Since 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.
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
Baker Street Bread CoFounded 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.PHILADELPHIA, PA
Marchiano's BakeryA female-owned, family-run Philadelphia bakery, Marchiano’s began in 1982 when Frank and Kathy Marchiano turned Nunziata’s basement recipes into a Manayunk institution. Now carried on by their daughters, the business still follows its old-fashioned methods and a specialty-bread recipe passed down through four generations. Its USDA-inspected wholesale operation extends that family tradition to retailers beyond its own shops.PHILADELPHIA, PA
Mancini's BakerySince Italian immigrant James Mancini began baking in 1926, Mancini’s Bakery has made Pittsburgh bread, including its trademark hand-twisted Signature Twist. Still family-owned and operated, the McKees Rocks bakery uses many of the same old-world techniques while baking around the clock and producing more than 10,000 loaves a day with a team of 48 Pittsburghers. The bakery also runs a retail shop in the Strip District and supplies local retailers and restaurants.MC KEES ROCKS, PA