Selam Bakehouse
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ዳቦ · St. Paul, MN

The breads of home,
baked for everyone.

A small Ethiopian bakehouse in St. Paul, baking the breads and sweets of home — and setting a place for everyone who comes to the table.

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  • Stone-milled teff
  • A living wage for every baker
  • A box feeds a neighbor
A spread of freshly baked Ethiopian breads — himbasha, honeyed dabo, and rolled injera — on a warm wooden table.
ሰላምwelcome
Baked this morning

What we keep

A bakery answers to its neighbors.

We measure a good week less by what we sold than by who sat down. These are the promises we are most careful about.

A place is set for everyone

No one is a stranger at a table. We bake so that anyone — neighbor, newcomer, or guest passing through — can be welcomed with something warm and made by hand.

Bread is how we belong

Our breads carry the recipes families brought with them across an ocean. To share them here is to say that what you came from has a home on this block, too.

Fair work, fairly paid

Every baker here earns a living wage and a real schedule. Good bread cannot be built on tired hands — the dignity of the people who make it comes first.

A portion always goes out the door

A share of every subscription box bakes bread for neighbors who are going without. Abundance is meant to be passed along, by hand, the way gursha is given.

Honest grain, kept whole

We mill teff and source flour from growers who tend their soil for the long run. Caring for the land is part of caring for the people it will feed next.

Made for the long table, not the quick sale

We would rather bake a little less and know your name than scale past the point of care. The good we build together is the whole point.

From the oven

This week's table

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Round golden himbasha bread scored in a sunburst pattern, dusted lightly with seeds.
Signature

Himbasha

$14

Cardamom celebration bread

A tender, lightly sweet wheat bread scented with cardamom and scored in a sunburst — baked for the days that deserve a little ceremony.

round loaf

Contains: wheat

A rolled stack of soft, spongy teff injera flatbread showing its lacy fermented surface.
TeffVegan

Injera

$11

Naturally fermented teff sourdough

Five sheets of teff injera, fermented slowly for that signature gentle sour and lacy eyes. Naturally gluten-free grain.

5 sheets
Bright orange lattice-like mushabek spirals glistening with saffron syrup.

Mushabek

$10

Saffron syrup spirals

Crisp golden spirals soaked in a light cardamom-saffron syrup. Festive, fragrant, and impossible to eat just one.

half dozen

Contains: wheat

Bread boxes

Set a standing place at the table.

A rotating box of the week's best baking — delivered or ready for pickup. A portion of every box bakes bread for a neighbor going without.

  • Pause, skip, or cancel whenever life shifts
  • Always fresh, never frozen
  • The same care, every single week
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A linen-lined box of assorted Ethiopian breads and a sweet, ready for the week.

The Weekly Table

A fresh bread box, every week

$32 / week

A rotating box of the week's best baking, delivered or ready for pickup each week. A portion of every box bakes bread for a neighbor.

  • Fresh-baked, never frozen
  • Pickup or local delivery
  • Pause or cancel anytime
  • Feeds a neighbor with every box

“It started the way most good things do — with too much bread and not enough people to give it to.”

Come by

There's a warm loaf with your name on it.

Find us in Hamline–Midway, St. Paul. Order ahead for pickup, or just follow the cardamom.

Hours & directions +1 (651) 555-0142