughs into this little oven and figure out how she works. somewhat different than our usual bread ovens!
everything is still at 6s and 7s right now while we wait for the final pieces of this puzzle to come together - oven parts, compressor hookup, gas pressure valves, etc., - but our baking team is 💯
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well, we don’t have much right now, but we have ~ mortadella ~ and what else do you need?!
we also have prosciutto on ciabatta, brioche rolls, uovo brioche, and raspberry jam bomboloni
our bread setters are still empty, our bread ovens are cold and quiet, and the floors in our baking space are alarmingly clean. but we are all squeezing into the kitchen to get as much out of that little oven as we can.
in the meantime, the Chelsea cafe has even more, including, yes, pizza of all kinds - that’s at 236 9th Ave. for those looking for it, or on IG
see you soon
when life gives you lemons and the industrial services truck empties your silo of 20,000 pounds of flour to facilitate repairs, what is there to do but make really good hot chocolate?
thank you for all the kind messages, for coming in this week, for the cards and emails, and hi knitting club, welcome back 👋 and if you’re wondering what’s on the menu right now, it’s coffee drinks, including espresso and cold brew, juices, tea, hot apple cider, croissants, biscotti, and the best hot chocolate around. In the usual style, with marshmallows, plus:
- white chocolate peppermint
- milk chocolate cinnamon
- dark chocolate almond
It’s really good. Working on more pastries for tomorrow. 🤞
well, this week has been a little frustrating. our bread ovens are still down. we’re waiting on a rotary screw oil-free air compressor to arrive. we’re waiting for the control panel that manages our new gas booster to be finished. and we’re waiting for valves and pistons from by way of to arrive so that we can open our oven doors again. we’re cleaning and cleaning and taking apart the cafe to dry out the walls.
we’ll be back open on Monday in the cafe with coffee only for the moment, pending the oven repairs.
and if anyone in the meantime happens to have their hands on some extra fesco reduction valves (LFR 3/8 5M minis) or air valve terminals or air pistons (ADN 80-20s)….drop us a line! 🙂
Guys!! the little old Fornata oven in the kitchen is working!!! we are baking some focaccia right now and ciabatta soon while we wait for to send parts for our big bread ovens, both of which are down after massive water damage in the big flood. our cafe in Hell’s Kitchen is still closed 😔 while we deal with the water damage to the cafe walls but wholesale is in business thanks to the little Fornata that could, a lot of crazy logistics, and the amazing people
🙏🙏🙏🥖🥖🥖💛💛💛
what else could happen in the busiest week of the year with our main bakery shut down, with no power, baking equipment down for the count, our office out of commission, and half of our staff relocated to Chelsea with massive amounts of ingredients to bake what we can there out of a super small pizza oven? well….the DOH decided it was time for an inspection in Chelsea! 😂
with about 50 extra employees, thousands of pounds of bagged flour stacked ceiling high, and the middle of the Thanksgiving rush, our Chelsea manager is too busy to pose for a photo, so full disclosure this last one here - -> scroll through - - > of Vera is an old one. The ‘A’ is hot of the press though.
A huge thanks to all of our bakers and baristas and cooks and managers and porters working elbow to elbow around the clock in Chelsea, and most especially to Vera.
Stop by and see us there - we’ll be open Thanksgiving Day 8AM-2PM. 236 9th Ave, Chelsea.
Regular Chelsea hours after that - full info
what are we doing these days? digging down under the street to replace the pipe that connects the water main to the building. trying not to fall in the holes. spending lots of time in the basement figuring out what parts of our gas system need to be replaced. (still tackling that one, really; if anyone out there is an expert on addressing gas lines after extensive water exposure - please reach out!) baking some pizza bianca out of our little oven in Chelsea, and of course, we’ve been caravaning around the city picking up bread from some awesome, generous, and deeply kind fellow bakers like who are making room in their ovens to bake a little extra bread for our our wholesale customers. bakers. are. the. best. Thank you all. thanks for your support, everyone here, and wholesale customers, thank you for understanding that we are doing everything we can to get bread on your tables.
well, we spent Saturday cleaning up, drying out the bakery and scrubbing, and today finding ways to get as much bread for our wholesale customers as possible. we still don’t have power, water, or gas, but we do have a wonderful, heroic staff, REALLY generous fellow NYC bakeries, the nicest friends and neighbors, and so many gracious restaurant customers who are being so understanding about not having bread at the (gulp) busiest time of the year. we also have so many kind thoughts and well wishes from all of you. thank you so much. it really helps.
Our Chelsea store is open and we are baking as much as possible in the small oven there. More soon on the insanely kind bakeries helping us out with the rest.
hi everyone, we have a massive water leak here on 47th street - not sure yet if it’s a water main break or something else but we are flooded with nearly a foot of water and will be out of operation for several days. we will not be able to deliver to our wholesale customers, and our Hell’s Kitchen store will be closed for at least this weekend. soho is closed as well but we will be open in Chelsea with some items. thanks for your patience while we assess the damage and how to get everything back in order.
sare ~ whole wheat
we have biscotti
always sesamo
in ‘n out ↔️
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hello pies, goodbye schiacciata 👋🏾
making some pies over in Chelsea
baby sesame
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crostata di mele
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getting our doughs in a row
the best of carb on carb
it’s hot
true story
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sesame candela 🥖🥖🥖
fruits of the season 🍇🫐🐖
pizza pomodoro 🍅🍅🍅♥️
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now that’s a fettunta
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COMING 🔜
Sweet Soy Garlic Teriyaki Injected Burrata
With Fettunta &
You saw it here first! 💯
multigrani on deck
rainy day filone!
not just bread
Hell’s Kitchen - tell your favorite spots in the neighborhood! Voting closes at midnight tonight. (Tonight = Tuesday 9/20, folks). Link in our story.
(And if you don’t vote for us for best coffee shop…we hope our friends and neighbors down the way are not far from your thoughts - ☕️❤️🥖👩🏻🤝👨🏾😊)
carta di musica 🎻
disco dough 🪩
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chocolate-orange bread pudding 🍊🍞🍫
in Chelsea, Hell’s Kitchen and Soho
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a crumbly handful of dark chocolate & brioche 🍫
bread 💐
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the sicilian 💋🌶
tomato, onion & crushed red pepper
533 W 47th Street
New York, NY
10036
| Monday | 7:30am - 5pm |
| Tuesday | 7:30am - 5pm |
| Wednesday | 7:30am - 5pm |
| Thursday | 7:30am - 5pm |
| Friday | 7:30am - 5pm |
| Saturday | 7:30am - 5pm |
| Sunday | 7:30am - 5pm |
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Repost from @jimlaheyssb • A loaf is born : In 2013 a company named @sweetgreen approached my bakery requesting a naturally leavened whole wheat bread for their first NYC store and….We named this new bread Saré ; it’s a shortened version of “Casareccio,”which in Italian means home made. Today we bake this delicious loaf along with our signature focaccia for 40 of their locations in and around NYC. We are so proud to do business with this brand which supports local artisanal producers. #sweetgreen #nyc #naturallyleavened #trucciosaré #sullivanstreetbakery
Repost from @coffeecakescafe • Starting the week with freshly baked breads from @sullivanstreetbakery sounds perfect to me! 🥖🥐🍞 . A couple of days ago I stumbled upon a bread delivery from Sullivan Street Bakery which I shared via story. It was tied to the doors of @sttropezwinebar and that image stuck with me. Fresh baked bread just waiting at your door!! 🥰 Thats heaven!! 😋 Have a happy Monday everyone!😊☀️ . . . . . #stopmotion #newyorkbakery #nybaker #cafehopping #sohonyc #westvillagelife #thisisnewyorkcity #stopmotionanimation #timeoutnewyork #chasing_facades #picturesofnewyork #made_in_ny #cornersofnewyork #newyorkgram #prettycitynewyork #newyorkarea #facade #facadelovers #streetsofnewyork #newyorkrealestate #nyrealestate #picame #newyorkcitylife #icapture_nyc #coffeecakescafe #storefront #storefrontcollective
bread songs #panebrutto #hotbread
li’l bit of tuscany in nyc. new york grapes with anise seeds, sugar, and olive oil for our own schiacciata d’uva 🍇 #baking #dough #schiacciata
who doesn’t love to stick their fingers in the dough? Here’s @jimlaheyssb making a pizza bianca, which has to be the best way to stick your fingers in the dough #pizzabianca #dough #bakingfun
Strawberry gazpacho with fennel, ginger and chilies!!THIS WEEK in Hell’s Kitchen and Chelsea - part of Eat for Good week with our partners @foodbank4nyc. #gazpacho #feedall #strawberries #stillsummer
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