WORCESTER, Mass. - It took a bit longer than expected, but Gentile's Bakery is up and running on Plantation Street in Worcester.
The bakery opened over the summer in the former home of Candela's Market and Creative Catering at 142 Plantation Street.
Gentile’s fills wholesale orders on loaves of bread, rolls and dough for local delis and sandwich shoppes.
The bakery's fresh bread loaves are now available for sale at D'Errico's Market on East Central Street. Customers can chose between whole loaves or pre-sliced.
In a recent interview with Spectrum News 1, Gentile's Bakery owner, Matt Gentile, said he needed to get the word out where the bread was available because people kept showing up to the bakery on Plantation Street.
"Every day people come to the door and come in and ask where the display case is," Gentile said. "We only bake wholesale for other businesses. So it can be confusing for people in the neighborhood or anyone that drives by and sees us back in Worcester."
The first Gentile’s Bakery opened on Lyons Street off Shrewsbury Street in 1927. Gentile’s grandfather and father ran the bakery at the location until the late 1980s.
The bakery then moved right down the road above D’Errico’s for another decade before moving to Lawrence Street in Northborough for 15 years.
Gentile had been running the Northborough location by himself the last few years. His father, Matt Sr., died in January 2020. Matt Gentile Sr. ran the bakery for more than 40 years.
D'Errico's Market is open seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. The bread from Gentile's Bakery can be found directly across from the register counters.