Calibella – a Bushwick bakery that’s muy buena
Eye On Real Estate
Calibella Bakery’s name is the words “Cali bella” squished together, meaning “beautiful Cali” – and the Colombian shop owners don’t mean California.
They’re thinking of Cali, a city in Colombia’s sugar-cane growing region. A song that’s perennially popular in Andean countries boasts of the beauty of its women: “Las caleñas son como las flores,” it goes, which means, “The women of Cali are like flowers.”
The baked goods at 164 Wyckoff Ave. are a thing of beauty, too – such as the pandebono, a roll shaped like a ring that’s made with yuca flour and cheese and is muy colombiano. Or there’s a donut Calibella’s cooks created, which is sliced in half and put back together like a sandwich, with pudding-y vanilla cream as the middle layer.