Community Bakery

Take a break, please your sweet tooth, or pass a few hours chatting at this 50-year old Little Rock institution. In addition to coffee and cappuccino, it offers a tasty selection of sandwiches, delicious soups and quiches.

Finish lunch with crème brulee, cheesecake or a slice of pie. Buy a few loaves of fresh-baked bread to take home.

Local artists' work adorns the walls. A wide variety of people frequent this bakery/cafe, from young hipsters to middle-aged socialites.

“When you get right down to it,” says Community Bakery’s Joe Fox, “this is a labor-intensive business in which the quality of the product is determined by the individual effort of the person doing the preparation.” When he arrived in Little Rock in 1981, Fox noticed that Arkansas’ capital was devoid of bagels and the New York Times.

When he approached Community Bakery’s owner to see about renting kitchen facilities to do some entrepreneurial baking, she offered to sell him the business instead.  

To monitor the quality of Community’s baked goods, Fox employs an enviable tactic: “I eat,” he laughs. “I’m always nibbling and testing — my favorite is our chocolate-chunk cookie.” Joe lives in the Quapaw Quarter and is active in the community.
 

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