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Press picks, until locals rank their own Top 5s. Sourced from the local food press. As seen in Richmond Magazine and Style Weekly. Updated August 2026.
Sub Rosa Bakery · Church Hill
Richmond Magazine's 2025 and 2024 Best Savory Bakery winner. The Church Hill wood-fired sourdough and stone-milled bakery that helped put Richmond on the national bread map.
Shyndigz · The Fan
Richmond Magazine's 2025 and 2024 Best Sweet Bakery winner. The Fan dessert destination known for salted chocolate caramel cake and key lime pie.
Westhampton Pastry Shop · West End
Richmond Magazine's 2025 and 2024 runner-up for Best Sweet Bakery. The Patterson-and-Libbie pastry shop that has been baking Richmond since 1952.
Idle Hands Bread Company · The Fan
A decade-old wholesale bread bakery that supplies restaurants across the city and now runs its own Fan storefront. Style Weekly's June 2026 readers' poll placed it second for bakery, and the storefront relocated and reopened in March 2026 after a wave of local coverage.
Janet’s Cafe & Bakery · Forest Hill
A Forest Hill Avenue cafe and bakery named third for bakery in Style Weekly's June 2026 readers' poll. It gives the Forest Hill corridor a neighborhood counter for pastries and coffee alongside the area's restaurants and bars.