Bear Claw Bakery and Cafe

Specialties

Wide variety of pastries, sandwiches, panini, soups, salads or cakes to order. So whether your picking up your morning coffee, getting some danish for the office, or grabbing a sandwich on your lunch break or before work. Stop by for some rare, small business hospitality and quality baked goods. We also do cakes for all occasions, including wedding cakes, and offer catering services.

History

Established in 1982.

The local origin of the BearClaw can be traced back to1912, When Albert Hoeffer opened a bakery on 4^th and MacDonald in downtown Richmond. Bringing European baking skills to the East Bay. Albert, and son Ben, continued the old world recipes and original ways of making traditional pastries, cakes and breads. For over 60 years their bakery provided the rapidly growing local community with popular, quality baked goods.

That tradition has been carried on through the present at the Bear Claw Bakery in Pinole as Mike and Terri Hoeffer-​Stott maintain the family heritage of using fresh, high-​quality ingredients, the daily baking and providing personal service.

A new generation of Stotts are being trained to learn how to carry on the family baking tradition. Sons Luke and J.J. along with sisters Lucie and Gracie help out parents Mike and Terri at the bakery. In fact, it is not uncommon to walk in and see up to three generations of the Hoeffer family working side by side at the bakery.

Meet the Business Owner

Stott Family S.

Business Owner

Here is our family Taffe (grandma), who worked in our Hoeffer Family bakery in Richmond until 1975. Mike and Terri who currently run Bear Claw Bakery &Café and have since 1982. Our son Luke who is currently an E.R.nurse in Humboldt county. Their son JJ who is teaching Math at Kennedy High School in Richmond, and his wife Irish who is a nurse at John Muir Hospital. Our daughters Lucie who works with preschool age part time at George Miller Center and Gracie who attends High School at Pinole Valley. We also are blessed to have the addition of Kais and Leoni J.J. and Irish’s son and daughter. We will soon have a new photo to reflect our recent changes and additions.