Hot Bread Kitchen

It's easier than ever to have your fill of hot bread.

In addition to frequent appearances at the Sundays-only New Amsterdam Market, where many of these photos were taken, and at various Greenmarkets around town, Hot Bread Kitchen now operates a retail outlet inside La Marqueta. This historic Spanish Harlem building, which houses the bakery's production facilities, now sports a small sunny shop and cafe, Hot Bread Almacen, by the entrance.

Here one can sit down for a few minutes and enjoy the likes of freshly warmed m'smen (shown above and below, $3), a Moroccan semolina flatbread, drizzled with honey, or daily lunch specials that draw on the same international inspirations as Hot Bread's baked goods. Many of these bakery items are available for takeaway; so is fresh masa, made from corn that has been nixtamalized on the premises.

Also shown: traditional and Sephardic challah; focaccia; bialys; the Persian flatbread known as nan-e Barbari.

Hot Bread Kitchen
At La Marqueta, 1590 Park Ave. (at 115th St.), Manhattan
212-369-3331
Monday through Saturday, 8:00-5:00
Also, on many Sundays, at the New Amsterdam Market, South St. between Peck Slip and Beekman St., Manhattan
www.HotBreadKitchen.org

Comments

[Lisa]

This is thrilling for us up here in E. Harlem! We've been nagging them (at their greenmarket stall) to open a retail outlet at the bakery - there's no real bread in this neighborhood, frankly, for lack of demand. Now I can get my delicious m'smen!