Baked Goods: a Mediterranean-inspired bakery offering hummus, breads, pitas, and savory baked good
Part Time vendor

1786 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA
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Mahalab Bakery offers artisanal Mediterranean products. Our baked goods are naturally fermented and filled with unique ingredients and fillers. Established in January 2020, we strive to serve the Greater Boston area with a new taste of savory baked goods.

Mahalab Bakery serves a strictly savory array of golden-crusted baked goods. First among them are fatayers, Levantine stuffed pies that come filled with spinach, feta, and wild oregano, or roasted peppers and crumbly goat cheese, or, if your palate is craving a New England twist, acorn squash, ricotta, and sage.

The true star here is the dough, which is springy, complex, and generously doused with the highest-quality olive oil. The pastry dough also has a distinct ingredient: mahalab, the nutty, floral spice made from the ground seed of a cherry tree found along the Mediterranean and the Middle East.

Owner Ayham Haddad, who began baking as a teenager in Jordan, moved to the U.S. over a decade ago and began selling his breads and pastries at Boston-area farmers markets. He soon amassed a word-of-mouth following, and opened this brick-and-mortar store in the spring of 2024, challenging customers to think beyond associating a coffee-and-pastries outing with sugar.