The Texas Hill Country is known for its eclectic shops, historic buildings and abundance of buzzy small-town charm. Few places are more charming than one quaint tourist hotspot just outside of San Antonio — Boerne. The small town prides itself on a lot, and breakfast is no exception.
So when it comes to the most important meal of the day, locals and visitors are drawn to a charming little bakery, hidden in a corner of Main Street, inside of a building that has been a part of the community since 1912. Bear Moon Bakery is one of Boerne’s favorite breakfast spots. Since 1995, it has served up scratch-made pastries, strong coffee and its “world famous” pigs in a blanket, lovingly known as “piggies.”
The building itself, referred to in historic city planning maps as the “1912 Joe Vogt building,” has lived many lives, with each new chapter layered on top of the last. The city of Boerne was founded in the 1840s by German immigrants in search of a life in the new world.
Only a few decades later, the building arrived. “It was built for the dry goods store that happened to be in the building next door,” the bakery’s owner, Paula Hayward, told MySA. “The long part of next door had a dry goods store from before the 1900s, and a young woman bought it, and then later her nephew built this building so she could move out of there.”…