Israelis open San Francisco’s only Kosher bakery

JTA – Three Israelis have opened the only Kosher retail bakery in San Francisco.

Friends Isaac Yosef and Avi Edri, and head chef Yanni, held a soft opening for their bakery Taboon in the city’s SoMa neighborhood earlier this month, the San Francisco Gate website reported.

As Oakland’s Grand Bakery gets set to close the week of Dec. 19, after 55 years of operation, Taboon will become the area’s only true Kosher bakery. Izzy’s Brooklyn Bagels, which is Kosher-certified, has locations in Palo Alto and East Palo Alto.

Taboon offers challah, pitas, bagels, babka, rugelach, bourekas, sufganiyot and more for Hanukkah. The recipes are from Yanni’s great-grandfather, an Iraqi Jew who migrated to Israel and owned a bakery in Jerusalem’s Machane Yehuda Market.

The bakery has been churning out 1,000 pitas a day and selling out most of its items daily.

“All of my life, I was dreaming to open my own bakery,” Edri, a former diamond merchant, told the Gate. “It’s a dream come true.”