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Sofra Bakery & Café

Ana Sortun and Maura Kilpatrick's Middle Eastern bakery and café — founded 2008 as the Oleana Restaurant Group's second operation, with two locations (Allston Boston + Cambridge). Sweet, savory, and contemporary interpretations of Turkish, Lebanese, and Greek cuisine; Kilpatrick is the Executive Pastry Chef and the bakery program is hers.

What they do

Sofra is a Middle Eastern bakery and café founded in 2008 by [[ana-sortun]] and Maura Kilpatrick, who is the Executive Pastry Chef. The menu spans sweet, savory, and contemporary interpretations of Turkish, Lebanese, and Greek cuisine — savory börek and pies, sweet pastries and baklava, mezze plates, coffee, prepared foods for take-home. Two locations: 210 North Harvard Street in Allston (Boston) and 1 Belmont Street in Cambridge.

Why it’s listed

Sofra is the bakery-café format of the Oleana Restaurant Group, extending the same supply-chain-and-craft commitments to a daytime / takeaway dining surface. Maura Kilpatrick is a category-defining pastry chef in her own right (multiple James Beard recognitions), and the partnership between her and Sortun has held for nearly two decades.

Bioregional fit

Two-location anchor inside [[greater-boston]] (Allston + Cambridge). Sister to [[oleana]] (Cambridge) and [[sarma]] (Somerville) under the Oleana Restaurant Group umbrella.

See also

Auto-generated from this entry’s typed relations: frontmatter, grouped by relation type so the editorial signal isn’t flattened.

  • Shares approach with: [[oleana]] · [[sarma]] · [[siena-farms-south-end]]
  • Member of: [[business]]
  • Contained by: [[greater-boston]]

Sources

Related concepts: [[vegetarian]].


A listing in the 0mn1.one [[directory]]. Filed under [[greater-boston]] in [[directory|the directory]].

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Practical

founder of

  • Ana Sortun co-founder of Sofra Bakery & Café with Maura Kilpatrick

shares approach with

  • Greater Boston auto-linked from body mention
  • Oleana sister bakery-café in the Oleana Restaurant Group
  • Sarma sister bakery-café in the Oleana Restaurant Group

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