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Journeyed to North Tonawanda to pick up a holiday order from Anastasia’s Artisan Bread on Christmas Eve.
Anastasia’s bakery is exactly the kind of business we all need to support, a small, family-owned place with the heart and soul of the proprietor oozing from every loaf. She’s even eco-friendly – you will leave with a loaf of bread folded carefully in brown paper, no plastic.
Good service is not quick. Neither is good coffee. The bread is fantastic. Lots of what is sold in our stores is remarkably inferior. Anastasia's bread could make it in Roundwood Stores or Kinvarra Market in Ireland.
Overwinter is the coffee and is fantastic. The first time I stopped I grabbed a rosemary parmesan baguette. It was gone before I made it to my office.
Her bakery is at 236 Zimmerman Street and open 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. daily.
As long as we are supporting small businesses, my friend Andrew Galarneau, who jumped ship from the Buffalo News rather than suffer the continuing torment of Lee Enterprise’s vulture capitalism. He started over about a year ago at Substack. You can read his work here. Please pay for a subscription. https://fourbites.substack.com/
I tipped him off to Anastasia and he wrote about her last week more adroitly than I ever could. Here is a link to Andrew’s site.
Here is a link to Anastasia’s bakery. www.anastasiasbread.com
