AUGUST FIRST

We're thrilled to introduce our newest way to get delicious, all-natural bread to our neighbors and friends. Freshly baked 7 Grain bread is now available for delivery to local businesses!  We know how hard it is to find the time to keep fresh bread in your house, and trips to the bakery don't always fit into your busy schedule.  So, we're bringing it to you.  

Our first delivery will start in July, in 12 week cycles. The minimum order is 25 loaves per workplace.  That includes weekly delivery to the greater Burlington area.

For all of the details, for answered questions, and to get started, contact Jodi Whalen at [email protected] or 802-578-7477. 

For a printable information sheet, click HERE

 
Welcome to August First.  We're a locally owned restaurant, bakery, and cafe in downtown Burlington, Vermont.  Our bakery is in a renovated garage, filled with lots of sunlight and warmth.  We start our day with coffee, latte, and espresso, and have a great selection of breakfast sandwiches on our own bread, as well as amazing pastries.  Lunch time means healthy and delicious food -- salads, sandwiches, and soups made from the finest ingredients.  We have great afternoon treats --- brownies, cookies, and other sweets.  And we're open every Friday night for All-You-Can-Eat Flatbread Pizza. 

 

Every morning, our bakers create amazing European-style hearth-baked organic breads.  We only use organic flour, water, starter/yeast, and salt.  No sweetners, all natural!  Choose from Baguette, Country French Sourdough, Seven Grain, Whole Wheat (Whole Grain), Kalamata Olive, Jalapeno Cheddar, and other specialties.

We bake fabulous pastries every morning, too, and focus on traditional, heirloom recipes.  Our bakery specialty is the Hungarian Sweet Roll, which is a classic pastry dough wrapped around a sweet walnut meringue.  We also make them with a delightful Apricot-Almond filling.  

 
Our other pastries and sweets include scones, cinnamon rolls, seasonal tarts, brownies, macaroons, and cookies. 

Lunch starts at 11am, and we offer a great selection of delicious sandwiches, soups, and salads created with a focus on fresh, high-quality ingredients.  See our menu here!

 

BLT on a Baguette

Curried Chicken Salad Sandwich

 

Our Hungarian Rolls have quickly become a customer favorite here at the bakery.  We love how they're their own little beings... not a croissant, not a overly sweet pastry, just a perfect little treat for either the morning or afternoon.  

The dough is made with organic flour, Vermont butter & eggs, and sour cream.  We roll them with a deeelightful filling made with oven-toasted walnuts and a sweet meringue, which, when baked, creates a sweet, soft filling and little magical spots where the meringue bakes out and becomes crunchy.   Our honey-apricot version is filled with a sweet local honey, toasted almond, and apricot filling. 

THE BREAD BIKE

Our August First Bakery Bread Bike has quickly become the hit in the neighborhoods of Burlington, VT. We fill our custom Worksman Cycles bike with organic bread, and cruise around the city, selling it to neighbors and friends.

The Bread Bike is out Monday-Thursday, from 5-7pm.  Look for your neighborhood here!

 

August First Baguettes at the Burlington Wine & Food Festival, June 26, 2010

Baguettes are sensitive loaves.  They're best eaten the day they're baked, and are truly best when they're at they're freshest.  When we arranged our bake schedule, we decided to put our baguettes at the very end of the baker's to-do list, and to have them leave the oven around 10am.  Why so late?  Most people enjoy a baguette with dinner, and if you're getting one from the local grocery store or co-op that brings in bread from commercial bakeries, that bread had to get out of the oven and onto a truck early in the morning (or even in the middle of the night in some cases.)  Every hour counts in the life of a baguette!

August First baguettes are made with organic flour from Meunerie Milanaise, in Quebec's Eastern Townships, water, yeast, and salt.  We've gained quite a cult following with them, and often hear exclamations like, "This is the best baguette I've had since I lived in Paris!"  We bake them 7 days a week, and have them ready on the counter around 10am.  We also offer them as a bread option for all of our lunch sandwiches. 

   

 

It's rhubarb season in Vermont.  Our friend Dave, who has a great garden plot in the Tommy Thompson Gardens in Burlington's Intervale hooked us up with some delicious, homegrown rhubarb from his personal farmette.  Our bakers came up with this lovely little tart, loaded with tender, semi-tart rhubarb, whole toasted almonds, and a sweet sweet crumb topping.  Perfection.  

 
(photo courtesy of our friend Dave)

We like the idea of getting fresh, local rhubarb directly from home gardeners, and found a few more folks like Dave who are happy to barter 'barb with us!  So for the next few weeks, stop by and enjoy a local rhubarb crumb tart.

 

Flatbread Fridays --- Friday August 10th and Friday August 17th. 

Friday August 17th will be our last Flatbread Friday!

 

August 2012 Update: We've had a TON of fun doing Flatbread Fridays, but have made the decision to discontinue them so that we can focus on fulfilling the demand we have been getting for private parties.

Thank you ALL for the great times! 

Every Friday night we open the bakery up, push the tables together, and have a big flatbread dinner. 

 For you, it's a fun and easy experience.  Pay one price ($12 adults, $8 kids under 10), and enjoy all of the pizza and salad you'd like.  Our bakers create delicious flatbread pizza with creative toppings like:

Vermont Smoke & Cure Bacon, Broccoli, & Potato (white pizza)

Roasted Squash, Caramelized Onions, Walnuts, Apple, Blue Cheese & Mozzarella (white pizza)

Chicken, Pesto, & Tomato

Mediterranean w/Olives, Feta, Red & Green Peppers, & Red Onion

Bacon Jalapeno

Caramelized Onion, Mushroom & Potato

Classics:  Cheese, Pepperoni

Dessert: Belgian Chocolate & Almond Frangipane Pizza

We have beer on tap and by the bottle, and wine by the glass.

 

Flatbread Fridays: Every Friday Night at August First Bakery

149 S. Champlain St., Burlington Vermont 6-9pm.  802-540-0060

Walk-in seating, no reservations.

Continuous service from 6-9pm, arrive anytime!

 
 

Our bakers bake the most amazing organic, European-style breads ever.  No kidding.  We often hear that our baguettes are the best people have had since they were in Paris.  All of our breads  are organic, and really, really good. Just ask Felix, one of our first fans!

We've got 7Grain, baguettes and Country French Sourdough baking daily, and other fabulous breads rotating throughout the week.  The best Challah in Burlington every Friday.  And amazing Cranberry Pecan, only on Saturdays.

In order to make your life simpler, we've devised this great little handy bread schedule that you can print, keep in your pocket, wallet, hang on your fridge, or pin to your child's hat.

Printable Bread Schedule

 

So click click click on the little blue link, print her out, and come by and see our happy bakers baking amazing bread every day just for you! 

Friday, April 16th is National Foursquare Day!

We're teaming up with  Deep Dish Creative , Rich Nadworny and Burlington businesses to have fun this Friday with the Smartphone app Foursquare.  Foursquare is a play-along social app that tracks when you've visited places.  Players leave "tips" for each other (not reviews), and compete for badges and fun bragging rights --- the person who visits the place the most becomes the "Mayor."

On Friday, we're hosting Foursquare for Kids and will donate $4 to the King Street Center for every FourSquare check-in at the bakery on that day.  

Donations are calculated by players checking in -- one donation check-in per 4Sq. player visit.

The King St. Center is an amazing community resource that provides preschool & afterschool programs, activities for kids, mentoring, and support for adults and families.  They're our neighbors, our friends, and we're so very happy that we can help to support them.  

Here's a screen shot of August First's Foursquare page:

See you on Friday!

 
 

The sap is flowing hard and fast here in Northern Vermont, and bacon...well, bacon is always in season.  So why not pair the two up?  We're baking up Maple Bacon Scones to celebrate syrup season, and frankly, because we all love bacon and maple syrup!  The syrup comes from Vermont's own Talcott Family Farm in Swanton, VT, and the bacon is smoked by our favorite meatsters, VT Smoke & Cure.

These bakery gems are like, as our Chef Brian said, "a little pancake breakfast all in one bite!"  Salty, sweet, toasty too.  We're making them daily until the trees run dry, which, according to our sources, should be for some time, as this has been quite a good year for VT Maple Syrup.