After (seemingly) years of people raving about this bakery, I finally made it down to this 17th Ave location to see what all the fuss was about. Fuss deserved!
Rustic Sourdough Bakery is a combination fresh bulk bread store and deli.
It has everything you'd expect from a local bakery, buns, rolls, knots and loaves of all kinds. You can get a fresh-baked classic like crunchy wheat or tangy sourdough or something little more trendy in a chewy chibatta or dense pretzel roll.
The deli offers a selection of meats for purchase and a decent made-to-order to-go sandwhich menu as well as daily soups and salads. Over the noon hour, the line at the deli can move slow but go at 11 or 1 and the rush will have significantly subsided.
On the shelves you will find lesser-known preserves, a wide variety of chocolates, interesting mustards and dressings.
Rustic Sourdough Bakery is part almost-a-grocery part almost-a-deli and that combination seems to work to bring customers an nice variety of breads with just enough sandwhich thrown in. And while your there, might as well pick up a neat chocolate or new mustard flavour.
T.