Hammerbacher

09/24/2026

We are sold out for today.
Thank you so much for your support.
Baking more for tomorrow...
Guaranteed more for the coming weeks!
Much love.

09/24/2026

09/24/2026

Working on it.
OpenShop today Th
regular hours Th&F 3-6PM

09/24/2026

https://www.instagram.com/p/DdrZB8jvm4L/?stkn=OGxuazY3OXdyMXpk

09/24/2026

edits to today's menu...forgot.
Xl focaccia, red & parm.
apple turnover.

09/24/2026

OpenShop today Th
regular hours Th&F 3-6PM

available for purchase in the shop today and tomorrow, fresh flower bouquets from Walking Bird Farm

09/24/2026

OpenShop today Th
regular hours Th&F 3-6PM

09/20/2026

this is a long one - would love for you to read until the end...

So long and thanks for all the knish.

The universe is moving on, and it seems rude to argue with the schedule. Apparently, ten years is precisely the correct length of time for this particular type of endeavor.

Part of the beauty of this experiment is that it was never entirely planned out. We allowed it to grow organically, in directions that engulfed us, enticed you, and kept going long past the point of reasonable physical fatigue.

In a universe entirely governed by entropy, chaos, and bureaucratic absurdity, committing to excellence and empathy is not a business strategy; it is an act of quiet, highly localized rebellion.

Operating in this capacity taught us something specific about the nature of work. To be a professional is to resolve to perform at the highest possible level. To operate with ambivalence to the baffling whims of modern popularity and to do so as long as your atoms can continue to hold together.

Providing food for humans is a strange and complex mechanism. Most of the world appears to currently operate on the assumption that service is about selling a product loudly. We preferred a different approach through hospitality. Hospitality is greater than the transaction. It is nuanced, deeply empathetic, and at its best, entirely quiet. Hospitality is about knowing where your towel is; professionalism is folding it correctly. Not because anyone is looking but because life is chaotic enough without being unprepared and casually adding to the mess.

Hospitality is also the intuitive understanding that everyone who walks through the door is dealing with the low-grade panic of existence, and that offering them a cookie is the only rational response.

We endeavored to maintain that quiet form of professionalism for 10 years. We did it not for accolades, but because doing the job correctly was the only defense against the absurdity of doing the job at all.

Through our experience in this profession, we additionally believe there is a fundamental obligation to leave a system better than you found it. Be it a cosmic belief in the future of opportunity or just a sincere obligation to the purpose of the dishwasher. Systems prevail because good stewards attend to them. So, we came, we baked, we set reasonable boundaries with butter and yeast, and we tried to keep the timeline tidy.

There is no grand statement, no tragic post-mortem required. Most people don't read the long post anyway, and the ones who were here already know what it was.

Just a quiet, unvarnished note of thanks. Thank you for showing up, for trusting the work, for pretending our timelines made sense and for ultimately confirming that baking bread wasn't an entirely unreasonable way to spend a decade.

WE WILL REMAIN SERVING YOU IN SHOP THROUGH CHRISTMAS. Please come by and say hey, hang out, share with a friend, bring a hostess gift to dinner, treat a date, spoil the grandkids, give us the time to share the goodness and to part ways with gratitude. We think that would be grand.

09/18/2026

Staying open until 7pm

09/18/2026

No more line ‐ plenty available!