Apicella's Bakery Inc - New Haven

O maron a mia de bread is good omg fresh apicelly brot hot from which is the best! There is nothing better than the old apicelly’s bakery the best bread on the planet?

Apicella 's Bakery is an Italian bakery that opened in New Haven, Connecticut in 1920. It was founded by Italian immigrant Geremia Apicella. He grew up in the village of Minori in Italy 's Amalfi Coast. He came to New Haven in 1907 and started his first bread bakery in 1914. He changed locations a few times over the years, but in 1920 he learned of a property for sale at 64 Houston Street. This larger location allowed Apicella and his in-laws to live in a house together and have a bakery on site. The oven was in its own one-story brick structure in the backyard. Apicella originally named the new bakery Apicella 's Sanitary Bakery, but the name was later shortened to Apicella 's Bakery. He would later be joined by his brother Antonio Tony Apicella. The Apicella Brothers retired in 1975 and sold the business to Alphonse Al Cimino and his wife Rose. Al had previously worked for Apicella 's when he was a teenager. In 1984, he moved the bakery to its current location on Grand Avenue. Today Apicella 's is one of the largest Italian bread bakeries in Greater New Haven County. Aside from traditional Italian bread loaves, they also bake hard rolls, grinder rolls, rustic round loaves, stuffed breads, biscotti, taralle, and freselles. Apicella 's products are also available at various Italian restaurants and local supermarkets. I recently visited the retail store at Apicella 's. Although I 've been eating their bread for years, this was my first time visiting the bakery itself. The place smelled great! Not only were people stopping in for bread loaves but also morning pastries and coffee. I bought a loaf of their Famous restaurant-style Italian bread (with sesame seeds) and a loaf of their round Italian bread. I used the restaurant-style loaf to make myself a delicious muffaletta sandwich for lunch. I later used the round loaf to make some Butternut Squash Bacon Crostini for dinner one night. If you 're looking for excellent Italian bread then you can 't go wrong with Apicella 's.

As someone who grew up in CT and now lives in NC... I can tell you first hand that if you've acquired a taste for their breads .... Don't settle. I've actually called and asked if they sell the dough itself outside of CT so that I could enjoy that fresh baked bread (that I was so used to buying growing up) almost ANYWHERE in CT and found out that I was, unfortunately, spoiled growing up. It's something I still miss. Whenever I visit CT is one of the first things I seek out, just to enjoy fresh baked bread.

Quick pitstop in Fair Haven to grab a bag of taraelle. The stuffed breads looked great, including the eggplant parm and chicken parm but will have to come back another time and grab.

Arrived this morning 0615 and asked what bread was freshly baked out of the oven this morning. Was told by both males, everything! Well this is what It looked like when I got home. Definitely not fresh.