Formica Brothers Bakery Cafe

Specialties

Formica Bros. Bakery has been handcrafted Italian breads since 1919 serving wholesale customers through-​out southern New Jersey. Formica Bros. Bakery Café provides customers with the opportunity to enjoy a cup of Seattle’s Best coffee and enjoy one of Formica’s handcrafted breads, biscotti, Italian pastry’s, cakes. Located in the heart of Ducktown (The Italian Section of Atlantic City) next to the Walk. Formica’s café is wi-​fi enabled with outdoor seating in our alley way. Enjoy the bustle of this neighborhood café which is located next to Formica’s wholesale bakery.

History

Established in 1919.

Formica Brothers Bakery legacy began in 1919 when Francesco Formica opened the bakery with his wife Rosa bringing his legendary hand-​crafted breads to Atlantic City from Italy.

In 1928 Francesco moved the bakery to its current location (2310 Arctic Avenue), building a state of the art brick oven that the family kept burning continuously until 1988. In 1987 Frank D. Formica (grandson) purchased the business from his uncles and father.

Today Frank continues to make the hand-​crafted Italian bread with the same basic recipe that his grandfather used … yeast, flour, salt and local water. Frank will tell you himself, the secret is in the water that comes from below the New Jersey Pinelands The cedar trees indigenous to the Pinelands keep’s the water slightly acidic which allows the bakery to add more flour. This along with the yeast gives Formica Brothers Bakery bread its unique flavor and body.

Meet the Business Owner

Frank D.

Business Owner

Born 1952, raised in Ducktown section of Atlantic City

USAF Veteran of Vietnam War Era

Owner/​Operator Venice Bakery (1971 – 1979)

Former Executive Administrator of Resorts International Hotel

President Ducktown Revitalization Association (DRA)

Board member Dante Hall, Theatre of the Arts, Atlantic City

Freeholder Elect, Atlantic County 2^nd Distric

Chairman Freeholder Board