The cake boss is coming to town.
Bartolo “Buddy” Valastro announced plans this week to open San Antonio outposts of his Buddy V’s Ristorante and Carlo’s Bakery family of restaurants at The Shops at La Cantera. Construction on the 7,500-square-foot Buddy V’s is slated to start in the next week and a half, but an opening date has not been set for either.
Valastro has earned a legion of fans since making a nationwide debut on the reality show “Cake Boss” in 2009. The show focused on his New Jersey-based Carlo’s, which has since been duplicated at more than 20 locations across the country and one in Brazil. Valastro operates Buddy V’s properties at casinos in Las Vegas and Bethlehem, Penn.
Nicole Valdes, spokeswoman for Valastro, said Thursday that area residents can count on regular Cake Boss sightings in the Alamo City.
“He will be down, of course, when we first open, just making sure everything is exactly as he wants it to be,” Valdes said. “ But for him, he just goes places he falls in love with. He really likes to pick places he enjoys going to, and he enjoys going to San Antonio.”
Valdes said the San Antonio Buddy V’s will feature a large, open kitchen built around a wood-fired grill. The menu, she said, will be consistent with the other locations, focused on classic Italian-American staples and, of course, a generous dessert list. Chefs at the San Antonio store will spend time training with Valastro at his 30,000-square-foot facility in Jersey City.
“The goal for Buddy is to make sure the experience you’d have walking into his house is the same experience you’d have in any of his locations,” Valdes said.
For more information and regular updates, visit CarlosBakery.com, @CakeBossBuddy on Twitter, @BuddyValastro on Instagram or Facebook: Buddy Valastro.
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