Kim Kedeshian owner of K’s Bakery may reopen at the end of the month in Palisades.
Kim Kedeshian of K Bakery provided several dessert selections for the Rustic Canyon luncheon for seniors held on June 5. Kedeshian’s reputation of great deserts, meant that many people skipped the sandwiches and went straight to the cookies and pastries.
Bemoaning the fact that this editor was late in the line and went without a sweet, K’s owner, Kedeshian offered some great news. She plans to return to her location in the Palisades Highlands from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. five days a week.
Although she, like many Palisadians lost their home in the Palisades Fire, the building that housed her business K Bakery at 548 Palisades Drive remained intact. It is undergoing remediation now.
During the evacuation from the Palisades after the January Fires, she took a temporary space at The Colony in order to ensure her staff could continue working.
But on June 5, she echoed an employee’s comment, “It’s nice, but it just isn’t the Palisades.” So, they’re coming back.
Prior to the fire, Palisades residents heaped praise on K Bakery “I recommend Kim’s Bakery on Palisades Drive, just off Sunset. They have a great variety of fresh baked goods (the bakers come in early in the morning). They also have a great number of homemade soups and salads as well as many ‘traditional dinner meals.’”
Another reader said, “We had a great vegetarian pasta dish from Kay’s Bakery the other night. I don’t know how they got such flavor out of so few ingredients. It also included a piece of delicious chocolate pie and it was delicious.”
Others raved about the eatery’s chicken pot pies, turkey meatloaf or lasagna made with meat or without.
Kedeshian, the mother of four, won the Bob Sage Business Person of the Year Award from the Palisades Rotary Club in 2018.
Kedeshian was originally an appellate lawyer who received a degree from Pepperdine and passed the bar in New York and California. She began her restaurant career in 2007 after tasting a Bundt cake – and said she could do better.
Yes, she “built” a better cake that people purchased and sent as gifts. She opened her first store in 2011, in a 600-sq.-ft. space in the little mall above Von’s, and Kedeshian’s success was instant.
She became the source for school lunches at Calvary, St. Matthew’s, Seven Arrows and Montessori Elementary school and Pacifica High School.
People driving up to the Highlands after work knew they could run in and pick up a complete meal – and dessert.
When her business reopens it will join two other eateries that have recently reopened in that location, Spuzzo’s and Moku Sushi.
K Bakery will reopen soon on Palisades Drive.
Gosh, I wish she was in the Village somewhere!
It will be so great to have her back.
I hope it happens soon!
My son, a St. Matthew’s student, has asked when K Bakery/K Kids will come back since he was evacuated and never got to have his hot lunch that first day back from winter break. He and so many other students miss the K Bakery classics and can’t wait til they are back on campus.