Sunny Girl, the North End café that turned housemade English muffins into a neighborhood obsession, is spinning off a to-go-only production bakery on Fleet Street. The tiny shop will crank out muffins for the café’s stacked sandwiches and sell bagged muffins directly to locals, giving Commercial Street some breathing room while handing muffin fans a new spot to stock up.
City filing spells out the operation
Per the Boston Licensing Board voting agenda, Darkest Before Dawn LLC, doing business as Sunny Girl, applied for a Common Victualler license for a 285-square-foot bakery at 38B Fleet St that lists Peter J. Fiumara II as manager and proposed hours of 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. The paperwork describes a full kitchen with storage and an employee bathroom, and confirms there will be no seating, so the space is set up strictly for takeout.
Board sign-off reported by local outlets
Local coverage indicates the Licensing Board voted on June 4 to allow retail sales at the Fleet Street address. Universal Hub reported that the board approved retail sales for a bakery that will “only use its ovens to make English muffins.” That green light clears Sunny Girl to both bake and sell its signature product out of the new North End storefront.
How the bakery will feed the café
Most of the muffins baked on Fleet Street will travel about a block to Sunny Girl’s original Commercial Street counter, where they serve as the base for the breakfast and lunch sandwiches that put the spot on the map. Customers will also be able to walk into the Fleet Street shop and grab bags of muffins to go. As reported by WhatNow, the compact space will not have seating and will concentrate on production and retail sales only. The Sunny Girl team could not be reached for comment at the time of that report.
Where Sunny Girl fits in
Sunny Girl launched in spring 2023 and is run by chef-owner Jesse Rosen and co-owner Peter Fiumara, according to the café’s site, with the original counter at 252 Commercial St still serving as home base in the North End. Coverage of the business’s growth, including its planned South Boston café at Perkins Square this summer, has noted that the brand leans heavily on its housemade English muffins and all-day egg sandwiches as its calling card.
Local baking context
Dedicated production spaces for baked goods are increasingly common around Greater Boston. Local food incubation documents highlight an English muffin manufacturing operation at CommonWealth Kitchen’s Dorchester facility, a setup that reflects growing demand for co-manufacturing and small-batch output. Materials from MassCEC describe how shared-use facilities can help small brands boost production without taking on full-scale standalone plants.
There is no public opening date yet for the Fleet Street bakery, and the owners are steering fans to the brand’s Instagram for updates. WhatNow directs readers to follow @sunnygirl_boston for the latest announcements.
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