Via Oliveto Bakery - Pasquale's Glorious Flatbread

QUICK FACTS

Located: 

Barrie, ON 

Established:

1988

Owned By:

Pasquale and Mayra Zappia

Produces:

• Flatbread in a variety of flavours, including:
  • Herbs & Onion;
  • Sesame Seed;
  • Everything;
  • Sesame Pretzel;
  • Original Sea Salt.

Season:

Year-round.

Growing Practices:

Pasquale's Glorious Flatbread only use quality ingredients (both domestic and imported) and use extra virgin olive oil in all flat bread.

Producer Website:

• https://flatbreads.ca/
• Instagram: @gloriousflatbread

About:

When Italian-born Pasquale Zappia and his wife Mayra opened Via Oliveto in Toronto in 1988, the business was a combination restaurant/bakery serving area hotels, restaurants and caterers. A baker by trade, Pasquale handled the bakery. Mayra ran the restaurant, followed by their sons Patrick and Adriano. Pasquale had always put his own spin on Italian bread making, but when he began baking crispy artisanal flatbread crackers — essentially a European-style flatbread cracker — he truly found his niche.

As demand for the flatbread spiked among their food service customers, it became Pasquale’s sole focus. In 2006, after 19 successful years, the family sold the restaurant and the sons joined their father in the bakery as it relocated to a 2,000 square-foot facility in Toronto. In 2007, they started packaging the product for retail sales in a few local food shops and “Pasquale’s Glorious Flatbread” was born. Soon, it was also selling in area supermarkets, into the USA and now Via Oliveto has expanded operations into a 17,000 square foot location in Barrie. Adriano and Patrick handle the day-to-day operations at the bakery now and Pasquale checks in each month and he is very happy to see his bakery has grown and flourished.

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