For the better part of a decade, the answer — regretfully — was no.
Ever since Esther’s Kitchen opened in January 2018, folks have wanted to purchase the housemade sourdough. And they could — if they sat down to lunch or dinner and ordered the bread course. But diners couldn’t buy the bread in the way they wanted — to take home.
But that is changing.
“We are now finally at the point where we can do this,” James Trees, Esther’s chef-owner, said of retail sales of sourdough and other baked goods. “And we’re excited to be offering this for people up early on summer mornings.”
On June 20, Trees and his corporate pastry chef, Jake Yergensen, will launch a bakery pop-up at Bar Boheme, Trees’ modern French restaurant at 1401 S. Main St. downtown. The pop-up will feature Esther’s sourdough, Parisian-style baguettes from Bar Boheme, the focaccia from Al Solito Posto (another Trees restaurant), and a rotating selection of croissants, pastries and other baked items from across the chef’s restaurants.
The pop-up will run from 8 to 11 a.m. the third Saturday of every month. Other than a brief period during the pandemic when Trees sold baked goods because Nevada restaurants were closed to in-person dining, the pop-up is the first time the chef has offered breads and other baked items from any of his restaurants.
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