🍰 Savory Bakehouse is moving to St. Paul

Savory Bakehouse's social media posts are usually full of good news: In-progress previews of what they're dreaming up for the upcoming weekend; photos of golden-brown items fresh out of the oven; snapshots of the board listing the day's offerings.

But today's post was something more somber, at least for people in the neighborhood: After 11 years in a teeny-tiny storefront at 36th and Lake, the bakery is moving on to larger and St. Paul-ier pastures in the next few months.

Longfellow couple Sandra Sherva and Max Okray opened the shop in 2014. They met working at Seward's Birchwood Cafe, where Max was a cook and Sandra managed the pastry program. A few years later, as Racket's definitive profile of the bakery recounts, Sandra was working at Merlins Rest and stepping out to her car when she ran into the landlords of the building across the street. They were hoping to fill the small endcap spot most recently used as a pottery studio, and asked Sandra if she'd consider opening a food shop there. Though initially skeptical of what could be produced in the 370-square-foot space, the couple decided to give it a go and undertook much of the painstaking renovation themselves.