Trading during a pandemic forced many business owners to reckon with the position they held in their customers’ lives. Jonny Pisanelli at Abbots & Kinney Unley Road “We’re really happy moving forward, and next year hopefully you’ll see an Abbots & Kinney interstate.” “Now we know we can drop a little Abbots & Kinney in next to no space and just give everyone what they really need – and that’s good service, coffee, great, freshly baked pastries and freshly baked sourdoughs. “I’m able now to systemise how our team and how the bakery runs,” Jonny says, “which is great, because moving forward it gives us so much more confidence. He has now built a relationship with a third-party company to produce the Abbots & Kinney range, delivered raw to the shops, freeing Jonny up to develop and create new products, and reorient the business towards expansion interstate. Most of Abbots & Kinney’s shops bake on site, but the production, until recently, was Jonny’s jurisdiction. The ability for Abbots & Kinney to take on a new location like Unley has come from some minor evolutions in the background of the business. Exact trading hours will be locked in over the coming weeks. I live in Croydon, so to have my own bakery there to get a loaf of bread when I need it is pretty good.”Ībbots & Kinney Unley operates into the afternoon from 7am Monday to Saturday and from 8am on Sunday. “Being in the suburbs, I think there is that notion of having that suburban bakery or that suburban deli that people are coming back to,” Jonny says. A particular focus for the Unley site, like Croydon, is the range of sourdoughs on offer. ![]() The new Abbots & Kinney site offers White Horse coffee and a range of freshly baked sweet and savoury pastries, as is the case for all Abbots & Kinney sites. And I guess what we offer isn’t really on Unley Road, or in that vicinity of Unley, Malvern and Hyde Park.” “It just seemed like a really, really good fit for what we offer. “ off-street parking we’ve got the trees that are overhanging, creates a lot of shade people that are two steps away because they live next door or they live across the road, and these are all the things that we love about Croydon “To be honest, it reminded me a bit of Croydon,” Jonny says. ![]() He visited the site, surveyed the area, and decided it would be a good fit. Through this frontage, Jonny found his business was just as suited to the suburbs as to the CBD, and in the almost two years since the Croydon store launched he’s enjoyed the process of building community around the shop.Ī few months ago, a regular customer at Croydon raised with Jonny the idea of joining a new development on Unley Road. In January 2019, Jonny took over the former Red Door Bakery site in Croydon, the first permanent suburban shopfront for the Abbots & Kinney brand. Thank you for supporting LA Weekly and our advertisers.The bakery and café operation this week opened a new store in Malvern, at the corner of Unley Road and Marlborough Street.Ībbots & Kinney was founded on Pirie Street five years ago, and has become a staple coffee and pastry stop for the clientele of Adelaide’s business district. (310)392-2425, .Īdvertising disclosure: We may receive compensation for some of the links in our stories. Sarah Fenskeġ031 Abbot Kinney, Venice, 90291. ![]() That's more than we can say about most places in the neighborhood. (They even burn some hickory and trap the smoke in the glass, which adds an extra note to the drink.) There's also a communal table - which makes much more sense in a bar than in the usual awkward dinner context - and a lounge area, so even on crowded nights, you can usually score a seat. We're positively obsessed with the Smoke, which combines rye, Fernet Branca, lemon and smoked honey for $12. Darkly lit, romantic and lively all at once, it boasts a superb list of craft cocktails, genuinely nice barkeeps and surprisingly swift service. So what's a thirsty couple to do? Head to Willie Jane, of course! One of the best restaurants on this hipper-than-thou block also has a surprisingly swell, and generously sized, bar to keep the party going. Bully for you! But $150 later, your meal is done, and you'd better believe they want that table back. So you managed to squeeze in at Gjelina, Tasting Kitchen, Salt Air, Axe or one of the other high-priced hot spots on Abbot Kinney for dinner.
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