A Neighborhood Bakery with a Magpie Spirit

A bakery 30 years in the making

Magpie describes its own story as 30 years in the making, and that's the honest shape of it: not an overnight concept, but decades of baking that finally got a storefront of their own. Melanie Stripeikis is the owner and baker behind it all, and the Bloomingdale shop is where that long apprenticeship in flour and butter shows up in public — a working bakery and café where everyday coffee-and-pastry visits sit beside cakes and desserts planned for the biggest days on a family's calendar.

Rather than telling that story in words, the bakery mostly tells it through the case. What you can explore here on the website — the rotating bakery selection, the café drink board, custom cakes, wedding desserts, and catering conversations — is the story, updated daily.

Why a magpie?

Magpies are the collectors of the bird world — famous for gathering small, shiny treasures and carrying them home. The bakery case works exactly the same way. Each morning it fills with a fresh collection of small treasures: golden pastries dusted with sugar, fruit bars, tarts, cookies, a cake dressed for someone's celebration. And like any good collection, it changes — the case rotates with the day and the season, so no two visits show you quite the same gathering. That's the Magpie spirit: come see what's been collected today.

What the bakery believes in

Magpie's convictions are the ordinary bakery virtues, held stubbornly. They're not a marketing exercise — they're the operating constraints the shop actually runs on, and they explain most of what a first-time visitor notices about the place:

• Scratch baking. Doughs, fillings, and frostings made in-house, the slow way — because you can taste the difference between baked-here and shipped-in.
• Small batches. Baking what the day calls for instead of stocking deep inventory keeps the case fresh and honest, even when it means a favorite sells through.
• Neighbors. One storefront, known faces, and customers who come from Bloomingdale and the towns around it — the kind of bakery people fold into their week.

From the Magpie collection

Photography by Skyland Creative · See the full gallery.

One storefront, many reasons to stop

Magpie's only storefront is in Riverside Square in Bloomingdale — the Visit page has hours, directions, and first-visit tips. Start with the bakery menu for the shape of what Magpie bakes, then use the live ordering services when you need current availability; the case rotates, and the live menus own the day-to-day selection.

Being a bakery and a café matters here: the drink counter turns a pastry stop into a small ritual, and the ritual is what turns first-timers into regulars. Some people come for a weekday coffee, some for the weekend pie, some once a year for a cake that has to be exactly right — the same case serves all three.

Celebrations begin with a conversation

For a birthday, wedding, office gathering, or another occasion, the relevant planning page explains the next step without promising a date or design before the bakery reviews it. The cake gallery shows real past Magpie work if you want to see the range first.

• Custom cakes
• Wedding desserts
• Catering and business gifts