{"id":1884,"date":"2015-03-12T23:43:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T03:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2015-03-12T23:45:55","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T03:45:55","slug":"manresa-inspires-los-gatos-bread-venue-products-also-available-at-verve-coffee-in-santa-cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/?p=1884","title":{"rendered":"Manresa inspires Los Gatos bread venue: products also available at Verve Coffee in Santa Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Handcrafted,<\/a>

Handcrafted, small batch products from ManresaBread
Photo credit: Joyce Oudkerk Pool<\/p><\/div>\n

ManresaBread opened its first retail storefront a couple weeks ago; inspired by the bread program at the two-Michelin-star restaurant Manresa, ManresaBread<\/a> in Los Gatos offers hand-crafted, small batch breads and pastries by Manresa head baker Avery Ruzicka.<\/p>\n

The hours are currently Wednesday through Sunday from 7 a.m.-3 p.m. (or earlier if they sell out). The venue will eventually be open daily.<\/p>\n

On March 1, Santa Cruz-based Verve Coffee Roasters began providing customers with the opportunity to purchase ManresaBread pastries and breads at their three retail Santa Cruz\/Capitola locations. As you may recall, ManresaBread was available in Santa Cruz via POPUP last fall<\/a>.\u00a0 ManresaBread continues to be available at the Campbell and Palo Alto farmers markets on Sundays.<\/p>\n

Co-founded by Ruzicka, partner and Manresa chef\/owner David Kinch and partner Andrew Burnham, the company will look to expand to other retail locations in the South Bay and eventually online sales. \u201cAvery took the bread program at Manresa to the next level and being able to share that outside of the restaurant happened naturally for us,\u201d says Partner David Kinch. \u201cWe grew from one to two farmers\u2019 markets to the Santa Cruz popup and a brick and mortar was the next step. We\u2019re excited to start out with a smaller scale retail space in Los Gatos and see where we go from there.\u201d<\/p>\n

ManresaBread focuses on hands-on techniques and high-quality ingredients. The retail shop stocks a rotating selection of breads and sweet and savory pastries including Manresa Levain, Sour Baguette, Pumpernickel Rye, Fruit and Nut Loaf, Polenta Whole Wheat, Red Fife Whole Wheat, Hazelnut Brown Butter Cake, Caramelized Apple Buttermilk Coffee Cake, Chocolate Brioche, Kale and Parmesan Scones, and more.<\/p>\n

Ruzicka has a degree from the French Culinary Institute and experience working with Master Baker Ben Hershberger of Per Se Restaurant and Bouchon Bakery. \u201cI love the whole process\u00a0 of working with bread \u2013 cultivating the starter, tweaking a recipe, working with the dough, and using all of my senses to gauge if it\u2019s time to bake,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>: 276 N. Santa Cruz Ave., downtown Los Gatos, 408-402-5372<\/p>\n

To follow ManresaBread on Twitter, see twitter.com\/ManresaBread.
\nTo follow me, see twitter.com\/santacruzfoodie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ManresaBread opened its first retail storefront a couple weeks ago; inspired by the bread program at the two-Michelin-star restaurant Manresa, ManresaBread in Los Gatos offers hand-crafted, small batch breads and pastries by Manresa head baker Avery Ruzicka. The hours are … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,315],"tags":[968,45,967,46,966,256,119,7,541],"class_list":["post-1884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-food-news","category-restaurant-news-2","tag-bread","tag-los-gatos","tag-los-gatos-restaurant-news","tag-manresa","tag-manresabread","tag-pastries","tag-restaurant-news","tag-santa-cruz","tag-verve-coffee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1888,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions\/1888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santacruzfoodie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}