Off the beaten track is one thing; hidden is quite another. That’s what I think as I drive back and forth through downtown Denville until I finally spot a CVS and a TD Bank. Aha! My friend Lenny Torine had told me to turn at that corner and go up a long, winding hill until I came to a huge building. That would be Anthony & Sons Bakery.
The first thing I notice is the trucks. There’s got to be about 50, in all sizes. Considering we’re visiting on a weekday, I wonder how many others were already on the road.
Anthony & Sons bakes and sells bread. So here on Luger Road, it’s a manufacturing plant, a bakery, a market, a prepared foods shop and a pretty Tuscan-style cafe where you can sit down and eat all this good food. Considering how busy this out-of-the-way place is, I figure people found it just like I did: Someone told them all about it.
Anthony Dattolo started it all in 1984 when he opened a wholesale bread bakery in Fairfield. He had come to America from Sicily in 1952 knowing no one, not understanding a word anyone said, and with only $2 in his pocket.
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