Fire Island Rustic Bakeshop

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"Fire Island Rustic Bakeshop for artisan bread and pastries." - Bailey Berg

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"A much loved local bakery with three locations – one in South Anchorage, one downtown, and one in the East Anchorage neighborhood of Airport Heights – Fire Island offers fresh daily artisan breads, pastries, sandwiches and soup. The newest location is located in a new K Street Market building in downtown Anchorage, with That Feeling Co, a plant shop with great coffee, Johnny’s Produce, a small produce shop with juices and smoothies, and La Bodega, a boutique liquor store. Every Fire Island location has indoor and outdoor seating." - Julia O'Malley

"Fire Island, in the heart of South Addition, one of Anchorage’s oldest neighborhoods, handcrafts an astonishingly delicious array of baked goods, breads, sandwiches, and savory delights that keep locals lining up for more. The bakery uses as much local produce as it can squeeze into its scones and muffins, offers interesting flavor combos, and serves up a tofu banh mi that is one of the finest tofu sandwiches known to man. If you’re hanging out in Anchorage for more than a day or two, check out the class schedule. You could leave Alaska with some serious sourdough skills. Please note: Fire Island is closed Mondays and Tuesdays, as well as most of January."

"Fire Island, in the heart of South Addition, one of Anchorage’s oldest neighborhoods, handcrafts an astonishingly delicious array of baked goods, breads, sandwiches, and savory delights that keep locals lining up for more. The bakery uses as much local produce as it can squeeze into its scones and muffins, offers interesting flavor combos, and serves up a tofu banh mi that is one of the finest tofu sandwiches known to man. If you’re hanging out in Anchorage for more than a day or two, check out the class schedule. You could leave Alaska with some serious sourdough skills. Please note: Fire Island is closed Mondays and Tuesdays, as well as most of January."

Fire Island Rustic Bakeshop Gets Me Through the Long Alaskan Winter | Bon Appétit

"A fiercely local, family-founded bakery in a modest residential storefront chosen deliberately to help revive the neighborhood, this spot is an altar to bread and a daily gathering place for the community. Lifelong Alaskan founders hired family as their first bakers and the current baker, Carlyle Watt, was a James Beard Foundation “outstanding baker” semifinalist in 2017, reflecting the shop’s serious craft: staples like Alaska whole wheat and a signature sourdough sit alongside weekday specials such as challah, plum-flax, and sprouted-grain loaves, and a proud Vollkornbrot built for smoked salmon and dill. The pastry case is unexpectedly refined—polenta cakes topped with blackberries and flecks of Earl Grey, lemon tarts laced with dark chocolate, chunky chocolate chip cookies, massive flaky scones (including a raspberry scone the size of a rugby ball and flavors like blackberry-rhubarb and ham-cheddar-chive), and a much-lauded cupcake selection. Beyond the food, the bakery functions as a neighborly hub—staff who will drop everything to help a local event, regulars who stop in after snow-clearing, soccer teams postgame, and a seasonal rhythm (a notable staff hiatus in January) that underlines its role as a place built by and for locals even as tourists now discover it." - ByGenevieve Roth