Butter Bakery Cafe will be closed for a long weekend to take a spring break and get ourselves refreshed and ready for the summer ahead!
Shop closed Friday May 30 through Monday June 2
Get a chance to look over the Social Benefit Report being sent in to the state of Minnesota this month to report on our activities during the year to meet our mission goals. Dan will set aside this time at the table for other question about the business as well.
The May selection for conversation time with the Butter Bakery book club is Kafka On the Shore by Haruki Murakami
We raise funds by DINING OUT for our neighbors The Aliveness Project. 30% of your total sale will go support their work.
Dining Out For Life Minnesota on Thursday, April 24 is more than just a fundraising event—it’s a commitment to health justice and a statement of solidarity with people living with HIV. At a time when the HIV community is facing funding cuts at both local and federal levels, your support means more than ever.
Get a chance to look over the Social Benefit Report being sent in to the state of Minnesota this month to report on our activities during the year to meet our mission goals. Dan will set aside this time at the table for other question about the business as well.
The April selection for conversation time with the Butter Bakery book club is The Long Shining Waters - by Danielle Sosin. This novel is set along Lake Superior.
We’ll be sharing a portion of our day’s sales for the Lyndale Elementary School PTA - with kitchen (8 am to 1 pm) and coffee and bakery all day going their way! Come meet staff and parents of our neighborhood school!
https://lyndale.mpschools.org
The Curry Diva is in the house! Reserve a spot to dine in, arrange for a pick up/take out order - enjoy a great meal from Heather - the Curry Diva!
You can find more information at the Curry Diva website - https://www.currydiva.com
Next in the line up for the community book club — Louise Erdich’s The Mighty Red
Sorry - this event is being postponed - check back soon for a new date -
Butter Bakery is happy to be welcoming Danny Evans back. Danny will be sharing spoken word from his latest album titled “MN Kind”. You may use the link below to get a peak at what Danny is about. Explore Danny’s facebook for some more insight on him.
learn more at https://soundcloud.com/danny-evans-189602744 and at Danny’s Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/DanTripleE/
Join others from the Butter community to read and talk books!
Our next conversation will be covering Laughing All the Way to the Mosque - by Zarqa Nawaz. This book comes from the creator of “Little Mosque on the Prairie” a Canadian television series.
“Little Mosque on the Prairie brought Zarqa’s own laugh-out-loud take on her everyday culture clash to viewers around the world. And now, in Laughing All the Way to the Mosque, she tells the sometimes absurd, sometimes challenging, always funny stories of being Zarqa in a western society.”
https://zarqanawaz.com/books/laughing-all-the-way-to-the-mosque/
Join Dan at the Community Table to learn more about the social enterprise efforts of Butter Bakery Cafe -
Join your neighbors to have a lively conversation about James McBride’s Heaven and Earth Grocery Store - We’re excited to jump into the new year with this book and with Butter Bakery treats!
Yes, we will hang up our Butter Ball again to mark the end of one year and the start of a brand new year at Butter - It also happens to be our 19th time to celebrate the purchase of Butter - back on Dec 31, 2005!
Join us for birthday cake, a fun countdown and the dramatic outdoor DROP of this year’s butter ball.
The countdown starts in earnest as midnight (STOCKHOLM SWEDEN TIME) rolls around. (5 pm central standard time)
Help us kick off 2025 as we head for 20 years of Butter Bakery!
Join members of the Butter community to discuss the book Persepolis - a graphic novel by Marjane Sartrapi
Lively conversation - Butter treats - and community building!
It's back again! PLAID FRIDAY - your opportunity to tell the BIG BOX's and ON-LINERS that LOCAL IS the best economy. Join us to support LOCAL artisans.
Wear PLAID and let us treat you to beverages and snacks while you shop (or between shop hopping along our LOCAL avenues!
Shop where it matters - right here in your neighborhood - where you can SHOP YOUR VALUES!
Butter is open from 7 am to noon - for holiday pie and bread pick ups and a bit of coffee and breakfast to get you where you are going for later gatherings. If you don’t have a place to connect with others on this day of thanks - we’d be honored to welcome you here and call you family.
Join Dan to learn more about the social benefit side of the cafe -
Dan’s working on shaping our winter efforts and would love your input!
The Butter Bakery Cafe community Book Club meets to discuss the book The Corner - by David Simon and Edward Burns. This book was the basis for the tv series The Wire. We look forward to the deep conversation we will have about the issues raised within this book.
Community building, Butter Treats, and a fascinating book.
An exhibition of abstract paintings inspired by NASA satellite photos of our amazing earth.
By Julia Klatt Singer
https://www.instagram.com/juliaklattsinger/
It’s back! The two mile long block party that celebrates all of what south Nicollet Avenue has to offer. Music, food, events and community building while you walk, bike, stroll or roll along the stretch of Nicollet from Lake Street to 46th Street.
Butter is hosting a stage at 37th Street with the help of KFAI Radio and SPEAK - to provide local music through the day. We’ll have patio space for community building efforts and of course, treats on the street and food inside!
The Curry Diva will continue the party into the evening (5 to 8 pm) so save a little room for a curry meal after your day!
Join us for a brunch with finger-style guitarist Peter Ruddy!
We’re reading Kindred by Octavia Butler for September - join us for what will be lively and interesting conversation!
We welcome Ruby Sonnek, local artist, to our gallery space - drop by to check on her drawings and paintings - as well as cards for sale.
https://www.instagram.com/sonnek_artpage/
Our Fall session of the Community Bakery Shares (CSB) begins in September with pick ups on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
Join the supporters to get your freshly baked bread each week!
see a friendly barista or baker for more info - or check out the info on the website and sign up also!
https://butterbakerycafe.com/csb
Join Dan to learn more about the social benefit side of the cafe -
Dan’s working on a review of first half goals and a look ahead at second half goals.
It’s the annual Kingfield Garden Tour - and this year’s rains should lead to some very lush, blooming spaces! Get a map at Butter then take a walk or bike around the neighborhood. While you’re visiting Butter, see and hear about the growth from last year’s pollinator pathway project on our Nicollet Ave boulevard.
Then return at the end of the evening for treats at the Sundial Apartment building and view their gardening efforts at 17 W 37th St (right behind Butter)
https://kingfield.org/kingfield-garden-tour/
We’re joining bakeries across the Twin Cities for a Bake Sale to support OPEN ARMS MINNESOTA. Drop by for bakery treats all week and support this important mission!
Open Arms provides meals for people who living with life-threatening illnesses.
It’s a simple notion: people who are sick should not be without food. Yet, every day, our neighbors with life-threatening illnesses find themselves unable to shop or cook — and, often, without the support network to help.
That’s where we come in. Open Arms of Minnesota is a nonprofit organization that prepares and delivers medically tailored meals at no cost to critically ill Minnesotans and their loved ones. Our registered dietitians and in-house chefs create delicious, medically tailored menus using fresh and organic ingredients whenever possible. Through the support of a loving community of donors and volunteers, we harvest, cook, and deliver nutritious, made-from-scratch meals directly to our clients.
At Open Arms, we believe that food is medicine, and there’s always room for one more at our table.
https://www.openarmsmn.org
It’s back - the Kingfield neighborhood-wide evening of outdoor music! Butter Bakery Cafe will have its garden stage in action! We look forward to music throughout the summer evenings starting with this big event!
our next gathering is
Monday, June 10 @ 3 pm
we're reading
The End of Drum -by Hanna Pylväinen
there will be lively conversation
and there will be butter treats, of course
