Buttery soft ensaymadas, longanisa-stuffed empanadas and purple ube horchata are among the dozens of different items at a new Filipino bakery in Chicago, if you can get them. Umaga Bakehouse celebrated its grand opening with lines out the door and sold-out shelves in the Mayfair neighborhood on April 20. Kissel and Robert Fagaragan had to close their debut business for a day just to bake. The owners, who are wife and husband, didn’t expect the crowds. “We couldn’t even fill up our shelves,” Kissel Fagaragan said. She’s the general manager, and he’s the head baker. Every time racks came out, she said, customers bought out all the hot baked goods. That’s despite the bakery section inside Seafood City Supermarket just across the parking lot, and two bakeries in its shopping center. But the new shop is different. Tap on our bio link to read more. —— Photo 1: An ensaymada alongside an ube horchata drink at Umaga Bakehouse (@umagabakehouse). Photo 2: Owner Robert Fagaragan bakes at Umaga Bakehouse. Photo 3: Customers line up outside Umaga Bakehouse before the store opening at 9 a.m. on April 25, 2024. ? Louisa Kung Liu Chu / Chicago Tribune ? Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune / @apereztribune
May 3, 2024
Buttery soft ensaymadas, longanisa-stuffed empanadas and purple ube horchata are among the dozens of different items at a new Filipino bakery in Chicago, if you can get them.
Umaga Bakehouse celebrated its grand opening with lines out the door and sold-out shelves in the Mayfair neighborhood on April 20.
Kissel and Robert Fagaragan had to close their debut business for a day just to bake. The owners, who are wife and husband, didn’t expect the crowds.
“We couldn’t even fill up our shelves,” Kissel Fagaragan said. She’s the general manager, and he’s the head baker. Every time racks came out, she said, customers bought out all the hot baked goods.
That’s despite the bakery section inside Seafood City Supermarket just across the parking lot, and two bakeries in its shopping center. But the new shop is different.
Tap on our bio link to read more.
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Photo 1: An ensaymada alongside an ube horchata drink at Umaga Bakehouse (@umagabakehouse).
Photo 2: Owner Robert Fagaragan bakes at Umaga Bakehouse.
Photo 3: Customers line up outside Umaga Bakehouse before the store opening at 9 a.m. on April 25, 2024.
? Louisa Kung Liu Chu / Chicago Tribune
? Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune / @apereztribune
Umaga Bakehouse celebrated its grand opening with lines out the door and sold-out shelves in the Mayfair neighborhood on April 20.
Kissel and Robert Fagaragan had to close their debut business for a day just to bake. The owners, who are wife and husband, didn’t expect the crowds.
“We couldn’t even fill up our shelves,” Kissel Fagaragan said. She’s the general manager, and he’s the head baker. Every time racks came out, she said, customers bought out all the hot baked goods.
That’s despite the bakery section inside Seafood City Supermarket just across the parking lot, and two bakeries in its shopping center. But the new shop is different.
Tap on our bio link to read more.
——
Photo 1: An ensaymada alongside an ube horchata drink at Umaga Bakehouse (@umagabakehouse).
Photo 2: Owner Robert Fagaragan bakes at Umaga Bakehouse.
Photo 3: Customers line up outside Umaga Bakehouse before the store opening at 9 a.m. on April 25, 2024.
? Louisa Kung Liu Chu / Chicago Tribune
? Antonio Perez / Chicago Tribune / @apereztribune
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