Hoffman's Bakery Cafe & Restaurant in Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County, United States | Restaurant

June and Ed Hoffman, longtime Santa Cruz residents, returned to Santa Cruz in 2000 to set up an exciting new bakery café with a full service dining room serving breakfast, lunch and dinner, breads, tortes and pastries, many of which are French inspired. Both June and Ed are UCSC graduates, as is their son Adam, the dining room manager.
Ed started his baking career over 25 years ago in downtown Santa Cruz at the Old Theatre Cafe, where he was an apprentice baker under the tutelage of Lorenz Rothbucher. He also worked with Ron Schmidt, Al Negri, and Jean Wopplehorst, all former owners of bakeries in downtown Santa Cruz. It was a â??naturalâ? for Ed to think of moving to downtown Santa Cruz when he sold his shop in Kirkland, Washington, where the Hoffmans enjoyed 16 years of great success, providing award-winning cakes and pastries and exceptional wedding cakes.