A bakery in Marlborough has a new name, and a new owner to match, television chef Sandy Squillante.The bakery, which Squillante bought last month and renamed from Marlborough Country Bakery to Marlborough Bakery & Café, has been a staple in Marlborough borough for more than two decades. The previous owner, Georgette Goodale, joined the business in 1992 and took over operations 10 years later, according to the Hartford Courant.Goodale says she sold the bakery to Squillante, who has lived in Connecticut for decades and...
A bakery in Marlborough has a new name, and a new owner to match, television chef Sandy Squillante.
The bakery, which Squillante bought last month and renamed from Marlborough Country Bakery to Marlborough Bakery & Café, has been a staple in Marlborough borough for more than two decades. The previous owner, Georgette Goodale, joined the business in 1992 and took over operations 10 years later, according to the Hartford Courant.
Goodale says she sold the bakery to Squillante, who has lived in Connecticut for decades and moved to Marlborough five years ago, because she was no longer physically capable of running the bakery, and was sure that the former TV star would continue its tradition, according to Squillante.
"I've been coming to the bakery, and I just fell in love with it. I thought Georgette was great," Squillante said. "It was an easy marriage for us two, she wanted to sell and I wanted to buy."
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Squillante previously found small screen fame when she starred in “America Cooks With Sandy,” which aired on PAX TV Network and NBC affiliates. She also hosted the cooking show “Romancing the Pan” on A&E's FYI Network. Squillante also previously ran Sticks & Stones, a now-closed 300-seat restaurant at Mohegan Sun Casino.
The TV chef said this is her time running a bakery, and that she is enjoying the experience, despite a learning curve.
"We have a wonderful pastry chef here, and a wonderful baker," Squillante said. "For these guys, their years go on in terms of experience."
The bakery currently serves an assortment of cakes, pastries and pies. As hinted at in the name change, Squillante is in the process of enhancing the establishment's coffee offerings — she told the Courant she had ordered espresso and cappuccino machine's to expand the options available to customers.
Sine the ownership change last month, the bakery has announced an expanded lunch menu and some boozy weekend brunch drinks on its Facebook page. Squillante said that once the bakery got its new liquor license, it would expand to a daily happy hour during the week and then drink services with brunch on the weekends.