Atlas

Bakeries

Craft practiced in a real place, by real people, with local flour and heat.

• Acme Bread CompanyA Berkeley bakery founded in 1983 to supply restaurants with long-fermented hearth bread, later also baking at the San Francisco Ferry Building.
• Arizmendi Bakery (9th Avenue)A worker-owned cooperative bakery in San Francisco’s Inner Sunset, part of a Bay Area network that began from Cheese Board recipes and know-how.
• Boudin BakeryA San Francisco bakery dating its sour French bread to 1849, still operating in the city, and the usual public face of “San Francisco sourdough.”
• Della FattoriaA Petaluma bakery and cafe that publishes a Petaluma Boulevard address and presents bread, pastry, and a kitchen as the public work.
• Josey Baker BreadA San Francisco bakery that makes whole-grain sourdough from fresh-milled local organic grain; after a 2026 fire it relocated baking off Divisadero.
• La FarineAn East Bay retail bakery with rooms the bakeries themselves list in Oakland’s Rockridge and Dimond neighborhoods and on Berkeley’s Solano Avenue.
• La Victoria SFA Mexican panaderia on San Francisco's 24th Street that carries people, recipes, and neighborhood memory forward from the earlier La Victoria Bakery.
• Semifreddi'sAn East Bay bakery, opened in Kensington in 1984, that supplies bread and pastry across the Bay Area from a production plant and a Colusa Avenue cafe.
• Tartine BakeryA San Francisco bakery on Guerrero Street, known publicly for bread and pastry, with a long-running connection to San Francisco’s bread culture.
• The MillA Divisadero cafe and bakery in San Francisco that Josey Baker Bread ran with Four Barrel Coffee, closed after a fire on June 28, 2026.
• The Model BakeryA St. Helena bakery on a site used as a bakery since 1908, with a second production shop at Napa’s Oxbow Public Market since 2008.