Portland, ME
For Bakeries in Portland, the local food press points to ZUbakery, Tandem Coffee and Bakery, and Standard Baking Co. Picks from New England Today (Yankee) and Portland Press Herald, updated June 2026.
Editor’s picks
Press picks, until locals rank their own Top 5s. Sourced from the local food press. As seen in New England Today (Yankee) and Portland Press Herald. Updated June 2026.
ZUbakery · West End
Barak Olins's naturally leavened, wood-fired bread. The 2024 James Beard Outstanding Bakery. Yankee's Portland guide calls the airy chocolate croissant the sleeper hit alongside the locally milled sourdoughs.
Tandem Coffee and Bakery · West End
Yankee's West End anchor in a late-'60s former gas station. The cragged, salt-flaked buttermilk biscuit (fruit-jam or cheddar-jalapeño) is the Portland pastry other cities try to clone, with olive-oil brioche sticky buns on the side.
Standard Baking Co · Old Port
Dana Street's 1995 Old Port bakery in the same building as Fore Street. The morning buns and Swedish cardamom buns are Portland standards. The Press Herald connects the Fore Street family empire directly to this bread program.
Norimoto Bakery · Deering Center
Atsuko Fujimoto. The 2024 James Beard Outstanding Pastry Chef/Baker. Yankee calls out the yuzu meringue tarts, miso honey butter cinnamon rolls, and shokupan milk loaves at this take-out-only Deering Center shop.
Bread & Friends · Old Port
Wood-fired oven and in-house grain mill for country loaves, transforming to a dinner room at night. Yankee flags it as a rising Portland bakery; executive chef Jeremy Broucek was a 2026 James Beard semifinalist. And the Press Herald puts it on the Best 75 spine.
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