When the COVID pandemic first hit around here and the food crisis began, our business rapdidly grew. We didn’t have our supply chain quite ready for what happened but we did our best to keep our boat sailing. Orders quickly surpassed what Vanessa (Riviera Bread Co.) and Pacific Health Food could bake and we were scrambling to find another solution. We even sourced our own organic wheat from Fat Uncle Farms and thought for a second we could make bread ourselves. Now were sitting here laughing at that thought.

Our friends that own Dune suggest we reach out to Bree’Osh and so we did. Pierre and Nelly, the owners, were happy to hear from us and to star a new relationship. Their business was hit pretty hard and for a moment they had to lay off a few employees. On top of that, they were expecting their first child any minute.

Bree'Osh Bakery Café was started in 2015 by Nelly and Pierre, a French couple, after spending a few years traveling to find the right place. Pierre, born in Brittany, France which is known for it’s amazing butter, buckwheat crêpes, le sablé breton (shortbread) and LE Kouign Amann sweet and buttery brioche, did not start out as a baker. Employed by a bank as Customer Relationship Project Consultant, five years ago, he realized life was too short to be spent on things in which he had limited interest. Pierre had a yearning to go back to the basics and work with his hands and felt a strong connection to French artisanal bread. After being trained in baking and pastries at Ferrandi, the school of culinary arts in Paris, and working with some of France’s greatest chefs (Cyril Lignac one star Michelin, Gontran Cherrier, Hermes Agboton/Palais de Tokyo), Pierre and his wife Nelly, decided to travel abroad and share his passion and learn from other bakers. Lucky for us, after stints in Chile, Columbia and Peru to assess the opportunity of opening a French Bakery, they found a home right here in Montecito in late 2015.

Right now we are offering Bree’oshs Country Sourdough and new Gluten Free Bread that is fantastic. Their GF seed bread is made with 4 different seeds, rice flour, corn starch, buckwheat flour, water, psyllium, sucre salt, yeast, & olive oil. And we are so excited to announce that next week we will be offering a smaller sample size of their GF bread for ya’ll to try! For $7 get a smaller loaf that makes excellent toast, fantastic with tomatoes and basil, and freezes exceptionally. We’re hoping that we can continue to offer more goodies from Bree’osh…So stay tuned for super cookies and more!