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Tuesday, January 27, 2026Del Sur Bakery Chef Nominated for “Pastry Chef of the Year”
WGN9 / by Ji Suk Yi / January 23, 2026 Del Sur Bakery’s Chef Justin Lerias has just been nominated for the Banchet Awards Pastry Chef of the Year. His Ravenswood bakery is blending the flavors of the Philippines with timeless Midwestern techniques. In a space where tradition, creativity, and community thrive. Chef Lerias joins us now with more. View More Here.
Thursday, March 20, 2025Ravenswood Gets a Bakery and Cafe Offering Filipino Flavors Folded into Classic Pastries
WTTW - Play List / Daniel Hautzinger / March 17, 2025 What did you get for your 23rd birthday? For Justin Lerias, it’s the realization of a dream conceived during high school of opening a Filipino pastry spot, Del Sur Bakery & Cafe. But calling the March 29 opening of the shop a gift overlooks the year of work, planning, and crowdfunding that has gone into it since Lerias first took out a lease on the space at 4639 N. Damen Ave. in Ravenswood almost exactly a year ago. And it also belies the creativity
Tuesday, January 14, 20256 New Restaurants, Bars And Bakeries Coming To Lincoln Square And Irving Park — Plus More Food News
Block Club Chicago / by Alex V. Hernandez / January 10, 2025 The new Small Cheval has already greeted customers, Del Sur Bakery hit its fundraising goal and Irene’s Finer Diner is planning a spring reopening. LINCOLN SQUARE — A much-anticipated bakery is gearing up to open this spring in Lincoln Square after hitting a fundraising goal, while a few other neighborhood restaurants closed, but some only temporarily, at the end of last year. Small Cheval, 2156 W. Montrose Ave., officially opened its Lincoln
