Bread Furst
Bakery · North Cleveland Park
4434 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008
Highlights
Award-winning bakery with artisan bread, pastries, cakes & coffee
Award-winning bakery with artisan bread, pastries, cakes & coffee
"This James Beard Award-winning Van Ness bakery that turned 10 last year serves up fluffy, dimpled foccacia; breakfast items like pain au chocolate; brunch frittatas and bagels with gravlax; and quick French lunch staples like a baguette stuffed with ham, butter, and a tiny zing of Dijon. Call for curbside pickup, and order online for pickup and delivery. The neighborhood bakery also maintains a museum cafe in Dupont’s Phillips Collection." - Tierney Plumb
"Inspired by visits to Bordeaux, owner and baker Mark Furstenberg brought the canelé to his D.C. bakery; Bread Furst now bakes canelé fresh daily and delights both natives and non-natives of France. Pastry chef Cecile Mouthon describes the ideal canelé as having a lacy, crusty outer layer caramelized until almost black and sticking to the teeth, with soft, custardy innards—more like an egg custard tart than a cake—and the canelé itself is a caramelized rum-flavored cake that traces back to the 1700s." - Eater Staff
"James Beard Award-winning baker Mark Furstenberg’s tiny cafe in Van Ness is one of the city’s best places to buy baguettes, chocolate croissants, and English muffins. It opens at 8 a.m. and has built out an impressive retail market during the pandemic, offering access to wholesalers for high-quality coffee and olive oil. A cute Bread Furst offshoot also sits inside Dupont’s Phillips Collection museum." - Tierney Plumb
"The popular James Beard award-winning bakery by Mark Furstenberg is offering Hanukkah delights from December 24-31. You’ll find chocolate babka (the sweet, yeasty bread made infamous on Seinfeld), latkes, sufganiyot with homemade applesauce from local farms, and challah at the Van Ness spot. Note that the bakery is “a little old school” and you’ll have to call ahead to put in an order." - Evan Caplan
"Fuel up on carbs at James Beard award-winning baker Mark Furstenberg’s place. Bread Furst offers fresh artisan breads and pastries to go with a daily selection of toasts, soups, salads, baguette sandwiches, and other savory dishes." - Vinciane Ngomsi
