New Paris Bakery, which has been in business for more than 100 years, shut its doors for good on Saturday.
Roula Kappas, the owner of New Paris Bakery, hands a box of pastries to a customer days before the shop in Brookline closes after more than 100 years in business.
It’s the end of an eclair era: one of the oldest shops in Brookline shut its doors on Saturday, for good. New Paris Bakery first opened in Boston in 1919. In 1929, it moved to Brookline Village, where it became a mecca for generations of eclair-seeking hordes.Roula Kappas and her late husband took ownership in 1988. Now she’s moving back to Greece and bidding farewell to the customers who’ve become like family to her.Kappas said she did try to sell the business so the tradition could live on, but buyers balked at the cost involved in updating an old-fashioned shop.
“In a way, I’m glad,” Kappas said. “Because they would have mixed it up with their own recipes. 104 years of New Paris Bakery, I think, is more than enough. And it gives me some solace and happiness to know that it will leave as New Paris Bakery.”She said she knows the long-time customers will miss the sense of community that flourished in the neighborhood institution. The customers have also told her how much they'll miss the treats.
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