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Kowalski Quality Baked Goods was a No-Maj bakery owned by Jacob Kowalski and located at 443 Rivington Street in New York.[1][2]

History[]

Jacob Kowalski had long dreamed of opening a bakery as his grandmother had instilled a love of baking from an early age. She also left him her recipe for paczki.

In early December 1926, he applied for a loan but lacked the necessary capital and was denied. During his trip to the bank, he encountered Newton Scamander and was pulled into an adventure with him.

Jacob in his bakery FBF

Jacob smiling happily in his bakery

Though Jacob's memories of this brush with the wizarding world were later erased, Newt anonymously left him a suitcase full of silver Occamy egg shells that he could use as collateral for a bank loan, allowing him to open the bakery in early 1927.[3]

Kowalski Bakery menu

The Bakery's available products

It offered many Polish speciality cakes and pastries including piernik, paczki, faworki (aka chrust), babka, makowiec, and sernik.

Breads offered included obwarzanek krakowski, challah, angielka, and slask.

It was particularly famous for its imaginative pastries. Unknown to most No-Majs (including Kowalski himself for a time) the pastries' shapes resembled the magical beasts that Jacob had encountered with Newt. Before he regained his memories, he claimed that the inspirations for his creations came to him in dreams. Henry was Jacob's assistant at the bakery.[4]

At some point after the bakery's opening, Queenie Goldstein visited the location, triggering the return of Jacob' memories.[4]

In 1932, Jacob imagined Queenie in the bakery with him, whom he missed most dearly. Eulalie Hicks and her cousin Stanley and his friends staged a scene outside the bakery, when it looked like Lally was being harassed by the men, which Jacob went outside to call off. Lally revealed that the scene was staged and that she wanted to see that Jacob was brave, which he was.[5]

Jacob later married Queenie in the bakery, once she had left Gellert Grindelwald's side, with several of their friends, including Bunty Broadacre, Newt and Theseus Scamander, and Porpentina Goldstein. Albus Dumbledore watched outside the bakery on a bench while the wedding took place.[5]

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New York, NY, USA
NewYork
Streets 43rd Street · 44th Street · 5th Avenue · 6th Avenue · Barclay Street · Broadway · Brooklyn Bridge · Canal Street · Centre Street · East 73rd Street · Lexington Avenue · Lispenard Street · Macdougal Street · Manhattan Bridge · Mercer Street · Monroe Street · Pike Street · Rivington Street · Times Square · W. Elsworth Street · West 24th Street
Boroughs The Bronx · Brooklyn · Manhattan · Queens
Neighbourhoods 11th District · Diamond District · Liberty Island · Broadway · Tribeca
No-Maj places of interest Alonzo Zema Paper & Twine (439 Rivington Street) · Blanchard & Gable · Brobeck Theatre · Brockman Theatre · C. D. McLeod's Bargain Store and Curiosity Shop · Central Park · Central Park Zoo · Clipper Building · Columbia Bank · E. Wheeler Multigraph Machine Co. · Garrice & Sonnleitner Co. (241 Barclay Street) · Ginzberg Delaunay · Glovers Comedy Theatre · Jacob Kowalski's apartment (435 Rivington Street) · Janek & Pelowski Co. Handkerchiefs · The Kingly Court · Kowalski Quality Baked Goods (443 Rivington Street) · L. Caruso Music · M. N. Hora Co. · M. Voltolini & Co. · Macy's · Moreton Dale Canning Factory · New York City Hall · Orpheum · Pegasi Theatre · S.J. Bernstein Watches · Second Salem Church · Shaw Tower · Singer Building · Sovereign Theatre · Statue of Liberty · Steen National Bank (1790 6th Avenue) · V. Hahn's antiques shop (239 Barclay Street) · Valerie Valion Perfumers · Voclain & Co. · W. C. Morritt Theatre · Warners' Theatre · Woolworth Building (233 Broadway)
Wizarding places of interest The Blind Pig (124 Macdougal Street) · Ebbingdales Wonders for Wizards · Fleury's Fancy Fauna (33 Centre Street) · Goldstein sisters' apartment (679 West 24th Street) · Magical Congress of the United States of America (233 Broadway) · McTawny Broomsticks · The New York Academy of House-Elf Training · Wizard Broadway
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