Popular Bakery, Cafe Closes In Newton Highlands

NEWTON, MA — It looks like a popular Newton Highlands bakery and cafe is closed, the Newton blog Village14 first noted.

Newton Bakery owners Eunice and Steve Feller first opened Bread & Chocolate in Newtonville in 2006. About five years later they opened a second store in Newton Highlands days after welcoming their son to the world. Also that year they faced off with celebrity chef Bobby Flay on the Food Network show “Throwdown.” In 2015 they closed the Newtonville spot, and focused on the Highlands location. In 2016 the Fellers sold the Highlands location but it kept the name.

Now, it appears, after seven years in Newton Highlands and a dozen years in Newton, Bread & Chocolate is closing up for good.

A sign on the door reads that it's closed for repair and will open later this week under new management and a new name. No one picked up the phone to the cafe this afternoon. The Facebook Page has not been updated since 2016. Online reviews of the place have been dismal in recent months, with customers especially complaining about the service and lack of consistency.

Apparently the space has been on the market for about a year.

Bread & Chocolate was a small family bakery and cafe featuring European and American inspired pastries, tarts and cakes along with croissants, scones, sweet and savory muffins, gooey sticky buns and cinnamon buns for breakfast. They also had soups and specialty sandwiches on handcrafted breads to-go and were lauded for their breakfast sandwich on brioche.

The 2016 announcement (thanks, Krissy, for pointing it out):

The recent announcement via Village 14:

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