Beloved's Bakery & Café

Midtown Reno · Bakery · Café · $ · 299 E. Plumb Lane, Suite 129 · (775) 357-8140 · belovedsbread.com

The shakshuka here will change your life. Eggs poached in a deeply spiced tomato sauce, served on house-baked bread for dipping — it's the kind of dish that makes you reconsider what breakfast can be. The braised greens are extraordinary. The fried chicken sandwich — is a juicy, crispy, honeymustrd and pickle mashup that’s insanely good. The mortadella on sourdough baguette with fresh cheese and pickled onions is a perfect lunch. Every single item arrives with the unmistakable quality of someone who genuinely cared about what they were making. That's as high a compliment as this guide can pay.

The bread is the foundation of everything. Owner Zach Condron grew up in Reno, spent years working at Prema Farm, and started selling his sourdough alongside the farm's produce at local farmers markets — as much farmer as baker, as committed to ingredients as to craft. The list reads like a baker's manifesto: country sourdough, toasted sesame miso, olive loaf, salted lemon rosemary, einkorn, Japanese milk bread, rosemary sea salt focaccia, seeded rye, ciabatta. Everything made with 100% organic flour.

Slow fermentation. No shortcuts.

The pastry case, rewards careful attention — seasonal creations rotate and the croissants are made fresh daily. Coffee is locally sourced on a rotating basis, supporting a different roaster at a time. A Reno kid shaped by farmers markets and organic farms, who ran a beloved pizza operation before turning his full attention to bread. This is the new Reno.