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Hartford Baking Co

One baker.
Four baristas.
A beginning.

Hartford Baking Co began in 2010. The early mornings became a Connecticut bakery and coffee-bar story.

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Large mixers in the Hartford Baking Co bakery
2010

Start with the bread.

One baker, four baristas and a mission: that is how Hartford Baking Co describes its beginning.

Most of the bread takes more than 24 hours. Homemade starter, unbleached flour, no preservatives, and hands shaping every loaf.

A baker working at the pastry benchEnlarge photograph ↗

Four places to make it your usual.

Today’s shop directory brings together West Hartford Center, Glastonbury, Farmington and South Windsor.

In its published story, the bakery describes a team of more than 50 and wholesale deliveries to restaurants and grocery stores across Connecticut.

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In the news.

A selection from Hartford Baking Co’s press archive.

The New York Times“Bread With a Fan Base”Press archive ↗Connecticut Magazine“Top Bakeries in the State”Press archive ↗Hartford CourantStories through the yearsPress archive ↗FOX61 · WFSBTelevision featuresPress archive ↗SCORE Greater HartfordA small-business storyPress archive ↗

Inside the bakery

See the hands behind the loaf.

Mixing, shaping, pastry and the oven, in Hartford Baking Co’s own film.

A baker at the oven door
The bakery at work. Play the film when you’re ready.