Winner of Time Out Magazine’s
Best Bread in NYC 2003
MAY 22 - 29, 2003

Few award categories, save perhaps best pizza and best burger, incite such heated debates among food lovers as does the prize for the best crusty loaves. Amy Scherber wins your vote for revolutionizing bread baskets across the city with her signature semolina-fennel-golden raisin rolls and warm, dense organic whole wheat walnut bread. Scherber’s business, now almost 11 years old, has grown from a single quaint Hell’s Kitchen storefront into a bakery empire that supplies more than 100 restaurants and stores with their daily bread. Not that the growth has killed any of the charm; if we didn’t know better, we’d think the master was still in the back of her Ninth Avenue store in the middle of the night, baking it all herself.