HoneyBirch Bakehouse brings sweet and savory to Larchmere

It’s midmorning in early fall in Cleveland, still warm enough to sit outside Renee and Elan Hoenig’s HoneyBirch Bakehouse and savor a sweet cardamom knot—similar to a cinnamon roll but with a fragrant, citrusy-cardamom filling—or a flaky, savory bourekas hand pie, a staple of Israeli and Sephardic Jewish cuisine. Both are among the bakery’s signature offerings.

Tables off the entrance accommodate a couple or three while other fans crowd the small, cheerful store, eager to pick up the takeout treats HoneyBirch Bakehouse is known for. Since the Hoenigs transitioned from the cottage industry they ran out of their Highland Heights home more than four years ago, their bakery on Larchmere Boulevard at East 122nd Street has become a part of just the kind of community they were seeking.

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