One of the first bakeries we saw when we visited the Evanston area last April, while house hunting, was the Breadsmith in Skokie. Unfortunately, it was closed when we drove by because it is closed on Saturdays.
Every other time we’ve thought about going to it, it’s been closed. Saturday must be our normal day to explore food or something. 
Last Monday, we had some spare moments between dropping of Prince J and RJ at school so we headed to the Breadsmith. The first thing Liz said was “It really smells like bread in here.” And she was right, it did and it was a good smell. You know how some bakeries smell too much of sugar? Well this was pure bread smell. Awesome.
Liz got a chocolate chocolate muffin, I got a Challah knot, TW got a cinnamon roll and we got a loaf of Challah and a loaf of Orange Cranberry bread. Liz loved her muffin and happily took it into Books & Breakfast at school to eat. TW’s cinnamon roll was good but would have been better warmed up (which she ended up doing the next day.) My Challah knot was fine, not exceptional but not bad. The Challah loaf was the same. The orange cranberry bread was excellent.
Next time, we’re going to try the pizza bread.
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