This Brazilian bakery makes pastries and breads, but also serves up breakfast, lunch and dinner. Menu items include burgers, hot dogs, soups and selections from a self-serve hot foods bar. The bakery does a brisk retail business and also sells its wares wholesale. Simple laminate-top tables fill the dining room, and there are TVs as well.
Padaria Brasil Bakery serves Brazilian pastries such as empadinhas, as well as birthday, wedding and exotic cakes, desserts, freshly baked bread, coffee and juice drinks. This is one Padaria's five locations; visit its website to see examples of its work.
Hot Breads provides Indian bakery items, dessert specialities and drinks. A popular place, particularly in the evenings, please stop in to sit and enjoy a specialty Indian milk drink and a pastry, cookie, piece of fruit cake or bread. There are several tables inside the small store to sit and enjoy your treat.
The Culinary Department at the Joseph P. Keefe Technical School runs the East Side Room Restaurant Tuesday through Friday.
As part of the program, students plan the menus, identify portions sizes, select and order food for the menu and prepare and serve the food.
The students run the restaurant and a bakery, which sells cookies and pastries.
Cafe Fresh Bagels is a very popular place in the mornings. New York- style bagels are its specialty - try one with a schmear of custom-blended cream cheese. It also serves breakfast bagels with eggs (or egg whites) and a choice of cheese, bacon or sausage. Coffee and standard beverages are available.
The spot is popular for lunch, too. Try one of the bagel sandwiches, salad and/or soup.
Recently opened Smart Market is a Brazilian market located just outside downtown Framingham. The market offers predominantly Brazilian food products, including rice, coffee, spcies, sauces, beverages, and snacks. Prices are relatively cheap, and there is a butcher case as well.
Bruegger's Bagels' claim to fame are their NY style bagels that were kettle boiled and then baked. They also offer soups, sandwiches, salads, coffee and other drinks. Diners may eat in at one of the many tables in the restaurant or take out if they are on the run. Bruegger's is conveniently located at Shopper's World and is open for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Founded in 1917, Framingham Baking Company is known for pizza, bread, rolls and Italian cookies. Everything is made by hand and baked fresh every morning. Call ahead for daily specials or visit the store to see for yourself. Although not handicapped accessible, call ahead and the team will gladly bring an order out to you.
At North End Treats, diners can enjoy fresh, handmade pizza baked in a hot brick oven. Other specialties include fresh eggplant parmesan, calzones and gelato. The store is associated with Bova Bakery in the North End of Boston and also sells pasteries baked using some of its well-guarded recipes. Catering is available.
The Original Brooklyn Water Bagel Co. is a quick-service eatery serving gourmet bagels, 3-egg breakfast sandwiches, bagelwiches, muffins, and more. Another choice is the company's proprietary Scooper Melts, which is a bagel filled with meat, cheese, vegetables, and condiments, then baked; options are albacore tuna melt, monte cristo, vegge melt, protein melt, and corned beef reuben. An assortment of beverages are available, as well, and include Cubsta, chocolate egg cream, fresh-squeezed orange juice, Brooklynized water, and soft drinks.