Brea's Bakery + Bistro

Champagne... For when it's almost 8 o'clock, you worked a whole day at your other job and you forgot you need to make 6 batches of cookie dough. Then forgot you had no brown sugar so you needed to make it. Then forgot you had no cinnamon so you needed to grate it fresh. Then your big mixer, Baron von Mixenburg is being too beefy and keeps popping the breaker. And... You need to make pecan praline ice cream but you haven't made the caramel yet.

I might need another glass... 😆

On this menu this weekend...

BLTs with hand cut french fries, jerk chicken tacos, housemade eggrolls, mint chip ice cream sammies 🤤🤤 + more! See you from 11 to 5 today. We have live music from 1-4 too..

On the menu today...

As per usual we start with dessert first.... I made cherry crisp and 3 kinds of ice cream; vanilla bean, cappuccino chocolate chunk + cookies and cream.

For lunch Chris is making BLTs, fried chicken sammies and shrimp salad.

I also made 6 loaves of drool worthy cheddar bread. We are open 11 to 5 today, come by!

For the first time in a LONGGGGG time I baked for the for the pure joy of baking. Just a single batch of cinnamon rolls for us to enjoy. My kitchen has been under construction for what feels like forever and it's finally all done. So nice to break it in and experience the kind of joy I had when I first started this adventure. 😍

Yesterday was so busy we sold out of food! 🎉 So today we have local cheese + crackers, charcuterie boards + of course... Ice cream sandwiches with our housemade vanilla bean ice cream. 🤤

On the menu today...

Rosemary parmesan bread, BLTs, chile verde, Chris' eggrolls, mango habanero wings and more.

I made cookies and cream ice cream that is to die for! Have it solo or in a ice cream sammie.

Live music with 1-4 today AND tomorrow!! Don't miss it!

On the menu today...

Peach crisp! 🤤 Housemade ice cream, vanilla bean, cookie dough PB swirl and vanilla + strawberries.

BLTs, chicken pesto sammies, herbed cheese, cheddar bread and chicken quesadillas

Live music from 1-4 come join us for lunch 11-5.

Crispy handcut French fries? ✔️✔️✔️
Our signature BLT with a farm fresh egg added? ✔️
Housemade roast beast sammich? ✔️

🤤🤤🤤🤤

We are serving until 5 today.

I made the cutest rolls today for our Italian + roast beef. 😍

On the menu today... Housemade roast beef sammiches, Italian sammies, BLT, rosemary bread, lesia's chèvre, housemade cappuccino chocolate chunk ice cream + more!

I'll have 3 fresh baked loaves of rosemary olive bread tomorrow. Come see me 11-6. Loaves are FCFS.

On the menu today... Fresh baked Italian herb bread, homemade strawberry ice cream, peach crisp, grilled cheesies, tomato soup, wings + more!

I made my spiced nuts for the first time in months and months. Some of you have been begging for them. Here's your chance! Come get them this weekend!

Cheddar loaves on the menu today. 🤤🤤🤤

Live music with Liz + Pete, wine and lunch. Could it be a better day?! On the menu: Baja shrimp tacos + broccoli cheddar soup.. mmmm. Bonus: the best dang cookie dough ice cream that we made!!

You know what's been missing from pumpkin pie?! Crumble. Everything is better with crumble on it.. I made this little cutie for our Thanksgiving celebration. I'll be making more on Saturday. Come get them Saturday, while they last! 😍 Happy thanksgiving!

Ps.. obviously I'll have fresh whipped cream top it with us you stay to eat it. Can't have pumpkin pie without whipped cream. I'm not crazy!

Bonsoir from France! We are sitting in our Airbnb in the Champagne region overlooking a beautiful vineyard all decked out in autumn colors. It’s tonight for us so we are enjoying a glass of champagne while we write the menu for the weekend. Why have we not done this before?! It’s so beautiful and relaxing! We took time to enjoy each other (and food as evidenced in the photos) for the first time in months and months. (maybe even a year?!) We are together a fair amount but we are ALWAYS working. We almost forgot what it was like to just be married instead of being business partners all the time.

In other news, come help us celebrate!! The food truck has been open 1 year today!!! Thank you for a year of amazing! We’ll be open this weekend with our full menu on Saturday + Sunday and a smaller menu on Friday. We hope to see you for lunch and a glass of wine. We'll have a Sunnyside grilled cheesie, tomato soup, turkey sandwiches, chicken wings + more!

I’m sure if you are anything like me by the time Saturday rolls along you’ll need an excuse to leave the house! We’ll have yummy food, live music and wine. I also hear that Chris is going to be making eggnog ice cream. OMG I cannot wait! Chris made the most amazing shrimp tacos a few weeks ago, they sold out in a heartbeat. You’ve all been emailing to ask when we are we going to have them again. Well…. mark your calendars!! We’ll have them again the first weekend of December!

*These photos were taken hours after getting of the plane. 🤣 So we may look a bit tired.*

Today is the last day we are open until Thanksgiving weekend. Don't miss Chris' amazing Baja Shrimp tacos. 🤤 We are open till 4 with live music starting at 1.

Guess what I just pulled out of the oven?! Everyone's favorite pie, peach raspberry. Edit: the pie sold out already! 😍)

We are open until 5 tonight with shrimp tacos, bacon potato soup, house made roast beef sammies, rosemary bread + more on the menu. Come see us for lunch!

This is the last weekend we are open until Thanksgiving weekend!!

Little Arthur Jackson and I have a few rosemary loaves for sale today. We are here until 6. Come by!

Bonus.. we have hands down the best chocolate ice cream you'll ever right. I know it's cold today but that's THE BEST time to have ice cream!!!

Tomorrow on the menu we have 4 types of house made ice cream.

Cookies + Cream (pictured, also my fav)
Vanilla Bean
Ghirardelli Chocolate (Chris' fav}
PUMPKIN PIE SPICE (it tastes just like pumpkin pie but better!!!}

Oh yeah... also rosemary bread, blts, a turkey caprese sammy, Italian sammich + more! See you tomorrow + Sunday.

I have a few loaves of rosemary bread for sale today (Friday) until 6. Come have a glass of wine and get some yummy bread! 😍

I got recently got my hands some heirloom wheat from {thanks }
It's 3 times of the cost of my current flour but..
some of you may already know my body doesn't tolerate wheat well. I know this if an affliction that a lot of you share with me. I don't know about you but being able to eat wheat again is worth a lot to me!!

After some research I've discovered that for me it's the type of wheat that is grown + the farming practices. That's why I'm so excited to test out this Sonora white flour from a local mill.

We are testing out pie dough first, it definitely needed more liquid then I was used to but... It seemed to come together well. Later this week we'll be trying out pot pie with this dough. I'll post updates when I have them!

On my menu this weekend... Ice cream sandwiches with Chris' cherry vanilla ice cream and my dark cherry chocolate chip cookies. 🤤🤤🤤

Fresh bread coming out of the oven to serve with charcuterie and local cheese today at

Come by, say hi, have a snack and glass of wine with me!

We are back at it this weekend! I'll be baking up delicious bread. Our food truck menu is on the website, if you'd like to see the preorder email just drop your email.

Saturday + Sunday from 11-4 we have BBQ ribs, BLTS, French Toast and Chicken Pesto sandwiches + more. More importantly we are unveiling our mint chocolate chip ice cream, unless I eat it all first...

Isn't this just so beautiful!?! I don't often get to enough time to enjoy my own backyard between our 2 businesses + our nonprofit. That is going to change!

You may have noticed that I haven't announced a preorder menu or even a schedule for August. That's because I'm not going to be taking any orders this month!

We are taking a pause this month. A pause to reassess priorities. A pause to realize that I don't ALWAYS have to do more. A pause to learn that I am enough and I do enough. A pause to learn how to take on less. A pause to recover from burnout. Maybe this sounds silly to you and maybe it strikes you at your core. Either way, I'm going to take the time to focus on bringing the joy back to the kitchen.

In the meantime, we are still open! Tim is running the winery ( ) in our absence and we have a designed a simple menu with choices like charcuterie, local goat cheese + hummus all paired with the delicious crackers I made yesterday. He'd love to see you Saturday + Sunday 11-4 to enjoy a snack with a glass of wine + watch the monsoons roll in.

Instagram vs reality.... 😂

In case you needed a reminder: not everything turns out! Skills take time and practice. You AREN'T going to nail it on your first try and that's ok. I've gotten so comfortable baking what I do well that I haven't had a flop in quite some time or tried anything new for fear of failing. Time to get out of my comfort zone! I tried my hand at pretzel buns and it was a whole lotta nope on a rope. 🤷‍♀️ The pretty ish hamburger bun didn't taste great, the uglier than all get out hot dog bun was mega delicious but so unattractive. 😂 I tried two recipes, I'll try the ugly ones again and work on my skills. 💪🏼

Puppy yoga is this Saturday are you coming?!?!?

We only have a few spots left, don't miss this dopamine boost paired with mimosas. Plus, we are opening early for brunch afterwards.

Tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/puppy-yoga-with-santa-cruz-humane-society-tickets-380523053697

I'm working on new items this week and I'm wondering, what's your favorite dessert??

Mine is hands down ice cream. It's one thing I can't resist. I got my vanilla beans in this week so I'll be trying my hand at vanilla bean ice cream this week.

This picture with my sweet hubby was taken at our favorite ice cream joint, bonus points if you can figure out where! 😍

All dressed up and everywhere to go! Peach Blackberry crumble pie is on the menu today. 😍

Thanks to everyone who came out this weekend! The avocado toasties were a hit! 😍

Our schedule for the summer is going to look a bit different. Somehow people don't know how amazing Sonoita is in the summer. 🤷‍♀️ It was 67 degrees while we enjoyed our coffee this morning! 🤯That being said, it's a bit slow in our area. We are going to take advantage of that and enjoy some much needed r + r throughout the summer and finally have some time to get back into the test kitchen. What do you want to see us try most?!

July schedule
7.2 +7.3 | 7.23 + 7.24 11:00 to 4:00

I got my hands on the most beautiful heirloom tomatoes today. Aren't they just gorgeous?! They are going to be the belle of the ball this weekend. They'll be featured in our caprese, BLT and a knockout turkey sandwich this weekend. You can see the whole menu on our website: breasbakery.com

For dessert I'll be featuring apple crisp and ice cream sandwiches with mint dark chocolate chip cookies. 🤤 They are going to be amazing... Think thin mints but in a soft chewy cookie.

Don't forget to check out the preorder menu for bread, crackers and sweets. I need orders in by tomorrow night.

SOLD OUT

I have 4 of my half dozen cinnamon roll pans up for grabs tonight, $14 each. Comment mine if you want them!

They'll be headed to and available for pickup shortly!

Did you know some people actually order my cinnamon rolls WITHOUT frosting? 😲 It was totally shocked the first time it happened. It seems absolutely unthinkable to me but it must mean that they are so good they don't need frosting???

Speaking of cinnamon rolls... I'm making some tomorrow with a 5 pm pickup. If you want some just send me a message by 6pm tonight! I rarely do cinnamon rolls so this is your chance!

I sold out of all of my pie already (I swear I made extra so I wouldn't sell out.. 🤷🏼‍♀️) this weekend so... Today we are having ice cream sandwiches with fresh baked cookies 😍 Is there anything better in the summertime?!

Chris and I have been looking at commercial ice cream makers. It's tough to find a good one. I really want to make my own ice cream flavors. Hopefully, coming soon.... 🍨

Kitten yoga and brunch at this morning was 100% incredible. Can't wait to do it again.

My signature peach raspberry pie is on the menu this weekend. Come join us for brunch (10-11) or lunch (11-4). It's going to be a fabulous day!

There is nothing better than French Toast. You know the really good kind made with hearty bread?? It's my absolute favorite topped with some fruit and fresh whipped cream.

Rancho Rossa Vineyards & Rescued Hearts Cellars is doing kitten yoga this Saturday morning at 9 so we are opening an hour early to share brunch with you from 10-11. Plus we'll have mango mimosas, umm.. YUM!!

You can see the full weekend menu + preorder menu on our website: www.breasbakery.com