Our Story…

On a sweltering morning in August of 2009, a U haul truck left the US Marine base in Quantico, Virginia – The Crossroads of the Corps.

With mixed emotions, I headed north to FBM Baking, in Cranbury, New Jersey – the sole distributor of European artisan bakery equipment on the east coast of the US.

I was leaving the only life I had ever known or wanted, to embark on a journey filled with uncertainty, excitement, loss and joy – for a dream that had begun thirty five years earlier as I walked with my grandfather to a local bakery in Leverkusen, Burrig, Germany.

The plan was, to pick up an antique pine pastry case, a French made Retarder/Proofer, and a monstrous Alsacean bread oven – and arrive later the following day at what was then a small family diner called The Golden Goose.

With the help of Marines from a local recruiting station, each 1,000 pound oven was laboriously lifted through the front window of the building - thereby firmly planting the seeds of The Blue Door on a nondescript hill overlooking a busy corner of Broad Blvd and State Road in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.

Semper Fidelis …