Big City Bread Cafe offers a beautiful, new expanded interior dining area to accommodate guests any time of day and in any weather, in addition to its now- famous outdoor courtyard for dining under the shaded elms. Visit us at night to enjoy our fully expanded dinner menu, or enjoy a glass of wine or a cold beer from 5:30 until 9:30.

Big City Bread Cafe began in 1998 as a small retail vendor of breads and pastries created by the wholesale bakery Big City Bread, Inc. The retail space then moved to its current location and became a full-service cafe providing breads, pastries, and cakes to the general public-- adding coffee drinks, breakfast, lunch and dinner along the way.

In May 2005 the retail cafe was purchased by Matthew Scott and his wife Deenan, who reside in Athens with their two young children. Matthew is a graduate of Johnson and Wales University in Charleston with a degree in Applied Science in Baking and Pastry and with vast experience as a chef in professional kitchens in South Florida, Charleston, South Carolina and Athens. Deenan, a graduate of the University of Georgia's School of Music in Athens, is a teacher for the Clarke County School District. The couple met while working in a restaurant in Charleston, married and then made Athens their home.