International Bread

Fiancé and I love stopping in to small neighborhood restaurants and bakeries, and I had been eying international bread for a few weeks. Because their hours are fairly limited (they close at 4 PM on weekdays), I had never managed to make it in before they closed. I stopped in today (on a Saturday morning) and was floored by just how good their bread is. Their storefront is no-​frills, and they make only a couple types of bread– but what they make, they make incredibly. This is a flavor you can’t fake, because you need a real tandoor to do the baking. We met Fouad, who was incredibly generous and tried to get us to take a bag of bread when we weren’t sure we had any cash (cash only!). That’s before I realized how low the prices are. We paid $ 2.50 for a big bag of bread that will take us days to eat! Needless to say, we’ll be back both because of the flavor and the kindness we were shown.

I was visiting a friend in San Jose and he raved about this place. I must say that this is some of the best bread I’ve had and in a very unlikely location. These guys are so nice too. They even let me go behind the counter to see the bread getting made and gave me a free sample straight from the hot oven (after it cooled of course). You can put a special order in for samoon, but it’s all delicious and fresh. I wish I lived here so I could eat this all of the time.

A gem of a find. Fresh baked flat breads daily. Love using it as my pizza crust. Friendly services every time! My secret baker.

Hole in the wall but the freshness of the bread is heaven. Come between 9−11a

Best bread in the city. You know it’s fresh because it’s always really hot when you get it and the bags steam up when they close them.
I came one time and they had sold out– he told me to come back in 30 minutes after he was finished making the dough (which I did). Have to appreciate that. You know that bread is fresh. You can taste it.

Oh my god I love their bread! It’s soo good and they always give it to us when it’s hot and fresh. I love the smell of it and my family loves eating it :) delicious!

Just went to buy some bread for the first time. Bread was fresh and still warm. The guy even gave us a fresh one to try right out of the oven! Delicious!

Fresh, hot flat bread, friendly service, I would highly recommend checking this place out. :)

Great samoon and bread freshly made. Would love to have another branch around sunnyvale and palo alto area

Great bread which is sold at other stores like International Food Bazaar and other ethnic stores. I enjoy the interesting shape of the samoon bread which I have seen in an article about Georgian cooking. The tandoori bread is nice, soft and fresh and is good in wraps and with lebni, or kefir cheese. Very good prices for bread here.

Was walking by this morning after I dropped my car to be serviced off Capitol. Stopped in because I could smell the delicious bread being made! I stopped in to try some and it was amazing! Freshly made and hot! So yummy!

Hot Tandoori Naan flat bread made fresh in their ovens! They also have their bread in sealed 3-​packs ready to go!
Samoon or Sommun bread on Fridays!
Unilocal has incorrectly marked them as closed but
they ARE OPEN all week except Sundays:
Mon-​Fri 9am — 4pm
Sat 8am — 2pm
Sun Closed
Indian /​Middle Eastern /​Persian /​Iraqi /​Tandoori /​Tanoori /​Naan /​Noon /​Tuftoon /​Taftoon /​bakery

I have been there only once so far. The bread is fresh, tasty, and affordable.

A most unlikely place for great bread. Ugly strip mall, hole in the wall locale. You walk in, a counter and some shelving. But behind the counter, some modern tandoor ovens pumping out large naan en masse. Got a pack for home and made pizza and steak wraps. Probably the farthest from what they intended but tasty nonetheless

If you’re in the mood for fresh bread, you should check out this place. It’s in a semi-​rundown strip mall, but once you step in, what’s outside doesn’t matter. The small, efficient shop has a tandoor that produces taftoon (Say that five times fast :-).
«Tafttoon» is Persian wholemeal flat bread, similar to Indian naan but generally larger and most cushiony. You can buy the bread pre-​packaged or fresh. Surprisingly, the bread is very inexpensive – I almost wanted to tell them to raise their prices.
If you happen to be in the mood for Persian kabobs as well as fresh bread, Real Kabob restaurant is right across from them. (August 2013)

For just selling bread, it’s amazing how much I love this place. They sell traditional middle eastern bread made fresh daily in a tanoor. Even if you’re not hungry, you will be once you walk in. The owners are very friendly and the service is always great. They have pre-​packaged bread (which I think they sell there and take to other places) but they always give me the bread that they just took out of the tanoor. I usually buy A LOT of bread — it’s not expensive at all especially compared to something like naan which costs more and the pieces are smaller. I make the comparison because I used to buy naan before I found this place. It doesn’t exactly take the same but it is similar.
I always eat the bread while I’m driving home from this place… can’t resist it :)

The World According to Noelle
Allergic Girl’s Guide to Life
«The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.» Jalal ad-​Din Rumi
International Bread is a diamond in the ruff. Its located in an old shopping center. The inside of International bread is brand new and über clean. They have a wonderful selection of middle eastern flat bread. The Khubz (middle eastern flat bread) is cooked in a traditional fashion. They sell plain and sweet varities of Khubz. Be sure to bring cash because I don’t believe they accept debit/​credit cards. The parking lot is small but its worth locating this bread shop. The owners are kind and personable.
Noelle’s Notes
AMAZINGLY delicious Khubz!