Slightly more than a year after being listed for sale for $1.3 million, Mirabelles Bakery in South Burlington has new owners. Cofounder Alison Lane confirmed that she and Andrew Silva have sold their 34-year-old bakery to Jake and Alexandria Kent of Fairfax for an undisclosed price.

Lane, 60, and Silva, 62, met as students at the now-closed New England Culinary Institute before launching their bakery and café in Burlington in 1990. In early 2020, they moved Mirabelles to 3060 Williston Road, where they continued to bake and cook for takeout and wholesale orders.

When Seven Days reported that the beloved bakery was on the market in July 2023, Lane said she and Silva were "ready not to think about it so much." After helping with the transition, Lane said, she is looking forward to enjoying "so many things I put aside."
Jake Kent, 38, said he and his wife are longtime Mirabelles customers who "started going there as kids." His favorite menu item is key lime pie, and Alexandria's is the chocolate layer cake. "The goal is really not to change much at all," Jake said.



After working in financial planning for about 17 years, Jake was ready for something new, he said. His wife has an MBA from Norwich University. Her mother, longtime Norwich employee Allison Crowson, will run the bakery's front end.