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Razava Bread Co. Old world bread for the new world.

Fall menu has entered the chat. 🍂We’ve been busy in the kitchen, and our new fall/winter menu is officially here! A litt...
10/16/2026

Fall menu has entered the chat. 🍂

We’ve been busy in the kitchen, and our new fall/winter menu is officially here! A little cozy, a little unexpected, and plenty of reasons to come hungry.

Here’s what’s new:

🍎 Spiced Apple Butter Bagel — Apple pie energy, socially acceptable for lunch.

🥣 Marak Katom Soup — Butternut squash, carrot, roasted red pepper, and a little kick.

🍄 Melty Mushroom Toast — A knife-and-fork grilled cheese for grown-ups.

🥯 The J-B.E.C. — A bacon-free B.E.C., reimagined the Razava way with a Jerusalem bagel, egg, and two cheeses.

🌶️ Egg Salad Bagel — Our take on egg salad, with candied cowboy peppers, zhug, and pickles.

🫓 Hummus + Mezze — Slow-cooked hummus, all the pickles, and plenty to scoop with.

A few new favorites in the making, and just in time for sweater weather.

Come get acquainted. Available now at 685 Grand Ave. in St. Paul. 💛



Spiced Apple Butter Bagel

A socially acceptable way to eat apple pie anytime. 🍎

Open-faced on a bagel: spiced apple butter, labneh whipped cream, and oat streusel, with a little preserved lemon to keep it bright.

New on our fall/winter menu at 685 Grand.

Marak Katom

Orange you glad soup season is here? 🧡

Marak katom is Hebrew for “orange soup.” Ours is butternut squash, carrot, and roasted red peppers, with Aleppo pepper for a little kick and butter and cream to smooth it out.

Smaller or bigger. Add Bread + Butters if you want something to dunk.

Egg Salad Bagel

An egg salad sandwich that went off and got interesting.

Open-faced: egg salad, candied cowboy peppers, zhug, pickles, and onion. Sweet, hot, sharp, and still comfort food.

Half or whole, at 685 Grand.

Melty Mushroom Toast

Knife-and-fork grilled cheese, for grown-ups.

Roasted mushrooms and melted cheese on our sourdough, with spiced walnut aioli and a pile of fresh arugula on top.

On the fall/winter menu now.

Hummus + Mezze

For the love of hummus, and everything that goes with it.

Slow-cooked hummus, assorted pickles, and Buckwheat Pitas for scooping. The small board serves 1–2. The big one adds roasted mushrooms and a Jerusalem bagel, and serves 2–4.

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Consider this our version of a “last call” for the SLT (this season). We’ll be introducing a new menu next week and the ...
10/09/2026

Consider this our version of a “last call” for the SLT (this season). We’ll be introducing a new menu next week and the SLT will be taking a well deserved vacation.

Stop in this weekend for one last taste before it’s gone! 🥪

Pumpkin season is here, and this week’s special is fully embracing fall. 🍂Our Pumpkin Ricotta Toast starts with pumpkin ...
10/07/2026

Pumpkin season is here, and this week’s special is fully embracing fall. 🍂

Our Pumpkin Ricotta Toast starts with pumpkin whipped ricotta on sourdough, then gets topped with autumn-spiced carrots, pumpkin seeds, candied pistachios, pomegranate seeds, and fresh herbs.

It’s warm and spiced, creamy and crunchy, with a little sweetness and plenty of brightness…basically all the flavors you’re craving now that there’s a chill in the air. 🎃

And yes, for those of you who love our Sunday Morning Toast with whipped ricotta this is for you (just pumpkin whipped instead of peanut butter whipped). 😋

Come savor the flavors of fall while it’s here.

We talk a lot about slow fermentation, but there’s another ingredient doing a lot of heavy lifting in our bread: water!W...
10/02/2026

We talk a lot about slow fermentation, but there’s another ingredient doing a lot of heavy lifting in our bread: water!

We use a lot of it…more than is particularly convenient, actually. But that extra water is a big part of what gives our bread its flavor, texture, keeping quality, and digestibility.

So, why make bread this wet?

Let’s get into it. 💧



And yes, it comes straight from the city of St. Paul.

Once that water is in the dough, it keeps working. It becomes steam that helps the loaf spring in the oven. It helps starches gelatinize into crumb. It keeps the surface flexible while the loaf expands. And plenty of it stays behind.

That last bit is important: it’s part of why the inside of our bread stays tender instead of drying out the minute it cools.

Flour gets most of the attention, but water is the second-largest ingredient in our dough by weight. Together, flour and water make up about 99% of it.

An 85% hydration level is what we consider home base for most our hearth loaves. (That’s 85 grams of water for every 100 grams of flour).

And that number isn’t absolute. Flour changes with the harvest, season, humidity, grain and even how long the bag has been sitting. Our bakers adjust accordingly.

Because when you give grain enough water and enough time you let it become what it’s supposed to become.

High hydration contributes to the custardy, tender crumb we’re after. It helps bread stay good longer. It plays a role in developing those deep reddish-brown crusts. And it helps the starches in the grain fully gelatinize during baking.

It’s harder bread to make. We think it’s much better bread to eat.

So why isn’t all bread made this way?

Because wet dough is a pain in the butt to work with, especially for machines.

As bakeries industrialized, firmer, drier dough became useful because it could move cleanly through dividers, belts, and other equipment. The industry has a phrase for it: efficient machinability.

Great for machines. But not our kind of bread.

That’s the simplest way to think about bread: fermented, cooked grain. Water has a job in both.

During a

A fan favorite has made its return as this week’s special! On the plate: Razava House Loaf, fresh garlic, Campari tomato...
10/01/2026

A fan favorite has made its return as this week’s special!

On the plate: Razava House Loaf, fresh garlic, Campari tomato, EVOO, cracked black pepper, and dill

Available 9/30-10/4

Three loaves. Three very different personalities. If you’ve ever stood at the counter wondering which one is coming home...
09/25/2026

Three loaves. Three very different personalities.

If you’ve ever stood at the counter wondering which one is coming home with you, consider this your cheat sheet. All sourdough, all made with Midwestern grain, all very much their own thing.



The one we built the bakery around. Up to a dozen flours can make their way into a House Loaf, each there for a reason. Sweet, balanced, just tangy enough. Made to be the loaf you reach for every day. 🌾

For the people who ask us for the sour sourdough. Our whitest loaf, with a crackly crust, open crumb and more tang than anything else we bake. Simple ingredients, lots of fermentation, very good with butter. 🧈

This one’s for the bread people. Nearly 100% whole grain, deeply fermented and built to get better over a few days. It starts malty and sweet, then gets nutty, citrusy and complex. Buy a half, or commit to the full four-pounder. We respect either decision. 🔥

09/16/2026

Hosting made easy with our most noshable pre-order cateting options, now available on Toast! Use the link in our bio to schedule your catering order for pick-up.

Need delivery? Let’s talk. [email protected] 💙🥯

Hey folks — thanks for all of your support over the summer. It’s been amazing meeting so many new faces in our cafe and ...
09/10/2026

Hey folks — thanks for all of your support over the summer. It’s been amazing meeting so many new faces in our cafe and at the farmers markets, and finding our bread on the shelves at new places. More new faces means... we need to make more bread! (Swipe to keep reading)



We’ve heard your feedback about us running out of your favorite things when you come in. So as we turn toward fall, we’re making a few changes to our bake schedule in order to keep up.

Our bakery is ... not huge ... so we’re giving more of our time and oven space to the breads you love most. More bagels and more hearth loaves (House Loaf, San Francisco, Porridge, Miche) are coming soon!

For now, we are rotating-out three of our daily features: Baguette de Tradition, Focaccia, and Pane Francese. We love them too. (Don’t worry: Friday Challah isn’t going anywhere.)

We’re also going to be rolling out new ways to pre-order your favorite bread, and find out what we have in stock before you come in. And our fall cafe menu is coming next month! We’re really excited about what fall looks like at Razava. And to everyone heading into the High Holidays, wishing you a sweet new year.

A little something sweet for the season. 🍎This week’s special brings together apple butter and creamy ricotta on our sou...
09/09/2026

A little something sweet for the season. 🍎

This week’s special brings together apple butter and creamy ricotta on our sourdough toast, finished with spiced walnuts and fresh orange zest.

With the High Holidays around the corner and fall not far behind, apples felt like the right place to start. Sweet and rich, balanced with creamy ricotta, warm spice, and a little brightness from the orange.

Available this week at Razava. Come try it while it’s on the menu.

09/03/2026

Use the link in our bio to place your catering or pick-up order ahead of time!

Address

685 Grand Avenue
Saint Paul, MN
55105

Opening Hours

Wednesday 7am - 3pm
Thursday 7am - 3pm
Friday 7am - 7pm
Saturday 7am - 7pm

Telephone

+17633380853

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