Breadblok is a gluten-free bakery in Santa Monica with generations of French Provencal affect.
Breadblok brings high-quality, gluten-free baked items to Santa Monica
By Nicole Borgenicht
Sisters and co-founders Chloé and Celine Charlier opened Breadblok in February 2020 proper earlier than COVID-19 hit, they usually ran with it. Their household in Provence, France had baked organically and gluten-free for generations, so that they had been raised with a wholesome consuming routine.
Centrally positioned on Montana Avenue in Santa Monica, the sisters’ ingenuity instantly introduced in native clientele, since they tailored to the pandemic surroundings, and created highly regarded units of grab-and-go wholesome meals, breads and wonderful desserts for everybody to take pleasure in.
Guests can take pleasure in alfresco eating underneath the shade of umbrellas and floral vines. From brioche French toast and mushroom egg toast for breakfast to delectable salads, baguette sandwiches and tartines, an array of breads, croissants and heavenly pastries high off this quintessential, restaurant-café delicacies.
“We work with a variety of flours by no means considered earlier than,” Chloé stated. “There isn’t a gum, wheat, soy or components.”
Baking within the conventional means at their major commissary by the airport, Breadblok additionally makes their very personal chocolate. If you happen to choose your espresso with one thing aside from milk, additionally they make their very own coconut, almond and oat milk. Sugar alternate options embrace honey, coconut sugar, maple syrup and monk fruit sweetener to mud pastries.
In case you are paleo, Breadblok has pumpkin muffins, fruit and nut breads in addition to parfaits and salads. In case you are vegan, there’s chestnut sourdough bread, fruit and nut, buckwheat, carraway and entire grain. There’s a little maple syrup, which is why they don’t seem to be completely keto, but a bit selection strengthens the general immune system.
Consuming gluten-free even intermittently is a wholesome solution to diversify whereas releasing up folks to take pleasure in extra bread and dessert for individuals who have any variety of inflammatory points. Most of the advantages to a gluten-free weight loss plan, meals or balancing into consuming regimens could embrace much less fuel and bloating, a lower in joint irritation, and different reactions to gluten intolerance akin to lowering pores and skin rashes or lactose intolerance. By selling intestine well being, it aids digestion. If not for any of the above causes, the meals is just delectable and wholesome, offering a extra joyful and energetic life-style.
As for the title, Blok is a phrase that originated in Dutch. Celine and Chloé’s father now lives in Amsterdam; that is very a lot a world household as is its enterprise.
“I’ve lived in Paris, Provence and London, the place I went to high school, and Brussels, Boston and Los Angeles,” Chloé stated.
Other than bread and pastries, menu highlights embrace a light-weight and delicate jumbo lump crab salad with lime and lemon juice. The smoked salmon tartine on carraway bread has a moist caper relish blossoming the flavors collectively. A cappuccino from an natural Ethiopian Sidamo espresso roasted in Brooklyn could accompany an natural lemon limoncello from Italy, which melts in your mouth with sparks of candy taste – considered one of Breadblok’s elixirs of well being. Take house hits embrace the buckwheat sourdough toast, do-it-yourself jams and their candy and savory honey lavender cake – a pièce de résistance deal with.
The Charlier household owns and runs La Clemensane, which is the property title and firm that imports their olive oil, plus wine and gluten-free beer (coming quickly) from Provence.
Breadblok plans to develop to Silverlake within the fall, and Beverly Hills and Venice by winter. In addition they provide in a single day or second-day supply on choose breads and baked items throughout the nation.
