Bakery & Café — Reading, Pennsylvania
Warm bread,
slow mornings.
Juniper Table is a small-batch bakery built on two unfashionable ideas: dough takes the time it takes, and butter is a food group. Everything below came out of one oven, this morning.
Out of the oven, on the hour
The bake runs on a schedule older than the shop itself. Come at the right minute and your loaf is still crackling.
Country, seeded, and the Friday walnut.
Butter, almond, and ham & Gruyère.
Cinnamon first, cardamom on weekends.
Chocolate, Friday to Sunday only.
Today's board
Country Sourdough
48-hour ferment, blistered crust
Butter Croissant
Laminated over three days
Cinnamon Morning Bun
Brown butter, orange zest
Seeded Multigrain
Seven grains, honey-kissed
Cardamom Knot
Swedish sugar-and-spice twist
Seasonal Galette
Whatever the market brought
Three days in every croissant
Day one, the dough. Day two, the butter block — folded, rested, folded again. Day three, shaped by hand and proofed slow. There is a shorter way to make a croissant. We checked; it tastes shorter.
Save your Saturday loaf
Regulars call by Friday noon and a sourdough with their name on it waits at the counter. No app, no account — just a phone call and a paper tag.