Get That Bread: Helms Bakery Is Softly Open

BY TAMARA PALMER

Chef/restaurateur Sang Yoon (who is behind the burger-centric Father’s Office restaurants in Los Angeles and is also a partner in Two Birds/One Stone in Napa, has softly opened Helms Bakery in Culver City, which he started working on in 2012.

The original Helms Bakery delivered daily bread around Los Angeles from 1931 to 1969. There are nods to the history with OG signs atop a neighboring building in what’s now known as the Helms Bakery District, a mural in the parking lot and with cookie and cake tins that are shaped like the original vehicles.

*Helms Bread: Choice of Olympic Champions*

*Helms Bakery District parking lot mural*

Yoon’s multifaceted business offers coffee, pastries, sandwiches, fun beverages and groceries and will open a Dinette onsite in 2025. I invited myself along on my writer homie Carole Dixon’s media visit and got to have a dreamy supermarket sweep through the building last week to try a bunch of delightful sips and bites.

There’s a train station sign inside that flips every few minutes to reveal a different message. I happened to catch a good one on video.

I tried two grab and go sandwiches, mac and cheese, a box bakery items and an iced maple latte and came to the conclusion that the savory menu is as strong as the pastry side, so I’d love to go back and try more of each anytime I’m back in the Culver City area.

*Swoony yuzu slab cake, chocolate chip cookie, limequat pomelo meringue pie and egg nog pie.*

*This is a good place for gifts, edible and otherwise. Why didn’t I buy the Emotional Support Hot Dogs?!*

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