Great Riverside Bake Off

[Galois]

Can someone please organize this? (I would go about it but I am in a somewhat difficult situation, I don't quite exist yet.)

I want to see a great Riverside Bake Off. Memorial Park. All of dem crazy urbancore bakers, even the ones that hold themselves oh so highly in Avondale will bring their best cakes, cookies, and pies to the great Riverside Bake Off!

     We will have each of the bakeries listed below in a circle near the sidewalk in Memorial. You will pay 6 dollars sampler card of type X, there will be 3 types of sampler cards: cakes, pies, and cookies, so the maximum you can spend is 18 dollars. 50 cents from the sampler card will be donated to something, the other 50 cents will go into unforeseen costs. Next, you will walk around the Memorial Park circle sampling at each bakery and for each sample you get a strike on your card, at the end of the day you decide which bakery you thought was the best tally this onto a huge digital display in the center of the park. So there will be four categories for voting and to vote for a category you have to have a specific card (not sure how to eliminate voting redundancy yet, I mean if you get 3 sampler cards technically you can vote for the same best overall 3 times), best cookie, best cake, best pie, and best DAMN RIVERSIDE Bakery (fuck yeaah!).

    After all is said and done the bakery which wins will have bragging rights for the year, will probably get a sizable gift card to increase their baking-pertise, and probably a bigger influx of business (well all of the bakers will certainly get this). This will eventually turn into a huge city festival where all the Jacksonville people will engresse en masse to Five Points to witness and partake in the bake off, eventually bakers from around all of Jax will come and want to participate, people will begin sponsoring the prizes and coverage will get better, eventually those dudes from Miami will come, eventually those savy marketeers from New York will stop by, eventually those crazy crazy Japanese guys will come to taste the indelible sweets Jacksonville has to offer. I can see it now. Let Them Eat Cake vs. Edgewood Bakery for the claims to the Avondale vs. Murray Hill area! Then there are a few no one really knows about... Choux, B the Bakery,  and even dem new comers like Bakery Modern can get in on this. At the end of the day we all win. Lets do it.

[fsu813]

no.

[thekillingwax]

Admit it- you were a little "baked off" when you posted this.

[Ernest Street]

I'd like to see more REAL BREAD being baked by our local bakers and less sugar and sweets....the last thing we need is another $5 cupcake shop.(yea you know who you are)
C'mon can you even find homemade rye bread in Riverside?..anyone?

[fsu813]

Bakery Moderne has/will be having bread baked daily. Not sure if that part is up & running yet or not.

[RiversideLoki]

Whacksonville.com is that way, dude.... --------->

[Ernest Street]

Fresh baked Sourdough or Rye smell beats desserts ANY DAY! 

Too much sugar in Riverside!

[Dog Walker]

Bakery Moderne is open.  Has anyone here tried it yet?

[Pastry Chef]

Hello everyone,
Rest assured that good quality bread is very much part of Bakery Moderne's product line. We currently have baguettes and cuban loaves baked fresh evey morning, and sometimes a second batch in the afternoon. We also do a 7 grain wheat loaf and dinner rolls a few times a week and are offering occasional specialty selections too - today's is ciabatta.  We've only been open a couple of weeks and are still finding out what people really want, but plan to progress to rye, pumpernickel and "darker" breads soon. We want to offer a varied selection daily, with our most popular items available every day but ultimately what we make will depend on demand - so please stop by and "cast your vote".

Thanks,
Chef Nat.

[Dog Walker]

Chef, If you can make New Orleans style french bread (more like Cuban than French), you've got a customer!  My New Orleans grandfather used to have a couple of loaves delivered to his home every morning and if they were not warm, he considered them stale!  Baguettes with butter with the morning coffee and chicory; pan perdu with the leftovers that night.  Heaven!

What time do you open?

[Pastry Chef]

We are open from 7 AM to 6 PM, Tuesday - Friday; 9 AM to 5 PM Saturdays; 9 AM to 1 PM Sundays and closed on Mondays.  Sunday hours may be adjusted after we gauge how things are going. I don't know if our baguettes are "New Orleans style", but they are fresh each morning and we serve French press coffee too!

[grimss]

Stopped by Bakery Moderne this past week.  Cool space! Ordered a whole mess of different miniature tarts--cheesecake, fruit, creme brulee---and we chowed through them all. Very tasty.  And the oatmeal chocolate chip cookies were amazing--not too sweet at all! And you could taste the real butter.  WELCOME to the 'hood; you'll be seeing more of me!

[grimss]

Forgot to add that the great Riverside Bake Off sounds like a great idea to me!