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Pandemic pivot: Bakery planned for Carver opening in Carytown
April 1, 2021
A kosher bakery will open in a space most recently occupied by glass-blowing shop and restaurant The Melt. (
Mike Platania photo)
Not one to let the disaster that was 2020 put the kibosh on her dream of opening a kosher bakery in Richmond, Claudia Strobing is now Carytown-bound.
In the fall of 2019, Strobing, a Long Island, N.Y. native, signed a lease at 800 W. Marshall St. in Carver, where she was planning to open Claudia’s Bake Shop. Then the pandemic hit.
“We were getting ready to build, we had permits in Carver,” she said. “Then everything shut down.”