Minding Your Business - Pain d’Avignon Restaurant - Boulangerie

My best friend always says you need three reasons to go to Hyannis. Well, if two of those are an appointment and an errand, then the third one is usually, and should be, stopping and picking something up at Pain d’Avignon, right? Well now you can enjoy PDA on the Lower Cape; they opened another location on Crowell Road in Chatham this spring.

I met with owner Vojin Vujosevic last week, as they prepare to offer the dinner service they offer in Hyannis, complete with the “red bar,” they've created a European-like classy bar and intimate dining room. The bar will offer a full line of fine wines and beers. 

“The Chatham dinner menu will resemble our Barnstable restaurant,” he said. “It’s very similar to what we offer there. Even the Pizza Lab will be coming soon!” Vujosevic describes their cuisine as “mixed Mediterranean,” with strong influences from Greece and Spain. You’ll find marinated lamb chops with spiced yogurt, steak au poivre, rigatoni with Roman broccoli sauce, a Wagyu beef burger with caramelized onions on their brioche bun and more, all under the guidance of their executive chef Christophe Gest. 

PDA’s baked goods are popular for a reason: they’re delicious. They make a dozen kinds of breads (sourdough, French, rye, cranberry-pecan, brioche, multi-grain and more), bagels, croissants, scones, pastries, cookies, and even granola. 

“Our goal is to always make the best products,” said Vujosevic. They’ve succeeded. 

Brunch and lunch is a medley of grab-and-go sandwiches on their tasty baked goods, (turkey and brie, hummus, tuna, Caprese, and others); patisserie ( ham & cheese croissants, cinnamon rolls, spinach and feta Chausson, etc.) and of course their fair-trade, organic house-roasted coffee. I spoke with Joseph Leon, their longtime bar manager who went to Colombia to study coffee roasting. “We roast all our coffee in-house,“ he said. “We roast often and in small quantities to keep it fresh. It’s all done by hand.”

Leon oversees the coffee's day-to-day operation. He smiles and says this is a “place of love,” and invites you to come and experience “where magic happens.”