I love this cafe in my hometown that makes their own bread. Can anyone tell me what kind it is? I’d love to recreate it at home! Thanks!

by akhawk003

22 Comments

  1. Equivalent-Tree-9915

    it should say on their menu, but it looks like a ciabatta roll.

  2. Specialist_Size1329

    Schiacciata. There’s a sandwich shop local to me that uses this type of bread and it’s delicious.

  3. Spickernell

    id call it ciabatta. to get that crumb you need high hydration and gentle handling, hot stone.

    edit: looking closer, it may have been baked in a pan. this is not a bad thing, lots of olive oil can fry the bottom crust in a delicious way. adding olive oil to the dough makes it more challenging to get a crumb like that, but it is doable, especially with late addition of oil. it looks good, id eat it. so, final answer , some hybrid foccacia / ciabatta thing. its all flour water and salt

  4. mercy-and-a-minute

    I worked at a place that had a similar product that was called “ciabatta panini”. Maybe others use such a term.

  5. Elegant_Dinosaur

    I’d call it a ciabatta bread, looks delicious!

  6. It’s more similar to a foccacia than a ciabatta, look at the bottom layer crumb, it’s full of oil, ciabatta doesn’t look like this. Looks like a very quickly made foccacia, no dimples, one rise, makes good cafe sandwich bread.

  7. culinarysiren

    This reminds me of Schlotzsky’s deli years ago before they went out of business in my city. This was the type of bread they used I think.

  8. radiobearr

    This looks like Schlotzsky’s. I love their bread