From golden sourdough to delicate French pastries — handcrafted with love using time-honored recipes and the finest ingredients we can find.
Golden Crumb began as a single brick oven in my grandmother’s kitchen — flour-dusted countertops, the radio softly on, and an unwavering belief that good bread takes time. Twenty-five years later we still mix every dough by feel, ferment it overnight, and bake it before the sun finds the windows.
Our pastries lean French; our breads lean rustic; our croissants lean buttery in a way you’ll remember. Everything is small-batch, hand-shaped, and out of the oven within hours of you walking through the door.
Years Baking
Daily Varieties
Handcrafted
The bakes our regulars order on rotation — tested, tweaked, and turned out fresh every morning.
36-hour cold ferment, bread-flour crust, open crumb. Ours since day one.
81 layers of laminated French butter dough. Sold by the dozen most weekends.
Choux pastry, crème pâtissière vanilla, single-origin dark chocolate glaze.
Wild Maine berries, sour cream batter, demerara sugar crust. Best within an hour.
Soft enriched dough, vietnamese cinnamon, brown butter cream cheese frosting.
Classic Parisian recipe, slow-fermented poolish, crackling thin crust.
Wedding cakes, milestone birthdays, corporate spreads, and gift hampers — let us bake the centrepiece. We meet, we sketch, we taste, and we deliver something that feels like it could only be yours.
For most custom cake
Five-star reviews are nice — but the regulars who come back every Saturday are the real measure.
The croissants ruined every other croissant for me. I drive forty minutes on Saturdays just for a paper bag of them.
Saturday regular · 6 years
Margaret made our wedding cake — three tiers, fig and pistachio, the kind that people still send us photos of two years later.
Married Sept 2023 · custom order
I ordered a corporate breakfast spread on a day’s notice. Eli answered the phone, didn’t blink, and showed up with the loveliest tray our office has seen.
Corporate catering · monthly
We’re the warm window on Linden Street with the queue of regulars and the smell of butter. Walk in, take a number, take your time.
Pickup orders, custom cake quotes, corporate spreads — drop us a note and we’ll reply within the day, often within the hour.
Skip the queue — order online for pickup before lunch, or same-day delivery within 5 miles. Saturdays sell out fast.