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Clear Flour Bread
Celebrates 30th
Anniversary

Timon started the bakery with one

chef in the venture, will offer an

product, sourdough bread, and Faber

impressive savory menu, as well as

drove the delivery vehicle, a 1969

a vast array of viennoiserie, pastry,

Chevy Nova, to make sure customers

bread, gelato and more. It is designed

got their bread on time. "We got

to serve as a casual gathering place

Clear Flour Bread is celebrating its

married seven years later. We were

for breakfast, lunch or dinner, as well

30th birthday this year as one of the

married in the bakery on Thanksgiving

as a late night cup of coffee and

Boston area's most beloved artisan

Day," Faber says. "It took us seven

pastry. In addition to a broad selec-

bakeries. Founded in 1983 by Christy

years to find a day off."

tion of coffees and teas, Common
Bond will serve wine and craft beer.

Timon, the bakery evolved from its
original 600-sq-ft space in Brookline,

The couple worked for 10 years to

MA, to a 1,200-sq-ft location that

save enough to buy their first "real

Joining Shvartzapel in the kitchen

specializes in "authentic" breads and

hearth oven," and it turned out to be

are executive pastry sous chef Jillian

pastries that honor the traditions of

the same year of the birth of their

Bartolome (Bouchon Bakery at

France, Germany and other countries

twins. That's the irony of the bakery

Rockefeller Center and previously

around the world.

business. You never know when the

at Cyrus), head bread baker Drew

time is right to make a leap, Faber

Gimma (Bouchon and Per Se in New

"We're not inventing anything new.

says. You just hope for the best with

York City), assistant bread baker Tony

We're honoring the traditions of

each step of the way.

Stein (Evergrain in Chestertown, MD,
and earlier at Bouchon Beverly Hills),

baking," says Abe Faber, who is
married to Timon and has been

"The bakery business never gets old,"

and assistant bread baker Alec Bartee

involved in the business since the

he says. "It's like gardening. You plant

(Cafe Besalu in Seattle, WA, and

start. "For us, it's all about balance.

a seed, and there's always a sense of

previously at Cyrus and Della Fattoria

Understanding the flavors and

wonder in it."

in Petaluma, CA).

Common Bond to
Launch in Houston

As for ambience, the 3,600-sq-ft

sweets" in 2013, Clear Flour recently

With an avant garde and modern

described as "casual urban elegance."

celebrated German Week with a

approach to the cafe experience, chef

It will have a modern aesthetic, with

scrumptious selection of authentic

Roy Shvartzapel (elBulli, Pierre Hermé

lots of wood, concrete and glass.

pretzels, apfelstreusel (apple cake),

in Paris, Balthazar, Bouley, Cyrus and

There will be a fully exposed kitchen

bienenstich (bee sting cake), Kaiser

Bouchon Beverly Hills), Brad Sanders

designed by HKD Design, as well as

rolls, and kugelhopf (German bundt

and Kathy Sanders are creating

a 24-ft bakery case. The cafe will be

cake).

Common Bond, a cafe and bakery

counter service, seating 60 indoors

textures that we really like."
Honored by Boston magazine for
baking the "best bread" in Boston
in 2009 and the "best bakery for

building designed by Italy's Costa
Group in collaboration with local firm
Heights Venture Architects is best

in Houston, TX, designed by Italian

and accommodating an additional 40

"We're always looking to make the

firm Costa Group, the same team

on the patio.

next new thing, which is often the

responsible for New York City's Eataly.

next old thing," Faber says. And

Located at 1706 Westheimer Road

because consumers today are more

in central Houston, the cafe's owners

savvy about food and culinary tradi-

promise it will be unlike any other in

tions, "we get to experiment with

the US in both concept and design.

things more than ever."

It is slated to open in January 2014.

The first retail bakery to introduce

The cafe, helmed by Shvartzapel,

cornerbakerycafe.com website that

focaccia in Boston years ago, Clear

recently named one of the "Top 10

allows guests to personalize their

Flour has endured for three decades

Pastry Chefs in America" and one of

online and offline experience with

through hard work and perseverance.

the three principals and executive

their local Corner Bakery Cafe in

Corner Bakery
Revamps Online
Corner Bakery Cafe has launched
a complete redesign of its www.

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