Gendusa John Bakery Inc

Best French bread in the City. Always fresh, soft, and good price!! A neighborhood bakery with all kinds of breads.

I love the Gendusa Bakery. They don't sell their bread retail, yet if you walk by and door is open, they'll gladly sell you as many loaves as you want. For a whole $1.50 a loaf.John Gendusa was the originator of the fluffy loaf of bread with flat ends that Bennie and Clovis Martin used in their poboy sandwiches given out free to the striking streetcar engineers in 1929. They're still the best and used by numerous restaurants, including the takeout shop right about the corner, Zimmer's Seafood, which has one of the best shrimp poboys I have tasted.The Gendusa bakery opened in 1922 and has been operating at the Mirabeau Avenue location since 1996.

Someone actually wrote a review saying the bread goes stale really quickly.Sometimes it's embarrassing to be an American.That's what fresh bread does. That's with no preservatives and Baker's yeast and fluffy and delicious light puffy wonder baking is like. Omg ! It has a downside it doesn't stay fresh for 12 days. Fortunately people in New Orleans still have some European in their blood which is why there are places like Gendusa's flourishing in our neighborhoods- just like other parts of the civilized world - but not Ohio. Yeah it goes stale after six hours which is why there's bread putting and home made croutonsBut oh those first six hours! One a home smoked shrimp Po boy. Thank you Gendusas

It's alright. The bread goes stale really quickly though so finish the loaf within 6 hours!

Best French bread in New Orleans! Go to the back door & they'll sell you a loaf for $1.50.

This bread is awesome!!!! I had a po boy at Giorlandos and the bread made the Po Boy!!! My wife had the Muffaletta and that was the bread was Gendusa as well; perfect flavor!!!

I went to a Restaurant Supplier Convention back in the early 1980's. I tried every poyboy bread there and John Gendusa was the the absolute best. I continued to buy from them for the next 15 years that I was in the restaurant business in New Orleans. I didn't know it at the time but this is where they poyboy bread was invented, everyone else just copies the original.