Dining Out: Love in a loaf at King’s Highway Bakery
Gorgeous loaves of traditional Italian bread are the stars at Kings Highway Bakery, an institution in Gravesend for close to three decades.
But, at this jewel box of a store, the bread is just the beginning. Cookies, cakes and pastries glisten in glass cases, just feet from the double doors that lead to the back, where workers create and shape dough, roll it in sesame seeds and bake it in huge ovens, the old-fashioned way.
If the breads are just like grandpa used to make, there’s good reason for it. The recipes that are the bakery’s mainstay were passed down to owner Rocky Crupi from his grandfather and uncles, who ran a bakery on Smith Street that specialized in bread, made from recipes brought over from Calabria, Italy.