The Best Bakeries In Washington D.C.

The District definitely has a penchant for local eats and artisan breads. Support small businesses, owned and operated by Washingtonians, while delighting your taste buds with these fantastic bakeries.

1. Bread Furst

Bakery, American, Coffee, Vegetarian

This neighborhood Jewish bakery offers an assortment of breads and pastries, and they all taste like heaven. Signs around the bakery prohibit laptop and cellphone use, instead urging you to have a conversation with someone nearby. The policy works, because the freshly baked English muffins and cinnamon chocolate monkey bread will leave you singing praises to anyone who will listen.

2. Baked & Wired

Bakery, Pastries, Coffee, Central American, Vegetarian

Forget Georgetown Cupcakes – Baked & Wired is the District’s real cupcake gem, if you ask anyone familiar with the area. While the former is an immensely popular tourist destination, their cupcakes are bested by this local shop. Baked & Wired’s cupcakes are less decadent and more delicious – still gourmet cupcakes, but with a homemade feel. The shop is a full bakery, and delicious smells radiate from freshly baked breads, pastries, and cups of steaming coffee.

3. Sticky Fingers

Bakery, Vegan, Pastries

This vegan bakery is a necessary stop for both foodies and the environmentally conscious. The pastries are so good, you won’t know they’re vegan. Offering decadent eats from a sweet potato maple cupcake to vegan biscuits and gravy, Sticky Fingers delights all around. Head to Sticky Fingers to feel great about indulging.

5. Spring Mill Bread

Spring Mill Bread

This is the place for bread connoisseurs. Their freshly baked breads are removed from the oven right behind the counter. There’s always samples to try, helping you to decide between cinnamon raisin, apple streussel, and pesto asiago breads – they all demand to be sampled at least once, in the name of happiness and sheer bliss.

701 8th St SE, Washington, D.C., +1 202 547 9190

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