Nicki's Central West End Guide
an urban news journal
All photos courtesy of Jason Heisserer Jason Heisserer’s weekdays as Head of School at the CWE’s Crossroads College Preparatory School are, as you might imagine, more than jam-packed, especially during the pandemic. So when the weekends roll around, this educator retreats to his kitchen to bake bread and pastries for his artisanal micro-bakery—breadcraft.stl—offering sourdough…
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Pharaoh’s Donuts opened at 8 Maryland Plaza on Halloween morning in a corner space sandwiched between Blue Mercury and Busey Bank, which unfortunately shuttered its Maryland Plaza location a week earlier. Proprietors Aman Asis and his daughter Syeeda Asis-Morris announced on Facebook that they sold out early. This is Pharaoh’s second location in the City…