Bellegarde Bakery

Our retail bakery is NOW open at 8300 Apple Street! Specialty Items Available: In addition to our staple wholesale loaves, stone-milled flour and grits, we also offer the following specialty items, with rotating flavors: Sandwich Loaf, Cookies, Fresh Pasta, Pastries, and Sandwiches With world-class ingredients, freshly milled flour and traditional methods, our bread is a testament to craftsmanship: personal, patient, pure. We are ingredient-driven and craft-dictated.

Established in 2013.
All of our breads are made entirely by hand. We gently mix, shape, and ferment all of our breads overnight. All of our breads are leavened with sourdough, and some also receive a small amount of instant yeast (baguette, ciabatta.) All doughs are then divided, shaped, and baked in our hearth oven before being individually packed and hand-delivered to our customers. There are no machines to do our work in the bakery—we only have wrists and hands and hearts. We treat wheat like other people treat grapes. And oysters. And milk. And coffee. And meat. And music. Quality depends on where it comes from. We choose what we we buy what we mill and what we bake from the people who produce those ingredients. We don’t let anyone decide that for us.

Graison G.
Business Owner
In 2012, Gill opened Bellegarde Bakery where he sells hand-shaped, artisan loaves—a prized miche among them—to stores, farmers markets, and restaurants. Working with wheat breaders and with a new granite mill that arrived in 2015 (one of the largest of its kind in the country), Gill mills grains mostly from neighboring states. And his loaves are affordable, because for Gill it’s about getting good bread into people’s hands—not about profit. For Gill, bread baking is more than chemistry, tradition, innovation, nutrition, and history. It’s a spiritual pursuit.