Val’s Bakery

among the many choices a bread lover has in chicagoland, vals rates with the best, in both taste and price. i have enjoyed their large selection for years and their bread can be purchased at many locations in the north suburbs.
its true that their storefront location is without charm or even product on display but this is a bakery and the employees are hard at work in the back cranking out the delicious product. go in, know what you want and ask the harried owner and he will bring out a warm, perfect loaf of godly delight for less than you pay retail
and no, the bread you buy at the storefront does not have ingredients listed. so what? there is nothing artificial in there. im happy every time. cant wait to try the poppy seed coffee cake, baked only on tues/​thurs

I’ve bought their Old Russian Rye and it’s great but want to know why the ingredients and nutritional information aren’t listed on the package. There’s no information at all (bought at Garden Fresh). I love the bread but won’t purchase again until that’s on the package.

I buy their bread at my local convenient store in Chicago. The 7 grain bread is absolutely delicious, and all the ingredients are natural. A healthy flavorful bread. Now is my go-​to bread.

I’ll give it an extra star since I like their bread and have been buying it at Jerry’s Fruit Market for years. However, their storefront in Skokie near the corner of Main & Crawford is a complete dump. I was in the area Friday afternoon and thought I’d stop in and see what else they have besides the offering on their limited shelf space allocated at Jerry’s.
I walked inside and saw nothing. No signs, no list of breads or pastries with prices, and even their glass case was completely empty. A buzzer went off when I walked in the door to alert someone in the back, which I assume is their bakery area.
All they had was a single plastic rack off to the side with nothing but some kind of dark Russian rye bread. Looking in a refrigerated or freezer case by the wall, I peeked in and saw nothing in there except for a few mysterious lumps in the bottom roughly the size of mushroom heads. I could not make out what those things were exactly and even if someone would want to eat them.
At that point, someone from the bakery greeted me at last and asked what I was looking for, as if I was supposed to have some idea despite the lack of signage for their offerings.
Of course, I asked about their whole wheat oat bran bread, which I buy at Jerry’s and my kids will eat too. He brought out a fresh loaf that cost about 25 cents less than Jerry’s price. Yes, it felt warm and tasted very fresh after I tore off a piece of a slice on the way home, but the trip to Val’s wasn’t worth it.
I’ll stick to buying their bread at Jerry’s every week but I can forget about visiting their shop in Skokie again.