Réunion Bakery and Espresso | French inspired baking and fine espresso service, located in downtown Staunton, VA.

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Menu posted on Tuesday at Noon for deliveries on Saturday.

$20 Minimum Order
Delivery to Staunton, Augusta County, and the cities of Lexington, Harrisonburg, and Waynesboro.
Deliveries are made on Saturday, starting on a rolling basis beginning early morning.

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French inspired baking and fine espresso service, located in downtown Staunton, VA.

Réunion Bakery & Espresso is located in downtown Staunton, VA at 26 South New Street, directly adjacent or close to some of the town’s most significant institutions. ...

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Café closed for social distancing. Go to reunionbakery.square.site on Tuesdays to purchase goods for home delivery on Saturdays.

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Hey There,

The photos on this post are by kitchen crew member @megladoncornelius and hopefully give some partial glimpse of the scale at which we are currently producing. Each week four of us produce hundreds of pastries and many dozens of quiche and loaves of bread for Saturday delivery. I work a 24 hour shift on Friday and the rest of the kitchen crew comes in at 3am for the final push toward getting everything out the door. Each week is its own massive undertaking and is followed up with some big time sleeping and all around recovery. We are happy for the work though and aim to do a little better with each new delivery cycle.

That being said, a new week and a new menu are here, live at noon tomorrow, May 26th and accessible at reunionbakery.square.site
This week we have:

Sausage, cheddar, sage, caramelized onion & poppy croissants

Blueberry, lemon zest, lemon cream & candied lemon peel danish

Strawberry cheesecake cruffins

Nectarine, almond, candied sesame & apricot croissant bostock (a personal favorite!) Prosecco poached pear & pistachio frangipane galettes

Blackberry & pearl sugar financiers

Bacon, leek, caramelized onion, fontina & dill whole quiche

Broccoli rabe, sharp provolone, roast garlic & parsley quiche

Plus the mainstays of almond croissants, chocolate croissants and sourdough country loaves.

Square did an update recently that seemed to fix the vexing problems we were having with our webstore. It only took weeks of pleading phone calls and apoplectic emails, but hey, it’s fixed. That being said, if you have any problem placing your order please call the shop and I will place it manually for you!

We are persevering thanks to you! And let me know if there is anything that you think deserves an imminent reappearance on the menu!

Best,

Bryan

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Hello!

It’s Monday afternoon and that means a new Réunion menu. The menu will go live tomorrow Tuesday, May 18th at noon and can be found at:

https://reunionbakery.square.site

Featured this week:

Local ham, manchego cheese, dijon, rosemary & caramelized onion croissant.

Apple galette with maple flake & maple pecan.

Strawberry danish with dark chocolate pastry cream, toasted hazelnut & candied mint.

Raspberry almond croissant bostock.

Cherry financiers with pearl sugar.

Mexican hot chocolate cruffin with dulce cream, meringue & chocolate stick.

Pistachio baklava croissant knots (pictured above and making their Réunion bakery debut.) Whole veggie quiche with mushroom, chive, arugula, goat cheese and parsley.

Whole bacon quiche with leek, fontina, caramelized onion & dill.

Plus almond croissants, chocolate croissants, chocolate almond croissants and sourdough country loaves!

Thank you forever and always for your ongoing support!

Best,

Bryan

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I have gotten asked quite a bit the last few days about when we might begin resuming normal service. The answer is that I don’t know. We are extremely fortunate to have found a means of operating that keeps several of us employed and keeps the bills paid. Mind you, it’s been hard. Like really hard. Instead of being open five days and making revenue off of lunch, pastry and espresso, we now sell and deliver hundreds of fresh pastries, quiche and bread on one single day of the week. This is an act of endurance and logistical precision whose undertaking would have been unimaginable a few months ago. But we’re doing it.

Under normal circumstances, ours is a high volume, low margin enterprise. You may remember what Saturday and Sunday mornings were like at the bakery. Each table full and turning over many times throughout the day. I personally don’t believe that we or most anybody else will be returning to this setup anytime soon. Why would anybody dine out if they believe their health and safety to potentially be at risk? And how could a restaurant owner ask their staff to come to work if doing so might be placing their safety in danger? We are not nurses or doctors. This is pastry and coffee we are talking about.
Tweaks to our present model may be needed in the weeks and months ahead. But I can be sure of this: Réunion Bakery’s dining room, espresso bar and sales counter are closed until the world returns to some semblance of normal. And not one single person in the world knows when that might be.

I put a picture of cannelé on this post because I won’t be making them again until we resume normal operations. I spent a full year learning how to make these gems, throwing away and giving away countless batches of subpar cannelé as I dialed in assorted variables, trying to get them just right. Trying to make a batch that was up to our standards and worthy of sale.That investment of time and energy doesn’t do me much good now, but know that someday I will offer them again. And that if you see them on our counter or on our social media feed then you can know that this cautious, judicious bakery is operating as if the world is normal once again.

Bryan

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Hello!

Menu live at noon tomorrow (Tuesday, May 12th) at https://reunionbakery.square.site for home delivery this Saturday!

One of my goals for this strange time has been to spend way more time testing new products. I will be unveiling some of these new additions in the weeks ahead, but the first of the newbies is going to be the maple bacon scroll. It’s simplicity itself with maple syrup brushed croissant dough and @bentonsbacon baked into the interior. Its got sweet, smoke, salt and richness all coexisting as a very happy family. Check it out.

Also, strawberry season is here! We will be doing all kinds of great things with the strawberries in the weeks ahead, but this week we have a strawberry danish with pastry cream and candied rhubarb strings.

Also, a smores cruffin with chocolate pastry cream, whipped honey fluff and homemade graham cracker. And... Almond, orange & marmalade croissant bostock.

Cherry & pearl sugar financiers.

Pear, hazelnut & raspberry crumb galettes.

Sausage, mushroom, goat cheese, thyme & tarragon whole quiche.

Asparagus, shallot, asiago & french parsley whole quiche.

Along with the usual sourdough country loaves, plain croissants, chocolate croissants, almond croissants & chocolate almond croissants.

@square has been fixing the problems with their webstore at a pretty anemic pace, but hopefully this is the week of no technical errors. If not though, please call the shop! If you have a problem putting in your order then I am here to help you! And if I don’t pick up immediately then I am on the phone with another customer and you should try back a couple minutes later.

Réunion Bakery is making it through these hard times solely thanks to this lovely community’s ongoing support. So thank you (!!!) now and forever.

Best,

Bryan

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Hey There,

Another week in the grand shift-exclusively-to-online-sales experiment is here! We have a great menu for you, but first I wanted to share some information I received from Square about a problem some of our customers have been having in the online store.

The Square store has a bug that causes the following problem: if you fill up your cart and then go to the screen where you enter your address, but then go back to your cart and remove an item, upon checking out you will sometimes receive a message that your address is not available for delivery, despite you very much being in our delivery area. This bug is very bad news for us given that we sell out so quickly, and if something sells out after you have already put it in your cart, you may then receive this error message after going back and removing the sold out item.

Square is working on fixing this, but until then, a solution that should make it so that less customers have this problem is to offer more of less stuff. If we offer more of less stuff then there are fewer categories which should then be emptied slower. And if you get the above mentioned error message, please call the shop and I will do everything I can to help you!

More of less stuff means no plain croissants this week. Sorry! We will have all of the following though:

Local sausage, arugula, garlic & sharp provolone croissants with sesame & fennel seed

Pear & pistachio galettes

Blueberry hazelnut croissant bostock

Apple danish with caramel pastry cream & vanilla streusel

Blood orange & poppyseed curd cruffin with candied blood orange

Cherry financiers with pearl sugar

Broccoli rabe, lemon zest, lemon thyme, shallot & asiago whole quiche

Bacon, leek, smoked fontina, caramelized onion & dill whole quiche

Plus chocolate croissants, almond croissants, sourdough country loaves and chocolate almond croissants.

As soon as Square fixes this bug I will let you know! Until then, more of less and thank you a million times over for your ongoing support. I know the online store has been causing frustration & headache, but please bear with me as we figure out and improve this system one week at a time.

Best wishes to all of you,

Bryan

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Hello everyone,

Another week and another home delivered bakery offering. The offerings for this week are... Dark chocolate pastry cream cream danish with pinot poached pear, pistachio & strawberry crumb.

Salted hazelnut praline cruffin with hazelnut chocolate pastry cream and blitzed & roasted hazelnut crumb.

Raspberry & almond croissant bostock.

Local ham, three year cheddar, rosemary & caramelized onion croissant.

Apple & lemon compoté galette with spicy candy walnut.

Whole mushroom quiche with chive, shallot, goat cheese, thyme & parsley.

Smoked bacon whole quiche with fontina, leek, caramelized onion & dill.

All of this along with the old steadies of croissants, bread, chocolate croissants, almond croissants & financiers as well.

And all available at https://reunionbakery.square.site at precisely noon tomorrow (April 28th.) As home delivery has become our new normal, I have been working hard on making the process less cumbersome and error prone. This involved spending several hours on the phone with square (mostly on hold) in an attempt to optimize settings for our store’s unique needs. Hopefully, our customers will find the store a little more intuitive and a little less confusing this time around.

I’m thrilled to be continuing to bake for you and am daydreaming daily about someday having a bustling café once again.

You all are the best.

Thank you,

Bryan

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Hello!

If one can squeak by in this time of uncertainty, there is opportunity to be found in the copious free time and solitude. @luderchrisk has been working on perfecting the country loaf recipe (70% hydration, 20% whole wheat flour and 80% bread flour for now with a really long cold ferment.) Also, the shop’s sign blew down due to high winds and improper installation, but our street is deserted and no one’s around ever right now to possibly get whacked over the head by falling signage. My point is that even now there is a silver lining to be found most anywhere one might choose to look.

Anyway, we have a great new menu going up tomorrow (Tuesday) at noon (https://reunionbakery.square.site) and it contains the following:

Lemon ginger curd cruffin with candied ginger.
Poached pear & candied rhubard string danish with pastry cream core.
Local sausage croissant with cheddar, sage, caramelized onion & poppy.
Hazelnut croissant toast with marmalade & orange.
Apple compoté galette with lemon thyme syrup & spicy candied walnut.
Bacon quiche with smoked fontina, dill, leek & caramelized onion.
Asparagus quiche with lemon zest, french parsley & sharp provolone.
Plus the usual good stuff like financiers, almond croissants, chocolate croissants, bread and so on.

And thank you, of course, to all of our customers for your ongoing support and for bearing with us as we figure out the pivot to all online sales. It hasn’t been easy and there have been plenty of mistakes, but the customer vibe has overwhelmingly been one of patience and understanding.
Be well out there and I hope that we can bring you something come Saturday morning.

Best,

Bryan

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Hi Everyone!

We decided to do things a little differently this week. Instead of people going onto the webstore not knowing what is available on this week’s menu, only to have things sell out before they can make their selections, we are now going to post the menu the night before, thus allowing customers to make their selections before accessing the webstore.
At noon tomorrow you can place orders for the following items by accessing
https://reunionbakery.square.site
Pink lady apple danish with caramel Valrhona chocolate pastry cream - $4

Blackberry financier - $3.75

Pistachio cream and Prosecco poached pear galette - $4.25

Dark chocolate pastry cream cruffin with blood orange marmalade and candied blood orange - $5

Local ham croissant with manchego cheese, caramelized onion, dijon & rosemary - $5.25

Raspberry & almond croissant toast - $4

Broccoli rabe, asiago cheese, shallot & curly parsley whole quiche - $32

Local sausage, three year cheddar, sage, fennel & leek whole quiche - $35

Sourdough country loaf - $8

Plus the usual plain croissant ($3,) chocolate croissant ($3.75,) almond croissant ($4,) and chocolate almond ($4.25.) Some helpful suggestions for ordering: “Delivery" is the option that should be chosen in the “Fulfillment" section of your shopping cart. Any instructions for smooth delivery can be left in the "notes" field.

If you would like to leave a tip the option to do so is in the "Order summary" section of the checkout process. You can always leave a cash tip for your delivery drive as well.

And one last thing: the Square store causes some users a lot of grief by registering errors despite customers using it the way it was intended to be used. This causes me grief as I want my food to bring you joy in this uncertain time and not to be a source of angst. I didn’t design the site though, and am no web designer nor engineer, so the only thing I can do is manually check you out if Square is causing you problems. Please call the shop if having issues and I will assist you on a first come first serve basis.

Thank you to you all. It is an honor and privilege to bake for you during this uncertain time.

Best,

Bryan

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26 S. New St.
Staunton, VA 24401

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We are currently only operating for delivery. Menu posted on Tuesday at Noon for deliveries on Saturday.

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