Old business model?

I have been always fascinated with the old times, when stores delivered freshly baked bread and milk to your door each morning.
Yes, today we do have huge fridges, that keep the milk fresh for days, and hold loads of other groceries, but wouldn't you love to get a fresh baguette delivered before your breakfast?

...Just day-dreaming...

Why don't you get up at the crack of dawn and make your own god damn Baguette! And while your at it make me one too! I'll send my manservant over to pick it up.:P

Ha, modsquad!
If I could, I would, but I can't even toast my wonder bread without burning it. Thus I desperately need baguette delivery. Let's put your manservant to a good use! ))

I find the knife sharpening truck endearing; and a throwback to those times. In the summer, I always run out when I hear his bells-even if I'm bringing a scissors!
They also deliver seltzer, and I would sign up for that just because of its nostalgic appeal;-) (Does anyone use this? Post link pls?)
However, there's an overabundance of delivery services--and if you were to get a baguette, you can be sure it will arrive in a clamshell package while the idling delivery truck blocks traffic.

Apparently in Canada the knife sharpening truck has the same jingle as the ice cream truck so those poor kids had to run out with a dollar and a few knives.

chipster, ditto on the sharpening truck! Love it!

As far as fresh bread goes - do we have any actual bakeries in Park Slope? We have a few bagel places that make their own bagels and a few dessert bakeries, but I am yet to come across a bakery, that will be open in the wee hours baking and selling it's own bread.

For several years we had a bakery, Uprising, with shops on 7th Ave. at 9th Street and maybe President St. It made fabulous breads. And then one day it was just gone.

katbka wrote: chipster, ditto on the sharpening truck! Love it!

As far as fresh bread goes - do we have any actual bakeries in Park Slope? We have a few bagel places that make their own bagels and a few dessert bakeries, but I am yet to come across a bakery, that will be open in the wee hours baking and selling it's own bread.

If you want a bakery that is up at the crack of dawn making their own breads, go to Lopez Bakery on 5th Avenue between 18th and 19th Streets, their breads are amazing!! and, yes, they are baking right there in that tiny store, I love when i walk in and the windows are all fogged up from the ovens!

booklaw wrote: For several years we had a bakery, Uprising, with shops on 7th Ave. at 9th Street and maybe President St. It made fabulous breads. And then one day it was just gone.

They were closed down by the DOH. I remember seeing the sign on the one that used to be at 7th Avenue and 9th Street

Take the rose tinted spectacles off, life in the past wasn't always that great.

Personally I bake my own bread, it takes about 5 minutes a day just like it says on the front...

http://www.amazon.com/Artisan-Bread-Five-Minutes-Revolutionizes/dp/0312362919

we probably would still have a bakery around if people were willing to pay the prices of what it would cost to run a decent bread baking business - i used to know the owner of Uprising and customers were complaining about the cost of the bread constantly - such a shame this neighborhood wont support a real old school business such as that.

Subject: C.G has plenty

Come to Carroll Gardens - we have more old school bakeries than I can shake a baguette at! (And one of them bakes all night long and you can ring the back buzzer and they will sell you a baguette at 2am to soak up the beer you just drank. Can't post who it is because I don't think the owners know the bakers are doing this.)

eatshoplocal wrote: we probably would still have a bakery around if people were willing to pay the prices of what it would cost to run a decent bread baking business - i used to know the owner of Uprising and customers were complaining about the cost of the bread constantly - such a shame this neighborhood wont support a real old school business such as that.

Uhh, yeah, I wouldn't exactly call Uprising a real old school business. they were more of an overpriced chain that got shut down by the DOH.

I am telling you, go to Lopez Bakery for bread! or, Caputo's down on court Street, those are old school bakeries!

Mazzola's. Union and Clinton. Best lard bread ever.

Ah-yes, they are good too!

[quote="sir_eccles"]Take the rose tinted spectacles off, life in the past wasn't always that great.

nobody's making that generalization, save that for another thread. there's nothing wrong with recognizing the good stuff either.
SHOUT OUT TO LOPEZ BAKERY!! Love the bread pudding.

katbka wrote: As far as fresh bread goes - do we have any actual bakeries in Park Slope?

Not PS but Regina Bakery on Prospect Ave and Prospect Park West, you'll remember it from the film As Good As It Gets

I've passed Lopez Bakery and it always seems closed. But maybe I only wander around down there after midnight.

yeah-not many bakeries open after midnight. They are open until about 9 or 10.

I was kind of being facetious, but now that I think about it, the only reason I've been down that way lately was to go to Quarter. I am happy to know that it is open. I'd assumed it was closed down.

BrooklynJack wrote:

Not PS but Regina Bakery on Prospect Ave and Prospect Park West, you'll remember it from the film As Good As It Gets

I passed Regina Bakery by a few times, and never saw any bread there, just desserts, cookies and such...

I always thought Regina Bakery didn't actually bake on the premises, they have a facility that bakes and brings it to the various stores. Though, I am not sure there are any Regina Bakeries left besides the Windsor Terrace one anymore, so, maybe they do bake there.