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Sandwich shop August Rhodes rises into a bakery
BY VALERIE VINYARD
As a fl edgling sandwich shop, the 6-month-old August Rhodes was just getting its “feet underneath it” when the coronavirus hit.
The fast-casual artisanal sandwich, soup and salad concept off ered wellmade, fi lling food with friendly, engaged employees.
So, when the restaurant had to temporarily close, “It took a lot of wind out of our sails,” partner Nathan Ares says of the pandemic.
During the closure, Ares and his partners reinvented the concept. On July 9, August Rhodes Bakery was born.
The move made sense, as the 2,200-square-foot location already had been baking all of the breads for restaurants that are part of the Ares Collective, which encompasses Commoner and Co. and the Prep and Pastry locations. Ares also noted that other restaurants had been requesting baked goods from them.
Now the general public can benefi t, too. August Rhodes Bakery is open for walk-up business from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursdays through Sundays, or until the bread is gone. Most prices range from $5 to $8.
For those who pine for August Rhodes’ sandwiches, Prep and Pastry has added some of August Rhodes’ most popular sandwiches to its menu, such as the turkey club, BLT and the Jersey Joe.
When the lease for August Rhodes Bakery ends in December, it will move to another location. Ares hopes to fi nd something in the Campbell Corridor or at least remain north of the university.
“It’s just not us anymore,” Ares says. “It’s a beautiful building, but I don’t want to be kind of hidden in an old shopping center.
“I would like it to be the north side local bakery,” he continues. “I don’t want it to be this huge production of delivering bread to every single grocery story. I want to be the boutique approachable bakery on the north side.”
Partner and head baker Nathan Teufel, formerly of Canyon Ranch and Monsoon Chocolate, is the baking force behind August Rhodes Bakery. Ares calls the 37-year-old “a nerd about bread.”
In addition to its sourdough varieties, which include traditional, chocolate sourdough and roasted pistachio green olive, Teufel creates bialys, which Ares says are like fl uffi er bagels without the hole, and Japanese milk bread, which Ares describes as “really good Wonder Bread.” Baguettes and English muffi ns also are off ered.
The bakery also sells sourdough start
August Rhodes Bakery’s sourdough bread with its housemade jam is available for customers to purchase Thursdays through Sundays.
August Rhodes Bakery
er kits and French toast making kits, which will come with a link to a video on how to make the bread.
Ares says August Rhodes already sells its products to Ren Coff eehouse, and he is in talks with a lot of restaurants and a couple of grocery stores.
“We just want to make sure we can take care of what we’re doing now before we expand out,” he says. “We’re going to be very selective of who gets it.”
In January 2014, Ares opened his fi rst restaurant, Prep and Pastry. It was tucked away in a plaza at 3073 N. Campbell Avenue, where August Rhodes Bakery sits. In June 2015, Ares and his partners opened the upscale Commoner and Co. at 6960 E. Sunrise Drive. Another Prep and Pastry is located on East Grant Road, and one recently
Partner baker Nathan Teufel with a loaf of sourdough. (Photo by Shannon Dudley/Corker Photography)
opened in Scottsdale.
His secret for success?
“Just do a good job and people will show up,” Ares says. “And keep your head down and keep a smile on your face.”
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