Life in Concord is about to get sweeter. This Saturday, bakers with a background in Michelin Guide restaurants will open their new shop in Concord, The French Spot.
The bakery is having its grand opening from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. on Dec. 6 at 785 Oak Grove Road (in the Oak Grove Plaza). The first hundred customers will receive a free pastry, and there will be daylong discounts and “mystery boxes” of assorted desserts, some of which conceal $30 gift cards.
The French Spot is an offshoot of a popular bakery of the same name in the Lower Nob Hill neighborhood of San Francisco. It is owned by Vincent Attali and Maria Zapata, who “come with impressive credentials,” according to Diablo Magazine, which covered the bakery’s announcement way back in spring.
Diablo Magazine writes:
“Zapata worked with chocolatier Jean-Marie Auboine in Las Vegas and was a pastry chef at Esin Restaurant and Bar and Social Bird Kitchen and Bar, while Attali has worked at Las Vegas’s three-Michelin-starred Joël Robuchon and New York’s Michelin-starred Daniel, among other high-end restaurants and pastry shops.
“At their new East Bay outpost, the pair will be featuring the same popular grab-and-go single items — croissants, cinnamon buns, laminated doughs, sandwiches, and pastries — but with a larger focus on bread that includes baguettes, sourdoughs, country loaves, and more.”
The bakery is firing on all cylinders this week to get in shape for its debut.
“We only got approved this afternoon and have 2 (two) days to prepare hundreds of croissants, pastries, kouign-amann, breads and desserts. We will do our best to make it unforgettable,” the operators wrote this Thursday on Instagram.
“We want to see a long line y’all, down the entire plaza. We’ll make your time worth it in sweets.”
Details: The French Spot will hold its grand opening 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Dec. 6 at 785 Oak Grove Road, Suite G-3 (in the Oak Grove Plaza); thefrenchspotsf.com, instagram.com/thefrenchspot