With a love of baking, owner Christin Morse originally started Manna Bread From Heaven out of her home in 2016, she said.
“Having homemade bread is such a rare thing, and people would love to have it provided to them,” Morse said about starting her home bakery.
Before long, Morse said she had over 500 customers, her business turning into a way to provide for her children. With the help of some friends and the community, Manna Bread From Heaven opened a bakery storefront in 2017, Community Impact previously reported.
Open for five years, Morse decided to find a new location at the end of the bakery’s lease last summer and found a property along Commerce Street in Old Town Tomball.
“It was designed as a potential restaurant, but it was more of a shell of a building,” Morse said. “It was like a shed with a kitchen and a bathroom in it.”
The summer of 2022 was the transition period for the bakery-turned-restaurant, Morse said, with new equipment brought in and construction and design underway at the Commerce Street property.
“We actually took everything, all the employees, and moved over to this location in November,” Morse said. “And then we just did a lot of training.”
Officially opening last December, Manna Bread From Heaven is now a full-service restaurant open six days a week.
“It was just a line out the door for hours,” Morse said about the grand opening. “It was standing room only. It was so fun.”
Inside, the interior is intentionally very simple and clean, without many signs or writing on the wall, Morse said.
“The breaking of bread is the reason that people, a lot of times, meet,” Morse said. “There’s usually intention behind that meetup. We want to facilitate a place of quiet and peace where people can have a conversation without all the distractions.”
When it comes to the restaurant’s menu, Morse said Manna Bread From Heaven serves cafe items like paninis and breakfast sandwiches alongside coffee and tea selections, such as lattes, espresso and Earl Grey. The business also sells its homemade bread, with varieties like focaccia and sourdough.
“Slowly we’re moving into more culinary and cultural flavors,” Morse said.
With the restaurant having been open for over six months now, Morse said her favorite part is watching people connect.
“We offer the food as an invitation to come and sit down, but if they have a good experience here and a memory, sometimes it’s even life-changing moments they’ll have in here—I love that,” Morse said.
Manna Bread From Heaven
306 Commerce St., Tomball
832-843-3999
www.mannabread.com
Hours: Mon.-Sat. 8 a.m.-4 p.m., closed Sun.
