Some of the Bay Area’s most daring sourdough bread, threaded with garlic confit or turned a striking shade of purple from ube — for years only available at farmers markets or grocery stores — will, for the first time, have a dedicated home.
Rize Up Sourdough will open a café at its production facility at 1160 Howard St. in San Francisco this summer. The news was first reported by the San Francisco Standard.
Owner Azikiwee Anderson, who regularly has to turn away customers who mistakenly show up at the SoMa facility hoping to buy loaves, is excited to finally have a permanent presence. “We’ve never had a place where you can walk in and buy our stuff directly. To put our flag in the ground and say, ‘If you’re really interested in what we’re doing,’” he told the Chronicle, “now you can just show up and get that kind of experience directly at the café.”…