Farmers-market bread stalls rarely survive the jump to a storefront intact. The loaves that hold up folded into paper bags on a Sunday morning are not built for a walk-in cooler, a wholesale delivery van, and a lunch rush that starts before noon. Bub and Grandma's made that jump anyway, opening a restaurant and bakery on Eagle Rock Boulevard in 2022 after seven years of its founder, Andy Kadin, baking bread for stalls at the Hollywood, Altadena, and Culver City farmers markets.
Karpo can flag whether the breakfast menu, and its croissants, are still running before you drive out, since the lunch menu takes over by late morning.
A bakery that outgrew farmers markets
Kadin's bread business began in 2015 and grew from market tables into a wholesale operation supplying other kitchens around the city, long before there was a storefront attached to it. The Glassell Park restaurant at 3507 Eagle Rock Blvd, opened in 2022, was the first time the dough had a permanent address of its own rather than a folding table and a cooler.
The business did not abandon its market roots when it opened the doors. The same stalls at the Hollywood, Altadena, and Culver City farmers markets kept running alongside the restaurant, which means the bread and pastry recipes on the counter in Glassell Park had already been tested on market customers for years before they landed on a menu.
What lands on the counter each morning
The daily lineup runs to pastries, sandwiches, salads, sides, and chips, with whole bread loaves sold alongside the prepared food, and a price feel that sits in the mid-range rather than either end. Croissants are part of the daily pastry case, made by the same bakery that supplies the restaurant's sandwich breads, which is a different arrangement from shops that buy pastry from one supplier and bread from another.
That single kitchen behind both the pastry case and the sandwich counter is worth noting if you are choosing between a croissant and a sandwich on a short visit, since both are coming out of the same ovens rather than a separate pastry program bolted onto a lunch spot.
A diner room built around an open kitchen
The room reads as a diner rather than a bakery café: cushy white booths along one side, a wrap-around bar and counter, and stools set up to face the grill and open kitchen directly, so ordering and watching the food come together happen in the same sightline. A white marble counter and generally sunny light give the space a brighter, less precious feel than the deli sandwiches on the menu might suggest.
A takeout window is also part of the layout, which matters more than it might sound. In a room with a fixed number of booths and stools, a walk-up window gives you a way to get a croissant or a loaf without competing for a seat, particularly if you are only stopping for pastry rather than sitting down to eat.
Morning menu, lunch menu, different clocks
- Breakfast and lunch run on separate menus, with breakfast service ending around 11am
- Early morning is the quieter window, with shorter lines than midday
- Lunch is the busiest stretch of the day at the counter
- The takeout window is the faster route if you only want pastry or bread to go
- Documented hours run 8am to 3pm daily; some listings add evening service on select days, so evening plans need checking
Bread made specifically for this address
Three breads were developed specifically for the restaurant rather than adapted from the farmers-market lineup: Bub's sub roll, a challah, and a Kaiser roll. That is a deliberate build for a sandwich shop, which tracks with the fact that a sandwich counter was Kadin's original ambition for the business before the market stalls and wholesale accounts came first.
The sandwiches themselves draw on tri-state deli style, built to sit inside those purpose-made rolls, which is part of why the sandwich menu reads differently from a typical Los Angeles bakery-café hybrid. The bread is not an afterthought to the fillings; it was written into the menu from the start.
Why the takeout window matters more than the booths
With a fixed run of booths and counter stools, and lunch described as the more crowded stretch of the day, the takeout window becomes the practical release valve for anyone who wants a croissant, a loaf, or a sandwich without waiting on seating. It is a small architectural detail, but it changes how you plan a visit: sit down for breakfast if you have time to spare, or use the window if you are passing through Glassell Park on a schedule.
The website also references evening service, including live music on some nights, though the published hours for those evenings do not fully agree across sources. Morning and early lunch remain the more reliably documented window, and the one worth building a plan around if a croissant is the actual goal.
Practical notes
Bub and Grandma's is at 3507 Eagle Rock Blvd in Glassell Park, Los Angeles. The site lists daily hours of 8am to 3pm, with some listings adding evening hours on select days that are worth confirming before an evening visit. Breakfast and lunch run on separate menus, with breakfast ending around 11am, so arrive earlier if a specific breakfast item, including pastry, is the goal. Lunch is the busier period at the counter; early morning is quieter. A takeout window operates alongside counter and booth seating, useful for a quick pastry or loaf without waiting for a table. The bakery also continues selling at the Hollywood, Altadena, and Culver City Farmers Markets, so the same bread turns up outside the restaurant as well.
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Ask Karpo first
Ask Karpo to check whether the breakfast menu and its croissants are still on before you make the trip out to Eagle Rock Boulevard, and whether any evening service is running that night if you are planning to go later in the day. It is worth confirming both before leaving, since the morning and lunch menus swap out and the evening hours are not consistent across every listing.
