Every bun begins three days before it reaches your hands. Stone-milled heritage grains, wild-culture levain, and patience most bakeries can't afford.
"You cannot hide shortcuts in a good loaf. It either rose, or it didn't. It either caramelized, or it didn't. The bread knows."
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Most bread is made in a day. Ours isn't. We build flavor the way nature intended — slowly, through time and fermentation. The wild yeast that leavens every bun has been alive in this kitchen longer than most of our staff.
We source single-origin heritage wheat from family farms who still use stone mills — because roller-milled flour strips the bran and germ that give bread its depth. The flavor difference is immediate and irreversible.
We bake once a day. We sell out. We prefer it that way.
See Today's Bake
72-layer lamination · AOP butter from Normandy
From $5
Heritage Red Fife wheat · 72-hr cold retard
From $14
Six eggs per loaf · cultured butter enriched
From $4
Ceylon cinnamon · Mascarpone glaze
From $6
We receive whole-berry grain from two family farms in the Palouse. We mill it ourselves — right here, in small batches — two hours before mixing. Freshly milled flour behaves differently. It ferments better. It tastes alive. You cannot bottle that from a warehouse.
Stone mills. No steel rollers.
Our levain starter is seven years old. It has never been refrigerated. We feed it twice daily. From it, all our leavening descends. Dough goes into cold retard for at minimum 48 hours — often 72. The slow cold ferment produces complex acids that store-bought yeast can never replicate.
Wild culture. Commercial yeast never.
Deck ovens. Live steam injection for the first twelve minutes. Steam creates the thin, yielding crust that shatters on first bite and gives way to a soft, open crumb. We bake on natural stone slabs at 490°F. The Maillard reaction does the rest. Nothing else in the kitchen smells like this.
490°F deck ovens. Steam injected.
Every ingredient has a provenance story. We don't buy commodity product. We buy relationships — with farmers, millers, and dairies who share our obsession with the original.
Palouse, Washington
A heritage variety nearly lost to industrial farming. Nutty, complex, with a depth modern wheat has bred out. Milled same-day.
Normandy, France
84% butterfat, slow-churned from cream that's been ripened with live cultures. The difference in our croissant lamination is not subtle.
Our Kitchen, Since 2017
Seven years old. Fed daily, never frozen. A living culture that imprints every bun with the particular character of this place.
Sri Lanka · Ceylon Grade
Not cassia. True Ceylon cinnamon — floral, delicate, low-coumarin. We grind it fresh every morning. The aroma difference is not a subtle thing.
Maldon, Essex
Pyramid-shaped crystals harvested from a single estuary since 1882. Used as a finishing salt on every savory bun. You taste the crunch before you taste the salt.
Vermont · Small Farm
Six eggs per kilo of brioche dough. Deep-orange yolks from hens that actually move. The color and richness they contribute is visible before the first bite.
Pre-orders open Thursday evening. Pickup Friday through Sunday. No exceptions. We made peace with scarcity a long time ago.
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2840 N. Milwaukee Ave
Chicago, IL 60618
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Friday — 7 AM until sold out
Saturday — 7 AM until sold out
Sunday — 8 AM until sold out
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Walk-ins welcome while quantities last.
Restaurant accounts, wedding packages, corporate catering, and
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