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Pastry Chef John Kraus, an American pastry chef trained in the European artisan model, is leaving Chicago’s French Pastry School (the nation’s top pastry program) for Minneapolis to open Patisserie 46, a neighborhood bakery.
Patisserie 46 will open in early 2010 in the Minneapolis Kingfield neighborhood, near Lake Harriet, on the northwest corner of 46th and Grand, by Café Ena and King’s. The bakery will use locally sourced ingredients and offer everything from croissants, brioche, Kugelhopf, artisan breads, coffee cake and muffins and Liege waffles to artisan ice cream and sorbet, petits gateaux, birthday and wedding cakes, and of course great cookies, from elegant (and trendy!) macarons to chocolate chip.
Chef Kraus knows his way around bread and chocolate. He has twice been named one of Pastry Art and Design Magazine’s “Top Ten Pastry Chefs in America” (2005 and 2006), and was the winner of the 2004 Food Network Chocolate Challenge.
“In France, you know, every day, people go to the bakery first thing in the morning to get their croissants, their bread, their daily neighborhood gossip,” says Chef John Kraus, owner, Patisserie 46. “Minneapolitans need that luxury moment for themselves, and Patisserie 46 is where they’ll find it. Every neighborhood needs a bakery that they can walk to and send their family to for a loaf of bread.”
Kraus has participated in major competitions and special events across the U.S. and France, winning things like the prestigious Patisfrance Pastry Chef of the Year and the National Dessert Champion. He has completed numerous stages at Le Palais du Chocolat in France. Before joining The French Pastry School, Kraus was Pastry Chef at NoMI restaurant in the Park Hyatt Hotel Chicago and at Magnolia and the Wild Boar, in Nashville, Tenn.
Getting back to basics is Kraus’s passion, which is why he’s moving his family to the Twin Cities, to settle and open Patisserie 46. “It is time to make a move back to the table, beginning with the fresh, honest products of the neighborhood bakery,” he says. “We as a culture will move to this eventually—we’ve lost touch with how the rest of the world eats.”
Patisserie 46, on the corner of 46th and Grand, opening in spring 2010, will be a bakery/chocolaterie/gelateria/family gathering place. You’ll find it will be your go-to for all your bread, pastries, cupcakes, birthday cakes, wedding cakes, chocolates, really great coffee, hot chocolate, sandwiches and ice cream. The bakery will also offer classes and apprenticeships. For more, friend us on Facebook/patisserie46 or follow us on Twitter @patisserie46.
Jennifer Weismann
jenniferweismann@gmail.com
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Patisserie 46 has two eager customers in our house. Having visited and lived in France, we appreciate quality fresh bread and daily walk to the Patisserie. Regardless the weather, the welcoming warmth and delicious smell of backing bread always improved my day.
With the recently opened King’s Wine Bar, the exceptional Cafe Ena and, soon to open, Guse’s Green Grocer on the corner of 46th and Bryant, Kingfield neighborhood is developing the civilized amenities of a cosmopolitan city. Merci Beau-coup, Messieur Kraus.
This is very exciting news! What a wonderful addition to the neighborhood it will be.
This makes my day ! My Year !! I can’t express how excited I am to have Patisserie 46 move into the neighborhood.
Note to neighbors: If you come by and I not home, try finding me a the patisserie!
This is such fabulous news – I am so excited!! Now I have another reason to love the 46th & Grand area. I will be happy to pick up some deliciousness before catching the bus downtown!
Awesome! I can’t wait to walk the short couple of blocks from our house to pick up fresh baked bread and pasteries in the morning and enjoy the enticing aromas. There is nothing better!
My 13-old son (who wants to be a pastry chef when he grows up) is ecstatic. He wants to know if he can be an apprentice and learn the ropes. This may be your opportunity to get some free labor.
Sounds like another great asset to the neighborhood. We’re very happy to be in walking distance to this kind of shop, it makes living in the city all worth while. Welcome to Minneapolis!