Baguette bread

We baguette bread to make the best bread that we possibly can! Acme is primarily a wholesale bakery but has two retail shops.

One is Acme’s original location at the corner of Cedar and San Pablo in Berkeley and the other is in San Francisco’s Ferry Building Marketplace on the Embarcadero. 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 a variety 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 and suggestions of customers, as well on our own occasional inspiration, we have expanded our product list over the last thirty-some-odd years to include more than 100 different products.

Acme has also done several things over the years to incorporate environmentally friendly procedures and technology. In 2008 we covered our largest wholesale bakery in Berkeley with photovoltaic panels in order to generate much of our own electricity. 4 5 1 4 1 2 1 . More than six billion baguettes are sold every year in France. But the bread is under threat, with bakeries vanishing in rural areas.