This story originally appeared in the May 24, 2024 edition of the LINK Reader. To get stories like this first, subscribe here. LINK nky partnered up with Northern Kentucky University’s Advanced News Media Workshop class and NKU’s student newspaper The Northerner for this series on the changing face of Northern Kentucky.
Read the rest of the stories in this series here: Get the morning's headlines right to your inbox with our newsletters Every Weekday Morning (The Daily LINK) Saturday Morning (The Weekend LINK) Decades ago, in a quiet German village, a pastry chef opened his bakery at dawn. He carefully prepared the dough using sacred baking traditions gathered from across Europe. Sixty years later, his grandson continues the same story, opening the bakery at dawn just as his grandfather did all those years ago.
Instead of Germany, though, the bakery is in Highland Heights. The Servatii’s Northern Kentucky location is one of several immigrant-founded restaurants on this side of the Ohio River that help connect the area to cultures from around the world. Servatii’s, Highland Heights (one of 15 Greater Cincinnati locations) (German bakery) Distance from Servatii’s, Highland Heights, to Münster, Germany: 4,240 miles Proudly dubbed the “no fakery bakery,” Servatii’s prides itself on honest products made with the same techniques that started in Germany.
Café Servatii was founded by George Gottenbusch in Münster, Germany. His son, Wilhelm, brought the Servatii .
