‘09 Eats
Jubilee Cafe & Bakery Baking with Love for Nearly 70 Years By MEREDITH KAY Photography By AL RENDON
It’s the shock of bright fuchsia that assaults your senses first, then you realize just how well it blends with the pale orange, the iron chairs and the stunning chandelier that hangs majestically in the center of Jubilee Café & Bakery. However, once your senses switch their attention to the delicious smells emanating from the kitchen, it all just comes together. Only those businesses backed with a great team will succeed in today’s marketplace. There is so much competition, and the demands of consumers are changing rapidly. Most partnerships don’t last seven years, let alone seventy years, however, for one dynamic San Antonio couple, bringing Jubilee Café & Bakery 56
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to Lincoln Heights is the culmination of a family business restaurant empire that spans across forty years. In 1979, Barbara and Bill Harris opened the Daisy Tea Room and Cookie House in The Yard off McCullough. It then moved to North Star Mall, before the Harris family packed up and moved to Dallas, where they ran several Celebrity Café & Bakery locations. The concept became a franchise and they eventually sold the business and moved around a bit more, before finally settling back into their hometown to open Jubilee Cafe & Bakery. Next year will mark the 70th wedding anniversary for Bill and Barbara Harris, both graduates of Brackenridge High School, and if
FOOD
Breakfast and lunch featuring an array of soups, salads, sandwiches, comfort food and baked goods.
DECOR
Bright, colorful, and charming with ample comfortable seating.
PRICE
Salads $5 - 15 Sandwiches $9 - $10 Jubillee Favorites 10 - $14