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Jess Bakeshop

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Jess Bakeshop

Naturally leavened sourdough for all kinds of bread🥖🍞 freshly baked pastries, cakes, cookies.

Address: 18 North Ave, Garwood NJ 07027
📧 [email protected]

09/03/2026

LABOR DAY WEEKEND MENU 🇺🇸

We’re getting ready for this week & Labor Day weekend with a few special things we’re especially excited about. ❤️💙

🌶️ Buffalo Gochujang Chicken Sandwich
Our take on a classic buffalo chicken sandwich, served on house sourdough focaccia pressed hot. Our own buffalo sauce cooked down with butter and blended with our gochujang sauce for the perfect balance of buttery, tangy, spicy, and savory. (Available starting Thursday)

🍓 Strawberry Vanilla + Blueberry Cream Cheese Cupcakes
A combo of 6 cupcakes total: 3 strawberry vanilla and 3 blueberry cream cheese. Together, they make a pretty little red, white, and blue celebration. 🇺🇸

🌽 Honey Roasted Corn Butter Sourdough Focaccia & Gochujang Butter
Our special focaccia flavors will also be available with the butters sold separately in-store, so you can take them home and enjoy them with Jess Bakeshop 😉 bread, BBQ, or whatever you’re cooking up this weekend.

🥖 Lots of Milk Buns!
We’ll be making plenty of our soft, fluffy sourdough milk buns to make your Labor Day BBQ more delicious. Perfect for any sandwiches or whatever ends up on the grill.

Pre-orders are open for select items (pick up for Sunday and Monday), and we’ll continue updating the pre-order menu throughout the week as we get closer to Labor Day (https://jessbakeshop.com)

See you soon!

08/29/2026

We meant to take a good photo of tomorrow’s version of our sneak peek “Labor day special“ sandwich… but instead, we decided to write this with some of today’s photos before heading into another night of baking. 🤍

We’re at the very end of the summer season, and somehow, this week you all showed up for us in the most beautiful way. Thank you to everyone who stood in line, brought friends, and enjoyed our treats.

Most of all, so many of you have been loving our little ube additions to the shop — our ube sourdough milk bun, ube matcha & espresso. 💜 When we ended up running out of whole milk during the middle of a crazy rush, one of our customers kindly went out and bought milk for us. We keep thinking about that. How lucky are we ?

We’ll see you tomorrow — ready to end August in the most scrumptious way. 🤍

With love,
from the very tired bakers behind the counter. 😴

08/27/2026

We’re almost back. 🤍** and get ready for a fun Friday Sandwich Lunch Pop-Up** 11 AM–2 PM (and meet our NEW UBE Matcha)

We’re taking one more day away, after a very meaningful few days of celebrating, wandering, eating, drinking, and getting inspired. After lunch Popup, we’ll be back to our regular **9:30 AM–3:30 PM hours! We will also announce fall menu after Labor Day weekend! **

And a few things we are especially excited about this Friday : our Kimchi Bacon Sourdough Bagel sandwich, which has been selling out lately along with Pulled Pork, our beautiful NEW Ube Matcha with house made Ube cream mix(not too sweet just perfect Ube flavor blended with our matcha or espresso latte), and a refreshing Organic Ginger Honey & Maple Lemonade if you haven’t tried yet. Preorder is open if you want to reserve (highly recommended!) https://jessbakeshop.com

(We will have limited cinnamon rolls, sourdough loaves and bagels!)

A little more time away, a little more inspiration, and then back to our favorite part — opening the door and seeing you. 🤍

See you soon.

08/25/2026

A Little Pause, A New Chapter

We’re taking a few days off this week and will be back Friday for a special Lunch Pop-Up. 🥖🥪 The time and details will be announced Thursday, so stay tuned.

This week is also personal: we’re celebrating our 10-year wedding anniversary. ❤️

When we first met, I talked endlessly about bread — how much I loved bagels, what kind of bread I wanted to make, and all the ideas in my head. Simon listened and asked questions.

I told him, “One day, I’m going to open something. Maybe a bagel shop. Maybe a Korean-inspired bakery. I have so many ideas.”

After one of our first dates, I called my sister in Korea and said, “I think I found someone I want to spend the rest of my life with.” Ten years later, here we are. We ended up doing both. Somehow that old dream became this bakery.

Simon has always supported my adventures, but now he’s part of every piece of this life: the bread production, long days, little victories, hard days, and the warmth of everyone who walks through our door.

Last month, after more than 25 years at the same full-time job since moving to the US from the UK, he closed that chapter too.

Something is changing for us. We’ve been thinking about what we want to build next — something more solid, more fun, and deeply rooted in true hospitality.

We’re especially proud of our new team. We’ve put great care into building a group of kind, empathetic, respectful people who bring their own spirit while understanding ours.

For the first time, it feels like we have people who can help carry this with us. That means we can dream a little bigger.

There will be new food, a bigger drinks program, a fall menu prep, and an even warmer version of the bakery we’ve been dreaming about.

Maybe this was always meant to become this. Maybe some things find their way to you when the time is right.

For now, we’re taking a breath, celebrating ten years of us, and enjoying this strange, beautiful life we built together.

Will you continue to be a part of Jess Bakeshop story? 🥰

See you Friday. 🤍

08/20/2026

Finally, our Ube Lemon Sourdough Milk Bun is here! 💜🍋

Our soft lemon sourdough milk bun paired with ube—lightly sweet, with both the ube and fresh lemon flavors coming through beautifully.

Inspired by one of our team member’s Filipino heritage, and it got his official “Yummy!” approval. 😋🇵🇭 It’s officially in the shop starting today!

🍎 Fig & Brie Apple Pastry has quickly become a new customer favorite—and one of ours, too!

🥭 Next week is the last week of our Mango Sourdough Cinnamon Roll, so make sure you get your summer favorite before it’s gone!

🥪 And we’ll have a full sandwich lineup, including our newest Kimchi Bacon Sandwich on Sourdough Bagel.

Preorder for sandwiches and weekend pick up is available (Link in bio : https://jessbakeshop.com )

See you soon! 🤍

08/18/2026

OUR LUNCH POP-UP IS BACK! 🥪✨8/19 Wed 11-2PM

Maybe it’s soon but honestly, we’re too excited!

Some favorites plus a few new sandwiches:

🥓 Kimchi Bacon on sourdough bagel. Our sourdough bagel with crispy bacon, kimchi & all the good stuff. Also available on our popular jalapeño cheddar bagel!

🔥 Pulled Pork Gochujang, our #1 best seller is here again — and this time, it has a partner! Meet our “Almost-French-Dip” 🇫🇷🇰🇷Pulled Pork Gochujang sandwich with just the right kick of horseradish sauce. Rich, savory, juicy!

🥯Everting Bagel Focaccia with Cream Cheese spread

🤍 Ham & Cheese Gochujang
An all-time favorite — sweet, savory, spicy and cheesy.
🤍 Tomato 🍅 Mozzarella & Pesto on Sourdough Focaccia
🌿 Roasted Zucchini, Pistachio & Kale Pesto, mozzarella on sourdough.

✨Cinnamon rolls, Lemon 🍋 cream milk bun, cookies and other sweets will be available. Don’t forget to pair your sandwich with our refreshing NEW Ginger Honey Lemonade!
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⏰ PRE-ORDERS ARE NOW OPEN (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!) to get your favorites before we sell out. (link in bio ➡️https://jessbakeshop.com)

🚶‍♀️ Walk-ins welcome (first come, first served!)

08/10/2026

WEDNESDAY LUNCH POP-UP 🥪✨ 8/12 11-2PM

We’re opening up for a special Wednesday lunch with a sandwich-focused menu to celebrate the return of our K-BLT sandwich!

First up… K-BLT 🥓🍅🥬
Our Korean twist on the BLT with house made onion pickle blended with Jess’ special Gochugaru (Korean chili flakes) dressing on the classic BLT! Served on our sourdough brioche (Highly recommend pre-ordering as quantities are limited) ➡️https://jessbakeshop.com

And some of our fan favorites:
🌶️ Gochujang Pulled Pork Sandwich
🧀 Ham & Cheese + Gochujang Sauce Sandwich
🍳 Egg Sando on our sourdough bagel
🥒 Roasted Zucchini with Pistachio & Kale Pesto on sourdough
🍅 Tomato + Mozzarella on our sourdough focaccia
And 👀sneakpeak : We’ll be testing a new sandwich with light and crispy sourdough ciabatta !

We’ll also have our favorite cookies and cinnamon rolls🤍 And of course, drinks! 🧊 Our much-loved iced drinks include organic matcha honey lemonade & (new) Ginger honey lemonade.

So, enjoy a little midweek Jess Bakeshop moment— Who’s coming? 😋 See you Wednesday! 🤍

08/07/2026

We have to talk about this one 🌶️🤘Tomorrow’s lineup is looking GOOD!

Today’s Gochujang Focaccia came out so good that we honestly think it’s better than Korean fried chicken. 🤭🌶️

We’ll have plenty all weekend—don’t miss this one.

And yes, there’s more 👀
🖤 Blackout GF Chocolate Olive Oil Cake Tiramisu Cup
🌽 Buttermilk Corn Scone
🫐 Blackberry Upside-Down Olive Oil Cake
👀 Sneak peek: Jess Bakeshop-style Fig & Brie Pastry, (vegetarian or ham) We’ll share more about this one soon!

See you tomorrow! 🤍

08/06/2026

Another week, and we’re ready to spend another good one with you all. 🤍

We’ve got a few exciting additions to the menu this week!

🫐 Blackberry Upside-Down Cornmeal Olive Oil Cake — rich, buttery, and perfectly decadent.

🥬 🥐Your favorite Kimchi Pulled Pork Pastry is back, and we’ve increased production so you won’t miss out. We’ve also prepped even more of our best-selling Pulled Pork Gochujang Sandwiches.

🎂 We also wanted to share one of the vanilla strawberry cakes we made for a customer’s special celebration. Being a part of these meaningful moments truly makes our day and inspires us every time.

✨ One more new item : Soft Cardamom Morning Bun—made with our croissant and milk bun hybrid dough, then coated in freshly ground cardamom sugar. Soft, fragrant, and one of our new favorites.

More updates are coming soon…

See you this week! 🤍

07/31/2026

Good news! Power is back! 🎉

Thank you all so much for your kind messages and support—it truly means the world to us. 💛

We didn’t give up and kept pushing through with everything we could while the power was out. Thankfully, electricity came back, and we’re now finishing our fresh cream fillings! Everything is ready to go!

Some of you know we’ve recently grown to a small team, and they worked incredibly hard today—especially in nearly 100°F heat. We couldn’t be more grateful for their dedication. 🥹 A huge thank you to our amazing team and to all of you for cheering us on.

We’re excited to welcome you today! Come by, enjoy some fresh bakes, and spend part of your day with us. See you soon! 🥐☕️💛

Address

18 North Avenue
Garwood, NJ
07027

Opening Hours

Thursday	9:30am - 3:30pm
Friday	9:30am - 3:30pm
Saturday	9:30am - 3:30pm
Sunday	9:30am - 3:30pm

Website

https://www.jessbakeshop.com/

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