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9 bakery places in Portland we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in Portland | Bakery across every city.
Portland bakes with a seriousness that tracks its restaurant scene, and the city's bread culture runs deep. Standard Baking Co on Commercial Street in the Old Port is the touchstone, supplying naturally leavened loaves to kitchens across the peninsula, while Tandem Coffee + Bakery on Congress Street in the West End built its reputation on biscuits and morning buns. Across the bridge in South Portland, Scratch Baking Co keeps a devoted weekend line for its bagels.
Standard Baking Co ★ 4.8
old-port · 75 Commercial Street, Portland, ME 04101
Standard Baking on Commercial Street, since 1995 from Alison Pray and Matt James, is Portland's artisan bakery for levain breads and laminated pastries.
Two Fat Cats Bakery ★ 4.7
east-bayside · 195 Lancaster Street, Portland, ME 04101
Two Fat Cats on Lancaster Street, founded 2005 by the Fore Street team and bought 2012 by Stacy Begin, runs whoopie pies, fruit pies and cakes.
Forage Market ★ 4.2
east-bayside · 123 Washington Avenue, Portland, ME 04101
Forage Market on Washington Avenue, the Portland branch of Allen Smith's 2013 Lewiston bakery, runs hearth-baked Montreal-style bagels in East Bayside.
Scratch Baking Co ★ 4.6
west-end · 416 Preble Street, South Portland, ME 04106
Scratch Baking Co in South Portland's Willard Square, five minutes from downtown, runs sourdough bagels that draw a Sunday morning queue around the corner.
Tandem Coffee + Bakery ★ 4.5
west-end · 742 Congress Street, Portland, ME 04102
Tandem Coffee + Bakery on Congress Street, since 2014 from Will and Kathleen Pratt, runs buttermilk biscuits, scones and laminated pastries with house coffee.
The Holy Donut ★ 4.1
old-port · 177 Commercial Street, Portland, ME 04101
The Holy Donut on Commercial Street is the waterfront branch of Leigh Kellis's Maine potato donut program (Park Avenue original 2012), in rotating flavours.
The Purple House ★ 4.3
woodfords-deering · 378 Walnut Hill Road, North Yarmouth, ME 04097
The Purple House in North Yarmouth, 20 minutes from Portland, runs Krista Desjarlais's Montreal-style wood-fired bagels from a converted Cape Cod house.
Rose Foods ★ 4.0
woodfords-deering · 428 Forest Avenue, Portland, ME 04101
Rose Foods on Forest Avenue, since 2017 from Chad Conley, runs hand-rolled, hand-shaped bagels, rugelach, babka and challah from a small storefront.
Scratch Baking Co ★ 4.8
west-end · 416 Preble Street, South Portland, ME 04106
Scratch Baking Co in Willard Square pulls Portland's deepest Sunday bagel queue, five minutes from downtown but across the bridge in South Portland.
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