Baskets and trays of sourdough loaves, baguettes and croissants on the bakery counter.

Portland, Maine

Sourdough and pastry, baked every morning in Portland

Naturally leavened loaves, baguettes, croissants, cinnamon buns and seasonal fruit galettes come out of the wood-fired oven Wednesday to Sunday.

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Open Wednesday to Sunday, 7am to 2pm, or until sold out · (207) 555-0121

From the counter

What the shelves look like at seven

The same rotation comes out of the oven six days a week. These four are usually the first to go.

A round sourdough loaf with a dark crust resting on a linen cloth.

Country sourdough

Naturally leavened, one loaf at a time.

Baguettes

Thin crust, best eaten the day you buy it.

Butter croissants

Laminated by hand, out of the oven at dawn.

Cinnamon buns

Still warm if you are in before eight.

A baker shaping sourdough dough on a floured wooden bench.

A sliced loaf on a wooden board, showing the open crumb.

Our bakery

Flour, water, salt and a slow night

Dough is mixed in the afternoon and left to rise overnight. In the morning it is shaped by hand, loaded into the wood-fired oven on a peel, and pulled out when the crust sounds hollow. That is the whole method.

There are five of us in the bakehouse and we bake what we can sell in a day. It is why the shelves thin out by noon, and why nothing here sits over until tomorrow.

The oven is lit before sunrise

It is up to temperature by five, so the first loaves leave it at half past six.

A stoneware bowl of sourdough starter beside a jar of flour.

Risen with a starter

No commercial yeast. The lift comes from a starter we feed twice a day.

A crate of seasonal fruit beside a bowl of flour and a sack of grain.

Grain and fruit from close by

Wheat from New England mills, and fruit for the galettes from farms along the coast.

In season

Fruit galettes, while the fruit is good

Peaches in August, apples and pears from October. Each one is folded by hand around whatever came in that week, and we make a small batch, so they are usually gone by noon.

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