I’m the owner of the Allegro Hearth Bakery. As my bakery supplies Coca with baked goods, I’m familiar with the breads they use.

Just wanted to note that pumpernickel bread is made from rye flour. In it’s original German form, I think it was all rye, though in the U.S., most bakers add wheat flour and caraway seeds. Bakers also use a variety of ingredients to darken the bread; we use cocoa powder.

Coca uses both our pumpernickel and our regular rye. Maybe the server accidentally gave you the rye instead of the pumpernickel.

Omar

Yes, it sounds like the server needed some educating, and the menu needing some updating.

As in so many places, what the management thinks or tries to do, is not always what the chef or server knows/understands.

You really have to ask questions . . . so many restaurants claim fresh, local, seasonal, etc. (as do some grocery stores), but those words are all relative, so you have to know what to ask.