Get ready for a fantastic evening at Guglhupf! Join us on Thursday, July 25th from 5:30pm-7:30pm for live music featuring Richard Younger: Purveyor of Fine Tunes! Enjoy great tunes, delicious food, and a vibrant atmosphere. Don’t miss out! “I had a roommate who described me as a ‘Purveyor of Fine Tunes’,”
Hey Trivia Fans, Get ready to flex your mental muscles and clink your glasses, because it’s Tap Tuesday Trivia Night! Starting at 6:00pm on Tuesday, July 16th. Come join us for a night of head-scratching questions, thirst-quenching brews, and good ol’ fashioned barstool camaraderie. Here’s what you can expect: Your hosts,
Get ready for a fantastic evening at Guglhupf! Join us on Thursday, July 18th from 5:30pm-7:30pm for live music featuring The Tritone Subs. Enjoy great tunes, delicious food, and a vibrant atmosphere. Don’t miss out! A Jazz trio based in Durham, NC featuring Dave Lewis on guitar, Greg Carney on
Aloha, mystery enthusiasts! 🌺 Join us for an unforgettable evening at our first-ever Murder Mystery Dinner—Hawaiian Lunacy on Friday, July 26th, from 6:30pm to 8:30pm! 🌴 While there’s no actual murder, you and your fellow guests will dive into a thrilling “who done it” at our exotic Luau. 🌺🌞 Here’s
Join us for our Neighborhood Cookout on Saturday, August 3rd! Get ready for an epic evening with Chef Dave and his crew sizzling up mouthwatering burgers, hot dogs, BBQ, and all your favorite picnic sides! Our front-of-house team is mixing up fun cocktails, refreshing lemonades, and serving plenty of ice-cold
Join us for our Beach Tote Summer Paint N Sip on Wednesday, July 24th from 6pm-8pm Come join us for a night with your friends drinking wine and painting some fun beach totes with local artist Amy Whitney! All supplies and a glass of wine included in the ticket price:
Calling all wine lovers in Durham! Join us for Tuscan Wine Night on Wednesday, July 10th from 6pm-8pm Join Kyle Keys from Winebow for a night of wine discovery! Learn about some amazing wines from Tuscany while indulging in Italian Brotzeit boards to share. Special wine pricing for pre-ordering bottles
Get ready for a fantastic evening at Guglhupf! Join us on Thursday, June 27th from 5:30pm-7:30pm for live music featuring The Charlie Garnett Trio. Enjoy great tunes, delicious food, and a vibrant atmosphere. Don’t miss out! The Charlie Garnett Trio is a group of Durham-based musicians playing jazz music. With
Join us for our 11th Annual Rose + Seafood Wine Dinner on Wednesday, June 19th! Johnny Rosati is back to bring us exquisite rose wines from A-Vin-Garde Wine Importers. Chef Dave has prepared amazing seafood dishes to pair with each of these wines. 5 courses, 5 wines, and special wholesale
Get ready for a fantastic evening at Guglhupf! Join us on Thursday, June 13th from 5:30pm-7:30pm for live music with Husbandos! Husbandos is an instrumental jazz fusion band from Durham, NC with a penchant for theatrics and whimsy. With influences from Japanese film composers like Joe Hisaishi, jazz legends like
Having grown up in Germany with farmer’s markets and an abundance of local specialized food purveyors such as bakers, butchers, cheese shops, local farmers and green grocers, Claudia Kemmet-Cooper, Guglhupf’s co-founder and owner, learned early on that food was so much more than just sustenance. Meal times were communal, and foods were carefully sought out and prepared by the women in her family. As with many traditional southern German families, food was often the center of social events or gatherings. Food also acted as a measure of one’s hospitality, sometimes igniting competitive spirits among the hosts that could be frightful to any unsuspecting guest as they would obediently nod to the “oh, you must try my…”.
After brushing shoulders with the corporate world, Claudia quickly turned back to the comforts of the kitchen, and set on the path that ultimately led to the establishment of the popular foodie destination Guglhupf Bakery & Patisserie. After completing her formal training in baking and pastry at Rischart’s in Munich, Claudia, and her then business partner and co-founder, Hartmut Jahn, began tackling the many thorny issues of transplanting a German bakery concept to the US.
Guglhupf Bakery & Patisserie opened in its current location in November of 1998 to enthusiastic customers standing in a line snaking out to the parking lot. In September of 2004 doors opened to the long anticipated Guglhupf Café in its architecturally unique building adjacent to the bakery. Another chapter had begun…
