Yellow Corn Tortillas

Hot Bread Kitchen is more than a bakery.

Hot Bread Kitchen Baking

It’s a social enterprise that enhances the future for foreign-born women while preserving baking traditions.

Za'tr Lavash

We offer fresh breads baked with traditional recipes from around the world. We use local grains and organic ingredients.

Artisan Baking Center

Hot Bread Kitchen makes great bread and builds better lives for people who are an integral part of the city’s future.

Challah Close Up

Can you think of a more satisfying combination?

News & Happenings

Hot Bread Kitchen in Curbed NY

La Marqueta Construction

To reactivate the old abandoned city-owned food market under the Metro North tracks along Park Avenue, the EDC has recruited Hot Bread Kitchen to operate a 4,000-square-foot “kitchen incubator” that will help small entrepreneurs grow their food related businesses.” Read the full article in Curbed NY, August 26, 2010.

Staff Picnic & Intern Appreciation Day

The Table

Hot Bread Kitchen held its first staff picnic on Saturday, August 5th, to honor several departing interns and celebrate summer.  The staff picnic marked the first time that Hot Bread Kitchen’s staff, board, interns and bakers came together to meet one another’s families, taste everyone’s home cooking, and enjoy each other’s company outside of work.  Everyone brought …continue reading

Hot Bread Kitchen’s M’smen in the Village Voice

“Hot Bread Kitchen, the multicultural bakery and non-profit that employs lower-income female immigrants, will be offering Moroccan M’smen bread at several Greenmarkets this month in celebration of Ramadan.” Read the full article in the Village Voice, August 18th, 2010

Jessamyn Waldman to Speak at Harvard Business School Club of Connecticut

Hot Bread Kitchen Executive Director, Jessamyn Waldman was recently selected by the Harvard Business School Club of Connecticut to speak at a panel entitled, “Women in Social Enterprise: Leading the Way, Changing the Game”. Other speakers include: Yasmina Zaidman of the Acumen Fund, Ronda Kotelchuck of the  Primary Care Development Corporation and Jane Chen of …continue reading

Our Awards and Accolades

2009 NYC Small Business of the Year Snail of Approval, Slow Food NYC Echoing Green Recipient of the 2007 Eileen Fisher Grant for Women Entrepreneurs