Opening a business is hard. Doing it with your spouse is harder. But a married couple from Ukraine said they’ve managed both, turning a shared dream into the ‘Bakero’, Sarasota’s newest bakery and café.
The Bakero opened in April, the product of a four-year plan, a career change, a war and a shared love of European baking traditions, owners Nataliia and Piotr Lugowski said.
The couple moved to Sarasota permanently about two years ago from Poland. For Nataliia Lugowski, the bakery is also a way of coping with the war in her home country of Ukraine, where her parents still live…