The wholesale bread bakeries here are new and they trained in each other. Zak the Baker started as a cottage bakery in a South Miami garage in 2012 and moved into a converted Wynwood art gallery in 2016. Chef Salomon Knafo trained in Paris, worked at Maison Kayser in New York, then worked at Zak the Baker before opening House of Salomon in North Miami. You can hear it in the copy: Zak's wholesale page offers seven days a week delivery from South Miami to Palm Beach Gardens, and House of Salomon's offers six days a week from South Miami to Boca Raton. The same sentence, one day fewer and forty miles shorter.
The rest arrived from somewhere else and recently. La Provence came from Aix-en-Provence in 1995, Sullivan Street from New York in 2017, Bettant from Villeurbanne in 2019. There is no century-old wholesale bread house in this metro, which is unusual: Baltimore has three roasting houses over a hundred years old and a bakery count that has barely moved in a century.
The other thing to check is where a supplier actually is. Ten of the twenty-two are outside the City of Miami: six in Hialeah, two in Miami Beach, two in North Miami. Tracy Bakery's Miami address is a distribution center and its plant is in Live Oak, six hours north. Bakery marketing copy in this region says Miami when it means the tri-county area, which is why Protano's, in Hollywood in Broward, and M.C. Bread, whose own service map stops at Palm Beach County, are not on this page.
Three suppliers here publish a phone number from another area code, and all three are printed exactly as the company publishes them: House of Salomon a New York 646, Panna a Broward 954, and Michael Raymond a Treasure Coast 772 that is a WhatsApp link. Every one of the three publishes a Miami-Dade street address, and two of them are corroborated by the federal directory. A non-local mobile is not evidence of a non-local business, and we do not correct what a company chooses to print.
