{"id":314619,"date":"2026-10-26T16:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T16:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/314619\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T16:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T16:02:12","slug":"opafe-bakery-opens-at-southside-works-with-more-locations-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/314619\/","title":{"rendered":"Opafe bakery opens at SouthSide Works with more locations planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 The Opal Group cut the ribbon on Opafe, a new artisan bakery at the South Side Works.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The 2720 Sidney St. bakery features both scratch made baked goods and a full service coffee bar, with an emphasis on Vietnamese coffee, as well as matcha tea drinks. The bakery features a large menu of European and Asian inspired pastries, including matcha chocolate croissants and malassadas, and it plans to soon offer custom cakes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cWe try to see what people like and we will try to put a new item out every single day to see what everybody wants,\u201d Andy Qian, Opal Group CEO, said. \u201cWe just try to get some things (that are) new, like Japanese donuts. We bring some new ideas, I would say, like combining French style and ancient Asian flavor.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/10\/22\/opa-fe-bakery-opens-at-southside-works.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/10\/22\/opa-fe-bakery-opens-at-southside-works.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 The Opal Group cut the ribbon on Opafe, a new artisan bakery at the South Side&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[128315,128314,128313,73,75,74,38786,128312],"class_list":["post-314619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-andy-qian","tag-artisan-bakery","tag-opafe","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-south-side-works","tag-the-opal-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}