GREEN BAY − A new bakery and traditional Mexican-style restaurant is now bringing original recipes from Jalisco to Green Bay’s food scene.
Mely’s Cake and Yahualica Restaurante opened almost two months ago at 1706 Main St. in east Green Bay. The restaurant is owned by two Mexican couples, and offers pastries as well as traditional foods from Yahualica de González Gallo, a northern town in Jalisco, Mexico.
Melisa Nungaray co-owns the joint with her sister, Juanita, and both their husbands, Jose Perez and Jose Barbosa. They started making and selling pastries during the pandemic, with the idea that hey would one day open their own business.
“We started during the pandemic,” she said. “We would do cookies, bread and desserts and sell them.”
The couples moved to San Jose, California, in 2000 and came to Green Bay in 2014. All those years, Melisa, Juanita and Jose Barbosa worked cleaning buildings and in supermarkets and Jose Perez worked at Sysco, a multinational corporation involved in marketing and distributing food products and equipment.