Creme Brûlée is too delicious to be reserved for special occasions. Also, we believe that it should be platform for fun and exotic flavors.

Like Joan Jett, we think it’s our job to carry the torch.

Inspiration
CremeBru.LA was inspired by decades of too-infrequent and too-expensive meals in fine dining restaurants which always ended with two things: Luscious Creme Brûlée with its crackling sugar crust and a lingering question. “Why do we only eat this a few times a year?”

The Beginning of the Beginning
That question nagged at us for years, but in 2020, when the pandemic shut down indoor dining (never mind fine dining), “a few times a year” became “not at all.” We began perfecting our techniques and launched underground in Los Angeles, first out of our driveway, then through delivery and at pop-ups.

As much as we loved our classic Vanilla, we remembered that some of our favorite restaurants offered Creme Brûlée in a variety of even more refined flavors. We began with options we had tasted elsewhere, which started our CremeBru.LAB. That was when we realized that, like ice cream, Creme Brûlée should be a platform - a vehicle for subtle and not-so-subtle flavors.

The Real Beginning
After relocating to Amherst, Massachusetts in late 2020, we launched at the Amherst Farmer’s Market in April, 2021 and sold out our first two weeks. Within months we had expanded to the Easthampton Farmer’s Market, The Mill District Farmer’s Market, the Winter Farmer’s Market Hampshire Mall and soon the Northampton Farmer’s Market (starting in 2022). We’ve been very fortune to collaborate with amazing venues like Black Birch Vineyard and the nationally renowned Treehouse Brewing Company.

In addition to our regular markets and pop-ups, we expanded into catering events from bar mitzvahs, birthdays, engagement parties and weddings to corporate events with clients including the Amherst Area Chamber of Commerce, Amherst College, Bain Capital and Greenfield Community College, among others.

We’re proud to work with local partners and purveyors including Atkins Farms, Amherst Coffee, Bergeron Sugar House, Fogbuster Coffee. Hall Poultry Farm and Mapleline Farm.