Canto 6 Bakery, Jamaica Plain, Boston

Canto 6 was a beloved bakery and cafe in the Boston neighborhood of Jamaica Plain. It opened in 2006 and closed in 2016.

“After tossing around potential names for almost a year, the women decided to call their bakery Canto 6, from Dante’s Inferno, where Canto VI describes the circle of hell reserved for gluttons. ‘We always thought we’d end up there,’ says Emmott.”    –Leigh Belanger, Boston.com, January 17, 2007 (link no longer active)

Contributed by Adam Cohen-Leadholm (Bowdoin, ’07)

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