Empire Bakery

This bakery helps me survive. I am allergic to azoidicarbnamide which is used to bleach flour, only in the United States. They make an assortment of baked goods using only unbleached flour. Delicious!

New owner is a lady who is about operating the bakery at her convenience instead of the convenience of the customers. Only open from 7 AM to 2 PM with Mon/Tue being days she is closed. I came...

Best Sourdough bread on the West Coast. I grew up in San Francisco California in the 50s 60s until I received my draft card and went into the Army. My grandmother owned and operated a restaurant...

It's Wednesday and the bakery is closed. A sign posting It's hours limit hours of operation to Thursday and Friday only. We were looking forward to their sourdough bread!

I don't have pictures of the two loaves that I bought on a whim just before they closed, but I can say that I would travel the 3 hours back to buy more. The cranberry, walnut bread was beautiful...