Golden Crumb Bakery

Naturally leavened, since 2017

Bread with a crackle, mornings with butter.

We're a small sourdough bakery and café on Mapleshade Street in Burlington, Vermont. Every loaf is mixed by hand, fermented overnight, and baked dark, and when the day's bread is gone, we close the doors and start tomorrow's dough.

See today's menu or call (802) 555-0119

Open Wed–Sun, 7am–2pm · 211 Mapleshade St, Burlington, VT 05401 · Sold out = closed early

Freshly baked rustic sourdough loaves cooling in a basket, crusts dark and split
A baker shaping dough on a floured bench Golden loaves in the stone deck oven

The weekly bread schedule

Country sourdough and seeded rye are baked every day we're open. Each day also gets one special loaf, in the same $9–$12 range, always in small numbers, always gone by noon on weekends. The country sourdough and seeded rye are vegan (flour, water, salt); we are a wheat bakery through and through, so nothing here can be promised gluten-free.

  1. Wednesday Polenta & Rosemary Coarse Vermont cornmeal folded into white sourdough, brushed with olive oil.
  2. Thursday Whole Wheat Walnut 50% stoneground whole wheat with toasted walnuts. Cheese-board bread.
  3. Friday Olive & Herb Fougasse Leaf-shaped, tear-and-share, with Castelvetrano olives and thyme.
  4. Saturday Maple Oat Porridge Oats cooked in Vermont maple syrup, folded into a soft, custardy crumb.
  5. Sunday Cinnamon Raisin Swirl A pan loaf for Sunday toast. The whole block smells like it by 8am.

Want a loaf held? Call (802) 555-0119 by 2pm the day before and we'll set one aside until noon.

Custom cakes

For birthdays, weddings-without-the-fuss, and Tuesdays that deserve better. Our cakes are simple and honest: real butter, Vermont cream, fruit that's in season.

  • From $65 for a 6-inch layer cake (serves 8–10).
  • One week's notice required for all custom orders.
  • Order by phone at (802) 555-0119 or at the counter.
  • Standard flavors: vanilla–raspberry, chocolate–espresso, lemon–blueberry, maple–brown butter.

Wholesale bread

We bake overnight for 8 cafés around Burlington, delivered before their doors open at 7am. If you'd like Golden Crumb bread on your menu, we add one or two accounts a season.

  • Country sourdough, seeded rye, and sandwich pullman available wholesale.
  • Minimum 12 loaves per delivery, Wed–Sun.
  • Ask for Maya: (802) 555-0119.

A bakery the size of its oven

Golden Crumb started in 2017 as a farmers'-market stand with one deck oven and a starter named Clementine. Maya Brandt, our head baker, still feeds Clementine twice a day, and every loaf we sell descends from that same culture.

We mill a portion of our whole grains in-house and buy the rest from Vermont and Quebec growers we can name. Ask us and we will, at length. The café side pours Brio Coffeeworks espresso and keeps six seats by the window for people who believe breakfast is best taken slowly.

We bake what we can bake well, in quantities we can sell that day. When the shelves are empty, we flip the sign. Good bread doesn't keep, so we don't pretend it does.

Open until the bread runs out

Find us

Golden Crumb Bakery
211 Mapleshade St
Burlington, VT 05401
(802) 555-0119

Hours

MondayClosed
TuesdayClosed
Wednesday7am – 2pm
Thursday7am – 2pm
Friday7am – 2pm
Saturday7am – 2pm*
Sunday7am – 2pm*

*We close early when the bread sells out; on busy weekends that can be 11:30am. Call ahead if you're making a trip.

Getting here & parking

We're on the ground floor of the brick building at College and South Winooski, two blocks up from the Church Street Marketplace. Metered street spots line Mapleshade Street, and the Lakeview Garage at 41 Cherry St (first 30 minutes free) is a three-minute walk. Bike racks sit right outside our door.

Ordering & pickup

Everything in the case is first-come, first-served, with no online ordering and no shipping, on purpose. Call by 2pm the day before and we'll hold any loaf on the next day's schedule under your name until noon. Loaf holds and custom cake orders are taken by phone at (802) 555-0119 during open hours. We take cards, cash, and tap-to-pay. Parking is metered on Mapleshade Street, or the Lakeview Garage at 41 Cherry St (first 30 minutes free) is a three-minute walk.

Contact

Phone is fastest: (802) 555-0119, Wed–Sun, 7am–2pm. For wholesale and cakes, ask for Maya.

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