artisan bakery
Handmade bread shop
An artisan bakery produces bread and baked goods using traditional methods—hand-shaping, long fermentation, quality ingredients—rather than industrial processes.
The term signals craft and care, distinguishing such establishments from commercial bakeries: We get our sourdough from a little artisan bakery downtown.
The label has become a marketing term, sometimes applied loosely.
- sourdoughWild-yeast bread starter
- croissantLayered crescent-shaped pastry
- butter croissantLayered pastry with dairy fat
- pain au chocolatChocolate-stuffed laminated pastry
- baguetteElongated crusty loaf
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