Five months after opening a bakery in downtown Niles, Gail Hanchar is moving her business a couple blocks west to the site of the former Red Roof Cafe, at 206 E. Main St.

She will re-open the business today as a full-fledged restaurant called Crumb Crossing Bakery and Bistro.

The restaurant will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner in addition to all the baked goods she offered at her former location, which was in the Four Flags Hotel at 404 E. Main St.

“I am excited and at the same time a little nervous,” Hanchar said. “I am kind of stepping out of my box a little bit. I am very comfortable with baking, but adding the restaurant is a little more adventurous.”

Hanchar said she opened Crumb Crossing Bakery in November knowing she would eventually need to expand into a place that had its own kitchen. She was previously using the kitchen at the Niles Entrepreneurial & Culinary Incubator to do all her baking.

“This was always our starter,” she said.

After receiving an offer to operate out of the Red Roof Cafe space, which has its own kitchen, she decided it was the right time to make the move.

“I always like a challenge and when that presented itself it was like why waste it?” she said. “There is so much opportunity here and I am not going to let something like that pass something me by. That’s not my personality.”

Crumb Crossing Bakery and Bistro will be open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. seven days a week, except on major holidays.

“I would never ask anyone to work an Easter or a Christmas and not be with their family,” Hanchar said. “That’s just not right.”

The restaurant’s breakfast menu and soup and salad bar will be offered all day.

Dinner will rotate based themes, such as Italian night, seafood night, steak night and comfort food night.

Hanchar said details on dinner nights could be found on Facebook at Crumb Crossing Bakery. A website, currently in development, will also provide more details.

Hanchar will have three employees, including a cook and two others.