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Save our shop — Finchley bakery is fighting closure

April 15, 2013 16:27
Barry Paraskeva at work in the Parkway Patisserie kitchen

BySandy Rashty, Sandy Rashty

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Customers of the Parkway Patisserie in Finchley are campaigning against the plans of its landlord to close the kosher bakery and use the site as part of a development of offices, luxury flats and a library.

If Parkway closes in Finchley — where it served its first customer the day after Pesach in 1967 — its owners say the other branches in Golders Green and Wembley will also shut down.

A “save our shop” petition has accumulated nearly 1,000 signatures in a few weeks.

The parents of Parkway director Rabbi Herschel Gluck, Nata and Avraham, founded the bakery. The Glucks were joined by Kyriacos Paraskeva, a Greek Orthodox man who had worked as a pastry chef with Rabbi Gluck’s uncle, Alfred Dux. Parkway focuses on central European recipes and is known for its cheesecake and cream pastries.