Meg Roussos / The BulletinHyden Talbot, 40, of Severson Plumbing, assembles a faucet during the renovation for a new Sparrow Bakery location in Bend on Wednesday. The bakery acquired a liquor license for their new facility, which will allow them to sell beer, wine and cider there.

Soon, your Ocean Roll may come with a beer.

Sparrow Bakery has obtained a license from the Oregon Liquor Control Commission to sell beer, wine and cider at its new location in NorthWest Crossing.

The bakery, a fixture at its original location on Southwest Scott Street, is finishing up renovations at the former site of Sara Bella Upcycled at 2748 NW Crossing Drive, Suite 100. A small business that turns recycled plastic bags into clothing, gadgets and art, Sara Bella moved this year to a new location on Northwest First Street.

Sparrow Bakery opens in NorthWest Crossing in November, co-owner Whitney Keatman said Wednesday. She and co-owner Jessica Keatman plan on employing 20 people there.

“It’s a beer and wine license, and cider,” Whitney Keatman said. “We’re not going to be doing martinis or anything like that.”

She said that “years and years” of customers asking about a glass of chardonnay with their lunches gave rise to the decision. The bakery’s Scott Street location, in an area zoned for light industrial use, prohibits businesses dispensing alcohol. Not so in NorthWest Crossing, where the new location is along a street already populated with shops and restaurants.

Keatman said the bakery will serve its alcoholic beverages from bottles only. The demand for beer, wine and cider at breakfast and lunch is not so great that keeping a couple of refrigerated kegs on-site makes sense, she said. The owners may opt later for dinner service.

“We definitely talked about adding dinner, and if we add that in the future, that’s the point where we would replace a table with a refrigerator that could hold a couple kegs,” Keatman said.

She said the new bistro and bakery will serve its stronger beverages in bottles only, and only from local sources. “I think our business model is much more in line with craft beers, and there’s plenty of local folks to choose from.”

SunWest Builders, of Redmond, is putting the finishing touches on the nearly 2,000-square-foot space Sparrow is leasing. Keatman said the place should be open before Thanksgiving. Although originally built as a restaurant space, the site was not used that way and the builder added a kitchen, she said.

Keatman in June told The Bulletin that the bakery’s retail sales have grown by about 50 percent over the past four years, which pressed the bakery owners to expand.

— Reporter: 541-617-7815, jditzler@bendbulletin.com