Founded in 1992, Baker Street Bread Co. makes hand-shaped artisan breads and pastries in Philadelphia, supplying restaurants, food-service establishments, and grocery stores while operating a bakery café in Chestnut Hill. The company describes itself as Philadelphia’s first artisan bread bakery and wholesale distributor, using long fermentation and imported French ovens to develop its loaves’ flavor and character. Its wholesale deliveries serve the greater Philadelphia area six days a week, with the café offering breakfast and lunch alongside freshly baked goods.
Wild Flour BakerySince 2003, Wild Flour Bakery has baked artisan breads and pastries in Philadelphia, growing from Nishon and Laura’s one-person operation in a shared South Philadelphia space into a small wholesale bakery in Upper Holmesburg. Its hand-rolled, hearth-baked baguettes and carefully laminated chocolate croissants reflect Nishon’s pastry-kitchen training and the bakery’s focus on breads made to order. Wild Flour also brings its baking to more than six local farmers’ markets each week during the season.PHILADELPHIA, PA
LeBus BakeryBorn in a West Philadelphia restaurant kitchen in 1986, LeBus Bakery makes handmade artisan breads, rolls and pastries for restaurants, grocers and food-service customers. Founders Esther McManus and David Braverman developed their French baguette after Esther returned from learning the craft in Nice, then broadened their baking through study with bakers in Europe and across the United States. Today, LeBus produces both fresh and frozen goods, including the brioche buns that have been staples of fine sandwich shops and restaurants for decades.KING OF PRUSSIA, PA
Merzbacher'sSince 2013, Pete Merzbacher’s Germantown bakery has grown from overnight work in a borrowed West Philadelphia pizzeria into a team-oriented wholesale bread bakery serving Philadelphia’s food businesses. The bakery is known for making artisan bread with 100% locally milled flour, including its signature Philly Muffin, and is now carrying Metropolitan Bakery’s wholesale operations into a new chapter.PHILADELPHIA, PA
Bakehouse Bread & Cookie CompanySince 1997, family-owned Bakehouse Bread & Cookie Company has been hand-shaping artisan breads and baking pastries and cookies daily in downtown Troy, Ohio. Founded by Margaret Begg after training at the Culinary Institute of America and apprenticing under a French master baker, the bakery now operates under her son Bryan Begg, continuing its whole-food approach with naturally leavened breads that take up to 72 hours from start to finish. Its bakery café also serves fresh breakfast, lunch, and catering for the local community.TROY, OH