Alen Ramos and Carolyn Nugent had worked side-by-side in the kitchens of some of the best restaurants in the worldmaswerte, including El Bulli on the Spanish coast and the Fat Duck in the English countryside. But they finally found their calling in the Denver suburbs.

“When the pandemic hit, we were working for someone else, building their empire again. We said, ‘OK, it’s time to do something different,’” Mr. Ramos said.

No one was injured in the escape, which happened about 12:30 p.m. on Sunday. Firefighters for the city of North Attleboro who were working at a rodeo at the Emerald Square Mall said they had seen eight bulls break loose from their pen, the fire chief said in a previous statement.

They moved from Chicago to Parker, Colo., where Mr. Ramos has family, and like so many other bakers in 2020, started a bakery out of their home, opening Poulette Bakeshop the following year.

In a strip mall, between a tutoring center and an IV hydration business, Poulette is an unlikely destination for world-class French pastry. But its customers have enthusiastically folded the couple’s honoré bretagnes and vanilla bean spandauers into the suburban rituals of birthday parties and post-baseball-game treats.

ImageAlen Ramos and Carolyn Nugent, here with their son, Tomás, spent years working in the kitchens of some of the world’s best restaurants. Now, the family lives just up the street from their bakery, and Tomás goes to school nearby.Credit...Daniel Brenner for The New York Times

“A 6-year-old had a canelé for the first time at our bakery,” Mr. Ramos said. “Where else would he go to get a canelé?”

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