{"id":76374,"date":"2025-12-20T09:11:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T09:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/76374\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T09:11:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T09:11:13","slug":"still-grieving-over-the-loss-of-provisions-check-out-geoff-rudaws-skylight-kitchen-a-bakery-serving-sandwiches-and-prepared-meals-pelham-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/76374\/","title":{"rendered":"Still grieving over the loss of Provisions? Check out Geoff Rudaw\u2019s Skylight Kitchen, a bakery serving sandwiches and prepared meals \u2013 Pelham Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Fresh<\/a> <\/p>\n

Fresh from the oven with Geoff Rudaw<\/p>\n

In the world of food and hospitality, Geoff Rudaw seems to have done it all.\u00a0 He spent the last three years at\u00a0 Conrad Hotel in lower Manhattan where he was executive chef; prior to that he ran his own catering business, the Westchester Culinary Society;\u00a0 and he has a two-decade history of running kitchen operations at prestigious hotels and restaurant groups.<\/p>\n

The one thing he hasn\u2019t done until now is run his own little retail place, a cafe that serves fresh baked goods, exotic sandwiches and high-end take-home meals for parents who are too busy to cook dinner, but don\u2019t want to order take-out.<\/p>\n

That place is Skylight Kitchen, which he launched last month in the space formerly occupied by Provisions Bakery.<\/p>\n

Skylight Kitchen offers a range of items,\u00a0 from signature sandwiches like the Thanksgiving turkey sandwich to exotic items like the churro croissant.<\/p>\n

Skylight Kitchen opened in November, but \u201cChef Geoff,\u201d as he\u2019s known, had been drafting a concept for it more than a year. He imagined creating a working environment close to home after working in the city for most of his career.\"\"<\/p>\n

\u201cI was traveling with my family, and I came across a similar concept\u2026 a local bakery\/coffee spot that also had a focus on healthy food,\u201d Rudaw explained.<\/p>\n

\u201dI really want to be a trusted place for culinary,\u201d he said. \u201cFrom planning events, to a place you can talk about food, to a place you can get fresh food.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moving into the Provisions space wasn\u2019t as easy at it sounded.\u00a0 Signing the lease to take over the space ended up taking much more time than he forecast, pushing his opening date into November instead of September, when schools opened.\u00a0 Rudaw displayed a zen-like attitude about his experience, conceding that even when you\u2019re trying to start a business, some things are just beyond your control.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrying to get everyone on my schedule is a challenge,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve got my own goals, but so does everybody else.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now that he\u2019s in business, Rudaw hopes to attract high school students by offering discounts on lunches. In addition to selling sandwiches, baked goods and and high-end coffee, Rudaw said he wants to provide in-home meals on a subscription model.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am not ready to take that leap\u2026 just until I\u2019m really happy that the team is trained with the coffee program and the bakery program, but the next step involved is home meals. Soup, salad, entrees that people can eat up easily in their own kitchen. \u201d<\/p>\n

Rudaw, who grew up in Rockland County, loves Pelham.\u00a0 He moved here just over a decade ago and his two daughters are in high school here. He likes being able to work close to home after so many years of commuting into the city.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s fun serving people I know, rather than transient strangers in a hotel,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Rudaw said he\u2019s extremely grateful for the support he\u2019s received just in the first few weeks of business.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s a more supportive community out there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresh from the oven with Geoff Rudaw In the world of food and hospitality, Geoff Rudaw seems to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-76374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}