Innovation Kitchen

Your kitchen is fully stocked thanks to yesterday’s holiday feast — leftover turkey, ham, and of course La Brea Bakery breads. Let’s use up some of these holiday leftovers to make some brand new creations. We’ve rounded up our favorite recipes that use these delicious leftover foods to inspire fresh…

It’s time to branch out from the tried and true avocado toast and get in on the newest trend: tomato toast. To help get you started, we helped our friends at LIVEKINDLY to develop a step-by-step guide for building the perfect tomato toast with tips from Master Baker Jonathan Davis. A good, artisan…

When we’re not cutting into a fresh loaf of La Brea Bakery bread, you might find some of us at home baking our own breads and pastries. While it may be a bit counterintuitive to consider a bread brand sharing baking secrets, we love to celebrate the spirit of community that comes with baking. We…

Summer is dancing just around the corner; blowing her warm breezes and trailing a healthy dose of beach salt and sand behind her. At La Brea Bakery, it also signals the time of year when cooking, eating, and living are almost exclusively done al fresco. While we’re gearing up our nearly exclusively…

La Brea Bakery is primarily known for our high quality artisan breads. What most people wouldn’t guess is that we have a dedicated Innovation Team whose primary role is to cook up new (and delicious) innovative recipes. They’re a colorful crew of intense talent and experience and we wish we could…

The La Brea Bakery Café feels like mom’s kitchen. It’s where we go to welcome new team members, celebrate birthdays, host parties, etc. Some of our newest breads, straight out of our Innovation Kitchen, can be found in our café displays before they can be found anywhere else. Naturally, when it was…