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Kosher bakeries face one major hurdle: No dairy for the busiest day of their week: Friday. Most kosher bakeries substitute other parve, non dairy, ingredients to comply with a key requirement of not mixing dairy when their products will be consumed with meat, especially with the Sabbath meal. Richmond copes or rather excels with adhering to this rule. While others produce fair and sometimes good products, Dimitri - their baker, soars in producing items that ranks him in the very top tier of his trade. Whether you compare him to Kosher bakeries or otherwise. A simple chocolate loaf is sublime, a surprise at only $6 an example. His breads posses a real old world heartiness and flavour. One example are his outstanding kimmel (caraway) ryes not easily found elsewhere. But why limit yourself to one type when black and sunflower rye are also on offer.
Have a special bread order? no problem just give him a couple of days notice and he'll come through for you. Like when I asked him to bake a baguette/cocktail size dark rye. I am delighted when he does the unexpected, probably needing a bakers' diversion, like produce blueberry brioche or more recently packages of exquisite cheese blintzes. His cakes are not just eye candy but take a dessert lover's palate on a joy filled journey. Challas are a mainstay of every kosher bakery and here there are numerous choices beyond the ubiquitous egg and water examples. Even his challa rolls are tastier than most others. On Mondays and Thursdays, check before you go, he bakes other grains such as Kamut and Spelt.
My litmus test in classic European desserts is how well a "moon" or poppy seed roll is made. His very fine oversize examples, really for two, are loaded with fresh poppy seed that you'll be hard pressed to stop eating them.
Open six days a week, Sunday to Friday, with early closing on Fridays.
They are a nut-free facility.
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