A Pastry-Lover's Guide to Denver’s Best Bakeries

The 2024 Denver Bake Fest — Denver’s creamiest, carb-heavy food festival of the year — is returning Oct. 5 outside Rebel Bread on South Broadway. Thanks to the glorious bread-baking days of the pandemic, the Mile High City is in the midst of a bakery BOOM. We recently had local cookbook author Allyson Reedy on the City Cast Denver podcast to help us hone in on Denver’s most delicious baked goods. Miss the episode? Here’s a recap of just some of our favorites!

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🍰 Premier Pastry

GetRight’s in Wheat Ridge

This pandemic-era project from two culinary veterans has become a cult favorite for everything from croissants and cinnamon buns to canelés and cakes. Pro-tip: Don’t sleep on the menu’s recently added personal pan pizzas.

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Báhn & Butter in Aurora

From the same family responsible for creating a local Vietnamese culinary legacy, this French-inspired, Asian-influenced bakery has amassed a following for its brightly colored crepe cakes, croissants, and cupcakes, plus specialty coffees, teas, and sandwiches.

🥖 Best Breads

Rebel Bread on South Broadway

This local fave touts itself as a “small-batch, artisan bakery that’s really big on character,” offering quality loaves with “inventive twists.” Rebel Bread also sells wholesale and offers subscription bread services and community bread-baking classes.

🏆 Best of the Best

Bakery Four in Berkeley

Denver pastry-lovers have been lining up out the door and around the block for Shawn Bergin’s baked goods since he was baking out of his basement in 2019. Still today, even with his brick-and-mortar on Tennyson, you’d better be prepared for a lengthy wait before you get your hands on a cinnamon bun or Rich Spirit bagel from the “King Midas of bread baking,” as Reedy puts it.

Psst! Want more from Allyson? Check out her brand new cookbook “30 Breads to Bake Before You Die,” and keep an eye out for her next big thing to hit shelves, “The Phone Eats First.”