Artisan bakehouse · Portland, Maine

Bread that moves with the tide.

Naturally leavened sourdough, morning pastries, celebration cakes and seasonal pies, baked on Fennel Street. Pre-order a box and collect it at the counter, or put your kitchen on the wholesale list.

  • Pre-order boxes Built overnight and held at the counter for your window.
  • Wholesale Standing orders, baked to your count and dropped before you open.
  • Cakes & pies Made to order, boxed and ready for collection.
A bakery box resting on a weathered ferry dock at sunrise, city skyline across the water
Pre-order boxes waiting on the slip, harbor behind
The bakehouse day Fennel Street
OvernightLoaves shaped and left to rest.
DawnFirst bake out of the oven.
MorningDoors open, boxes on the shelf.

The bakehouse day

Three windows a day. Pick yours.

Boxes are built overnight and held at the counter. Wholesale orders go out on the early run. Cakes and pies are boxed for whenever you can collect them.

Window Pre-order box pickup Wholesale drop-off Cakes & pies
Morning First bake Built overnight Packed the night before and waiting at the counter when the doors open. First run Leaves the bakehouse before most kitchens have switched the lights on. Boxed to order Cakes and pies collected early, boxed for carrying.
Midday Second window Held under your name For anyone who missed the morning. Your box stays on the shelf. Restock run For cafés and markets that sell through the morning bake. Afternoon table Pies boxed and ready to collect.
Late afternoon Last collection On the way home Order ahead and we will keep your box on the shelf until you come through. Staged for morning Tomorrow's cases packed and labelled, so the morning is only loading. Boxed before close The last cakes and pies of the day, wrapped and waiting.
Boxes Order ahead where you can Wholesale Standing orders, baked to your count Cakes & pies Give us a little notice for custom work

Pre-order boxes

Packed at dawn, held for your window.

Order a box and we build it the night before, then keep it on the counter until you come through the door.

  • 01

    The Morning Box

    A sourdough loaf and a bag of morning pastries, packed for the walk home or the boat.

    Pickup · morning window
  • 02

    The Sourdough Box

    Two loaves of naturally leavened sourdough, baked dark and wrapped for the week's toast.

    Pickup · midday window
  • 03

    The Seasonal Box

    Seasonal pies and a loaf, boxed when the fruit is right and the oven has room.

    Pickup · late afternoon window
Sourdough loaves cooling on a wooden rack in a small bakery
Out of the oven, onto the rack
Morning pastries arranged on a sheet tray just out of the oven
Morning pastries, trayed

Wholesale accounts

Wholesale, baked to your count.

Cafés, markets and kitchens: tell us what you sell and we will bake it in. Sourdough loaves, morning pastries and seasonal pies, dropped before your doors open.

  • Standing orders — baked to your count, every day you open.
  • One run, one driver — the same drop, the same window, every morning.
  • Seasonal pie sheets — whole pies through the year, ordered ahead.
A baker loading stacked bread crates into a delivery van at dawn
Loading the morning run, before first light
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Tell us your count

What you sell, how many, and which mornings you open.

02

We bake it in

Your loaves, pastries and pies go through the same night bake.

03

Dropped before you open

Crates labelled per account, on the same run every morning.

A celebration cake with piped buttercream on a bakery counter
Buttercream, piped by hand

From the counter

Cakes and pies, made to order.

Celebration cakes

Custom cakes for birthdays, weddings and the occasions that need one. Tell us the size and the date and we will take it from there, built around your window rather than the other way round.

  • Order ahead so the bake fits your date.
  • Buttercream finishes, piped by hand.
  • Collected at the counter, boxed for carrying.

Seasonal pies

Whole pies follow the season. Whatever is best that week goes in the crust, and we box it for your collection window.

  • Whole pies by pre-order.
  • The Seasonal Box carries pies through the year.
  • Pie sheets for kitchens that need volume.
Start an order Cakes & pies · boxed for your window

Reserve your window

Order ahead. We will have it on the counter for your window.

Pre-order boxes are packed the night before and held until you collect. Wholesale orders go out on the early run, before your doors open. Tell us which one you need.

  • Pre-order boxes — morning, midday or late afternoon collection.
  • Wholesale accounts — standing orders on the daily run.
  • Cakes & pies — ordered ahead, boxed and ready.

Reserve your window

We reply with a confirmation and a collection window

Fennel Street Bakehouse · Portland, Maine