Nadia’s Bakery opens in Des Moines

Nadia’s Bakery opened this week in a former Jimmy John’s near Terrace Hill.

Why it matters: You no longer have to wait for the Downtown Farmers’ Market to restart for Nadia Ahissou’s French goods.

Catch up fast: Ahissou immigrated to the U.S. from French-speaking Benin in West Africa in 2011, she tells Axios.

• She began baking treats nearly every day in her home for family after losing her accounting job to pandemic-related cuts in 2020 and soon expanded to selling them at the farmers’ market.

On the menu: A mix of breads and pastries that include fruit tarts and croissants.

• The bakery also sells coffee and tea.

🥖 If you go: Open daily from 7am-2pm at 2705 Grand Ave.

The

Spark DSM Business Incubator

helped Nadia Ahissou get established.

This story was originally published here.