West Palm Beach just picked up two serious bread addresses, and they could hardly sit farther apart on the map. Downtown, The Daily Focaccia is now serving at 410 Evernia Street, Suite 118, on the Dixie Highway side of the building. Out west, Café Marseille, the French bakery run by Chef Jean Marseille, has grown from a GreenMarket stall into a shop of its own. One bakes Italian focaccia every morning and stacks it into sandwiches. The other turns French flour and French butter into sourdough, croissants and pastries. Between them, a good loaf is now a short drive from almost anywhere in the city.

The Daily Focaccia: bread first, sandwich second

The Daily Focaccia is built around a single product done carefully. The dough is made with organic ingredients and rests cold for a long stretch before it is pressed out by hand with organic olive oil and flaky sea salt. It goes into the oven every morning, and the shop is plain about its rule: nothing is held over from the day before. The goal is a slab that is crisp on the outside and soft in the middle, sliced and built to order.

The menu is a tight list of sandwiches on that bread, priced from $15 to $20. A few that show the range:

  • Italiano Bello ($16): mortadella, ricotta, pistachios, arugula and a balsamic glaze.
  • Siciliano Rustico ($18): Genoa salami, burrata, arugula, roasted peppers and garlic aioli.
  • Arrabbiata ($17): spicy capocollo, burrata, hot honey, heirloom tomatoes, arugula and pesto, for anyone who wants heat.
  • Al Mare ($19): smoked salmon, red onion, dill cream sauce and crispy capers.
  • Zio's Focaccia ($20): the big one, with prosciutto, mortadella, Genoa salami, provolone, lettuce, heirloom tomato and roasted garlic aioli.

Vegetarians are covered too. The Capri ($15) pairs mozzarella, cherry tomatoes, spinach and pesto, and the Primavera ($16) layers eggplant, roasted red peppers, spinach, cherry tomatoes and pickled red onion. Turkey and beef pastrami can be swapped in on request.

Hours are noon to 8 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and the shop is closed Sundays. One practical warning: because the bread is baked fresh each day, the kitchen can close early when it sells out, so an afternoon visit is safer than a last-minute dinner run. The Daily Focaccia also takes larger orders for office lunches, birthdays, meetings and boat days, which makes it a useful number to keep for anyone hosting downtown.

Why Evernia Street works for this

The location puts the shop a few blocks from Clematis Street, the waterfront and the downtown office towers, in the stretch of Evernia that has been filling in with places to eat. A focaccia sandwich is a lunch that travels well, so it suits the downtown pattern of grabbing something and walking it to a bench by the Intracoastal or back to a desk. For residents of the condos around Flagler Drive and the neighborhoods just north and south of downtown, it adds a bakery style that West Palm Beach has not had much of: Italian bread treated as the main event rather than a side.

Café Marseille: from market tent to its own counter

Across town, Café Marseille tells a different kind of story. Chef Jean Marseille built a following selling at the West Palm Beach GreenMarket, where the bakery appears on the city's official vendor roster for the 2025 to 2027 seasons. Now the business has a café of its own on the western side of the city, which makes it far easier for people who live out past the Turnpike to get their hands on his bread without waiting for Saturday.

The bakery describes its work as edible art, and the ingredient list backs that up: sourdough and pastries made with French flour and French butter. That choice matters more than it sounds. French flour and butter behave differently from standard American supplies, and bakers who chase a classic Parisian croissant or a tangy, open crumb sourdough often import them for exactly that reason. The result is the kind of laminated pastry and crusty loaf that usually means a trip downtown or to Palm Beach.

The café is open Sundays from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., a welcome option on the one day The Daily Focaccia is closed, and the bakery also offers delivery around West Palm Beach. Hours and location updates are posted on its Instagram account, @cafemarseille_fl, which is the best place to check before heading out.

Still at the GreenMarket on Saturdays

Opening a shop has not meant leaving the market. The West Palm Beach GreenMarket opened its 32nd season on Saturday, October 3, 2026, on the downtown waterfront, and Café Marseille remains on the vendor list. That gives downtown residents two ways to reach the same bakery: walk to the market on Saturday morning, or drive west for Sunday pastries.

Good bread, wherever you live in the city

West Palm Beach is a long city, stretching from the Intracoastal Waterway past the Turnpike, and where to buy great bread has often depended on which end of Okeechobee Boulevard you call home.

These two openings even that out. A downtown resident can pick up a focaccia sandwich on a weekday lunch break and still catch Café Marseille at the market on Saturday. A family west of the Turnpike now has a French bakery close to home for Sunday morning croissants. Both businesses are small, independent and built around a baker's own standards rather than a franchise playbook, which is exactly the kind of place a neighborhood tends to adopt as its own.

If you want to try both in one weekend, the math is simple: Saturday at The Daily Focaccia on Evernia Street, Sunday morning at Café Marseille. Go early on both days. Fresh bread has a way of running out.