Now open: Bonita Michoacan Bakery in Kansas City, Kansas
- Charles Ferruzza
- The new Bonita Michoacan Bakery is across the street from the taqueria and grocery of the same name.
All Soul’s Day — known in Mexico as Dia de los Muertos or “Day of the Dead” — officially falls on Wednesday, November 2 (although some communities will be celebrating the feast day — “commemorating those who have died and are now in Purgatory,” according to one local priest — early: on Sunday, October 30th) but the two-month-old Bonita Michoacan Bakery in Kansas City, Kansas is already selling the sugar-dusted yeast bread, pan de muerto, served during the traditional Day of the Dead festivities.
The body-shaped loaves are stacked in one of the glass-front pastry cases lining the walls of the bake shop, which may hold the record for being the local bakery with the longest hours: 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week. There’s a coffee machine in the building that bews Starbucks coffee, in case you’d like brand-name java with your churro or glazed breakfast pastry. And yes, there are doughnuts.
