A Guide to Great Grains and Breads in Concord
For a small city Concord has a pretty impressive offering of pastry and bread with some skilled bakers, and quite delicious bakeries all around the central core. These are just a few of the places offering fresh local breads and pastries:
The Post Restaurant & Bakery on Fisherville Rd. From their bakery, they have a variety of bread available for purchase. Don’t forget to order your pies, cakes, and pastries for your next gathering.
The Crust and Crumb is on Main Street, across from the Statehouse, and they make everything from scratch and by hand. Starting out at local farmers markets, The Crust and Crumb built relationships with local producers and growers to craft amazing food from locally sourced ingredients. They are the first and only Certified Local bakery in New Hampshire with The Farm to Restaurant Connection. Their baked goods are amazing, and take inspiration from many places, including France.
In a Pinch Cafe & Bakery, on Pleasant Street a few blocks from downtown, offers fresh crusty breads and gourmet sandwiches…made to order with high quality meats and cheeses and a variety of homemade soups, stews, bisques and chowders served with a fresh bread roll. And try one of the fresh and delicious green salads, pasta salads, bean salads and Asian sesame noodles made daily.
Sweet Crunch Bakery and Catering offers fresh custom baking, including gift baskets of cookies, and more.
Bread & Chocolate Bakeshop offers European inspired baked goods & pastry such as tarts & cakes. There is a wide variety of pastry, fruit tarts, and cupcakes. People come for the bread and chocolate and stay for the eclairs. And the sandwiches are good too!
At Aissa Sweets they make high quality foods that reflect and build upon the great culinary traditions of the Middle East. Central to their mission, is the belief that foods should be made using only fresh, natural ingredients. Look for their pastries at the Concord Food Coop.
The Works Café got its start in Vermont back in 1988 making bagels. Today, the Works has great local breads as well as their traditional bagels and all kind of healthy foods. Set right on Main Street, they still offer NY style bagels — made with unbleached and unbromated flour and boiled + baked in small batches all day.
Kaye Place in Peacock has custom tortes, macarons, croissant pastries, and so much more. Everything is made in-house, from scratch, using the finest ingredients we can find. All Kaye Place croissants have always been made with grass-fed, high-fat European-style butter.
Fancy a cannoli? they check out the Cannoli Stop on Loudon Road. Here they have all kinds of fresh, hand made cannoli - made to order.