Bake 425 Taking Over North Shore HomeMade Pizza Locations

If you miss the ease of grabbing a pizza to cook at home from HomeMade Pizza, take heart: Highland Park’s Bake 425 is taking over many of HomeMade Pizza’s shuttered stores across the North Shore, according to an article in Crain’s Chicago Business.

Bake 425 opened its first location in Highland Park in August at 479 Central Ave. The business makes its own mozzarella cheese, sauces and dough in house daily and sources organic and local ingredients.

Founder Bill Borneman, of Lake Forest, said there were bids from all over the country for HomeMade Pizza but declined to tell Crain’s his purchase price.

He plans to open in former HomeMade locations next month in Winnetka, Central Street Evanston, and Lake Forest; in November in Glencoe and Chicago Avenue Evanston; and in December on Southport Avenue in Chicago, Crain’s reports. He is looking at other locations in Glenview, Barrington and out of state.

You can read the full Crain’s article here.

Photo: Highland Park’s Bake 425. Courtesy of the company.