Acme Bread Company Berkeley

Acme’s goal remains the same today as in 1983 when the company was founded: we strive to make the best bread that we possibly can.

Steven and Suzie Sullivan founded The Acme Bread Company in 1983 to bake bread for restaurants and stores who wanted to offer better bread than was generally available on the wholesale market at the time. Acme supplies bread to dozens of restaurants around the Bay Area including Chez Panisse, where Steven began baking bread in the seventies, as well as to scores of grocery stores and retail locations around the Bay Area. When the bakery started up in 1983 we made only four different kinds of Bread: Pain au Levain, Sweet Baguettes, Upstairs Bread, and Challah. Relying largely on the requests aRelying largely on the requests and suggestions of customers, as well on our own occasional inspiration, we have expanded our product list over the last twenty-some-odd years to include more than 100 different products. Since we began operation all our whole-grain flours have been organic but since the nineties, Acme has been incorporating as many organic and locally sourced ingredients