Terranova Bakery

Best bread on Arthur Avenue! My sisters beg me to bring it when I visit then beg me to take it away from them cause they binge on it. lol.

Best bakery on the planet! Best bread in the universe! Worth travelling light years for!

Bought a loaf of the 7 grain bread and a loaf of the pepper and pork bread, wow delicious fresh homemade bread. This place never dissapoints, git bread sticks too. We have been buying bread from this store since 1990’s, quality is amazing and lots if variety and free samples at the counter.

This spot closes early Sundays but dishes out some tasty baked good when open.

The bread is really good especially the pizza bread. They have these lenon drop cookies that are really good

Love their bread! And their prices! And when I brought a friend of mine there one time she bought a lot of their fresh pasta that she fell in love with. Prices are very reasonable.

I drive over 30 miles and cross a bridge just to buy a loaf of bread. I especially like the large well done loaf. Try the fresh pasta also. You will never go back to pasta from a box. If you have a sweet tooth, try the anisette biscuti.

Beautiful multi grain pizza dough. Buon appetito

Magnificent breads and pastries. Drive, walk, run, job, pogo stick, skateboard, fly, swim, crawl… get there.

Terranova bread is the best!!! I discovered it about a year ago, and have never been disappointed. They have so many different types, but I especially love the pizza bread (so simple, so good!) and the olive bread. The staff are incredibly friendly, too.

I have been coming to this bakery for two years now, and its been outstanding. The quality of the bread is out of this world. One thing that I enjoy the most when I come here is the large variety of bread choices they have. From the Olive bread, Ciabatta, Raisin with walnuts, to the Chickle (Amazing black pepper bread with bits of Prosciutto). If you are more on the simple side, and like to stick to your plain flavors. They have some satisfying breads to chose from, like the Pizza Bread which is a soft but crusty bread that is round with a hole in the middle, great for fun decorations, and tastes great. And of course their rated number one bread, according to the zagat survey (I do my research!!) the ultimate best Pane Di Casa. Which is baked in their beautiful antique brick oven, which Ive seen on a few tours Ive gone on.
Customers Do Come First! Every single time I walk into this bakery all the employees are very helpful, and friendly. I have never had any disappointments.
Till this day… The Terranova business is more delightful and creative than ever, now offering freshly baked bagels with cream cheese, with a nice cup of coffee. Five Stars!!!

In spite of the stiff competition in the neighborhood, Terranova manages to go the extra distance with several of its offerings. It’s Pan di Casa is as good as anyone’s (always get the large loaf) and the Olive Bread is the neighborhood’s best. Lucky shoppers can sometimes pick fresh loaves directly off the cooling racks as they come out of the oven, and the smell of the warm (actually hot) bread can be so transporting that you will wonder how you could have ever bought bread anywhere else. My only disappointment with Terranova is in what they don’t seem to offer. I don’t think they bake a ciabatta, or if they do I have never seen it, but either way it is a shame because it would probably be stellar.

I became familiar with Terranova’s bread oddly through a supermarket that sells their bread upstate. It is excellent and usually pretty fresh considering the distance from the Bronx.
I decided to stop by the retail location while passing through the Bronx, and was hoping on super fresh delicious bread.
I purchased a plain Bastone and a sesame twist. Both tasted at least a day old, which was shocking since I am buying it from the source. Also, when you buy it from the retail location versus the supermarket you have no way of feeling the bread for freshness.
Employees were quite surly, but maybe that goes along with the depressing neighborhood.

BEST BREAD IN ALL FIVE BOROUGHS OF NYC.
BAR NONE.
BEATS all NY bread bakers from Staten Italy to South Brooklyn 18^th Avenue.
Being from Boston this bakery rivals the BEST bread bakeries in the NORTH END.
Bova’s (24hrs-​365 days) or Parziale’s.
This bread bakery is WORTH seeking out. Its off the beaten path of Arthur Avenue by a few short walking blocks on East 187^th Street.
You cannot go wrong by taking a few loaves home. It’s still GREAT after a few days if you don’t devour it on the spot, walking around Arthur Ave or on the way home.
BEST to BUY two loaves.

Best bread in NY. Drive 100 miles from NYC and you’ll find Italian delis advertising that they carry Terranova bread (though it’s usually a day old) — that wouldn’t happen if this wasn’t the best. Nothing better than popping in when a fresh batch is coming out of the oven and it’s too hot to even slice (though unsliced is better anyone, at least for long term storage/​freezing). Buy some pizza dough while you’re there.

Got only a loaf of bread so far but it was delicious. Staff was very helpful.

I’ve literally been coming here for decades, pops always took me along to make the Arthur Ave run, and its definitely the best bread spot in the five boroughs. Even Nona from Sicily’s fresh-​out-​of-​the-​oven can’t hold a candle. When I have business in the Bronx, I always go right when the place opens at 9AM and get my pane-​di-​casa and pizza bread. Don’t have them slice the pane, you cut it as you eat it, freakin rookies!
Since I can remember, I’ve been coming here to get my bread, and it always has the same satisfying crust. Perfect for eating in chunks with cold cuts from Teitel Bros a few blocks away.

I live on the block, so when I come home late at night, they will sometimes give me bread. However, 535 E 187^th St. is where they do their bread baking (only the round loaves, I believe), not where they sell their bread (except to me, for free, when I am feeling shameless). So unless you are wandering down E 187^th st in the wee hours of the morning, you can’t get bread here. You best head down a few block to 691 E 187^th St, past Arthur Ave to Cambreleng. I’ve never been inside the real location, but I can say from experience that the round loaves are VERY good, and if you go to the bakery instead of panhandling outside your own house, they will slice it for you. Imagine that. So classy. They also make some tasty fresh ravioli, although they really can’t compare with Borgatti’s. Anyway, snaps for free bread!

Of course I would give this place five stars! My fellow resident’s dad owns this shop and he used to work here as a kid. The bread was amazing. Since we were friends, he gave me a tour of the place.
This was a simple bakery. The front has shelves and a counter where they display the goods and the back is where these giant brick COAL BURNING ovens were just filled by the hundreds with beautiful round loaves of bread.
I hate crusts, but eating one right out of the oven was so tastey. The bread whites had a nice push back to your teeth: al dente? The smell was wholesome and inviting. All the workers were so nice and I believe they were just nice like that and not just because we were the owner’s son’s friends.
They run a clean operation with good basic materials and who doesn’t love things made in a traditional way.

At last, my carbohydrate sucking, can-​smell-​freshly-​baked-​bread-​from-​anywhere-​in-​the-​bronx ass can stop searching for Sangri-​la. I come here every morning for the day old, $ 1 bread and make it last through the day. One day I got to the place after they closed and walked to the back near the ovens and literally begged to buy one of the loaves. They have a great selection of baguettes (demi, whole wheat, etc.) along with some good, more gourmet breads. This place is surprisingly personal (people behind the counter know my name and usually start getting my order before it’s out of my mouth). It’s problematic that it doesn’t have an ATM in the place, but the prices are so low that i can usually scrounge up a dollar in change. It’s nice to come here in the morning after a run. Not pretentious like most small business bakeries (then, how pretentious can one get living in The Bronx?).