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.”
• Tartine BakeryA San Francisco bakery on Guerrero Street, known publicly for bread and pastry, used here as an atlas node rather than a review.