Pierre is known in the nightlife community, most recently for his work at Blind Barber, a trendy bar inside a barber shop at the Nautilus South Beach hotel. Fuentes, a Puerto Rican native, worked as an executive sous chef at BLT Prime and recently helmed the kitchen at the Nautilus South Beach s Cabana Club.
When COVID hit, Blind Barber closed and the two friends decided to open a place where they could use pizza as a medium to tell a bigger story. There are many layers to what we are aiming to do, Pierre tells
New Times. “As Black and brown business owners, we are aware of the issues affecting the Miami community. The world we are currently living in with the COVID pandemic and the reality of George Floyd made us realize that we had to do something to bring change about, and we want to inspire others to do the right thing.
Then and Now: Sunrise Donuts and other Gardner bakeries of the past
Taking a look back at the local businesses that had baked-in success
Mike Richard
Special for The Gardner News
It was a smell that permeated the air and was so recognizable in Gardner way back when.
Freshly baked bread, doughnuts, turnovers, muffins, Bismarck’s, crullers, brownies and every other conceivable type of baked goods were turned out of some of Gardner’s best-known bakeries.
One of the most popular among them was Sunrise Donuts, which opened for the first time on Dec. 13, 1956, at 157 West St.
Arthur J. Gallien first began baking doughnuts in his home at 79 Halford St. beginning in 1953, where he primarily sold to coffee shops and grocery stores as well as to the various factories in Gardner.