'All you knead is loaf' at Lover's Bakery

A buttery scent wafted through the air at Lover’s Bakery, even though they had sold out hours earlier on their first day open. Which makes sense, since Allie Trojano used many pounds of butter to make over 200 croissants for the bakery’s soft opening on Thursday, Dec. 11. 

Trojano and her partner Jake Medearis met while they were studying at the New England Culinary Institute in Vermont. She was learning pastry arts while he was learning culinary arts. 

“What I love about food is you never have to stop learning,” said Trojano. “That’s kind of what we’ve been doing.”

When the couple decided to move back to Medearis’ home state to be near his mother in Acushnet, they fell in love with Dartmouth. The community is close together, and they felt that the community needed a bakery. 

“The community is amazing,” said Medearis. “We’re so thankful to be a part of it, and we’re ready to bring croissants to the Dartmouth area.”

The croissants take three days to make, since everything is made from scratch. On day one Trojano makes the dough. On day two she laminates the dough by folding butter in to create layers and shapes the dough into croissant shapes. Day three is when she does a final rise, bakes and decorates the croissants. 

“You can really taste the difference when somebody makes [croissants] from scratch,” said Trojano.

While croissants are their jam, Trojano and Medearis make a number of pastries. They have brownies, coffees, scones, cookies, poppin’ tarts and more. 

This isn’t the first place Trojano and Medearis helped open, but this is the first shop they own and opened on their own. They traveled around the states, working at a number of restaurants like pizza places, ice cream shops and fine dining. The vision for Lover’s Bakery has been with them for a while before they decided to officially start Lover’s Bakery. 

Trojano and Medearis chose the name “Lover’s Bakery” for a number of reasons; they’re the lovers, and they put love into the croissants and other baked goods. They randomly thought of the name one day, ruminated on it for a few months, and decided it was the perfect name. 

The shop motto is “Peace, love, and pastries.”

“We try to keep it simple to make sure that people understand that we basically bake with love,” said Trojano. “We want to have a good community, we want to be a part of it and spread good vibes.”

The grand opening is happening on Saturday, Dec. 13 from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. (or until they sell out.) They plan to double up the batches to make sure everyone gets a chance to get a croissant.