Last week I read in Dish that a bakery called La Boulangerie is coming to Logan Square. A few days ago I set out to figure out where exactly it’s going to be. So you know how you can enter New Wave Cafe from both Milwaukee Avenue and Logan Boulevard? La Boulangerie will be right on the corner there, the tip of the triangle building.
The people behind La Boulangerie own Cook Au Vin, where they do cooking classes and bake bread for restaurants, but not for retail. This new business will be a bakery and creperie and they say their goal is to create a traditional, 19th century French bakery. They’re going to do freshly-baked baguettes, croissants, country-style loaves, and French pastries all day long. The crêpes will be both savory and sweet and Black Dog Gelato will be providing them with custom-made gelato flavors as crêpe fillings.
But do not think they are going to be old-fashioned, with the 19th century French goal. La Boulangerie plans on launching a delivery program called Bread-Flix. A Netflix, but for bread. So you will be able to go online and choose days to get bread delivered, 2 orders per week minimum. And the bread will be delivered by bicycle. To start, the program will be available for Logan Square and Bucktown.
I saw on their site that this is what they think the storefront will look like.
So they’re keeping the big sign and changing some awnings.
Hey I remember living there! That was my building.
Well, now it’s going to be a bakery and already has an awesome coffee shop. And across the street where that gross parking area is located is going to be turned into a community open space!
Can we all agree that they should get rid of that monstrosity of a sign??!!
Yeh, it’s so big and ugly.. even on the new artist’s rendition.
Hurray, new bakery! AWESOME!
Most of you will most probably be familiar with Cook au vin’s breads without knowing it, but they are at a lot of Farmer’s Markets (such as Logan Square, Empty Bottle) – the one’s doing Crepes at the market. If you ever bought bread at the Dill Pickle Coop – that, too, is Cook au Vin. It is the best baguette outside of Paris. No kiddin.