Authentic.
Authentic Food
Family recipes. Whole ingredients. Brines that take a day. Crusts you can hear. We don't fake the funk — every plate is built the way it was taught to us, in the kitchens we grew up in.
Our Story
Born at the kitchen table.
Now serving the whole city.
— Peggy Johnson
Founder · Owner · Chef
Breekin Bread started where most soul food starts — at a Sunday table in Astoria. Too much food. Too much love. Too many people who needed a real meal.
What began as Sunday plates for the block turned into catered repasts, then graduations, then weddings. Word travelled. The truck was the obvious next move: a kitchen on wheels that could bring the table anywhere it was needed.
Today we're a Black-owned, woman-led food truck and catering group serving Astoria daily and the wider city for events. The recipes haven't changed. The intention hasn't either.
"Bread is broken where soul lives."
Meet the founder
Peggy Johnson — a woman of faith, value, and commitment.
Peggy was raised in Coney Island, Brooklyn, by a mother and father who taught her two things early: love your community, and love what comes out of your kitchen. Both stuck. Both became her life's work.
The road wasn't easy. Peggy faced her share of obstacles — but faith always showed her a way through. She put in the work. For 17 years she served the mentally ill as a caregiver. She showed up for her church. She showed up for her block. Before she was a chef, she was a servant.
Her first venture, The Living Room, was a lively lounge in Brooklyn — a gathering place that mirrored everything she believed about hospitality. When that chapter closed, she didn't slow down. She asked herself the bigger question: where do I want to witness, experience, and be the change in my community — at ground level?
The answer turned into Breekin Bread and her non-profit philosophy of service: serving meals to the elders, providing plates for the homeless, and teaching the youth financial literacy. She's always hands-on. Always willing to help.
Peggy isn't just a business owner or a world-class chef. She's a mother, a wife, a sister, and a voice of calm — proof that with a little, you can multiply your impact in a big way.
17 yrs
Serving the mentally ill
1 lounge
The Living Room, Brooklyn
1 mission
Feed. Teach. Serve.
Three Pillars
Everything we do stands on three things.
Soul.
Genuine Soul
Cooked by people who care, for people we care about. We learn names at the window. We remember orders. We feed the block on hard days because that's what bread-breaking is for.
Unmatched.
Unmatched
Sit-down quality, served out a truck window. White-glove service, set up in a community center basement. Wherever we cook, we hold the standard.
The road so far
From the stove to the street.
2019
Sunday plates
Cooking for the block out of a home kitchen in Astoria.
2021
First repast
Word travels. First paid catering job — a repast for 40.
2023
The truck
Breekin Bread the food truck pulls up to Astoria Blvd.
2025
City-wide
120+ events catered. Serving Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan.
Community
We feed the block, not just the receipt.
A portion of every catered event funds free plates for community elders and shelter meals across Queens. If you'd like to sponsor a tray, reach out — we'll handle the rest.
