Family-owned Passion Bakery Cafe has opened its third suburban Maryland location in Silver Spring.
The new 1,200-square-foot bakery and cafe is at 2211 Bel Pre Road, in the Aldi- and LA Fitness-anchored Plaza del Mercado.
Passion Bakery’s first location opened 20 years ago in Sandy Spring. There is a second location in Beltsville.
Brothers Melvin and Huber Mendoza emigrated to Arlington, Virginia, in 1990 from El Salvador, and began their baking career working at a pastry shop at the Watergate Hotel.
The Passion Cafe locations are a combination bakery (specializing in cakes, tarts and other pastries) and breakfast-lunch cafe.
Plaza del Mercado was recently redeveloped by owner Federal Realty Investment Trust, whose other Maryland properties include Bethesda Row, Congressional Plaza and Pike & Rose.
