Boudin Bakery

Boudin Sourdough Bakery & Cafe is located at 595 Market St, San Francisco, CA. This location is in the South Beach neighborhood. This business specializes in Bakeries and has 2 review(s) with a star rating of 4.0.

Andre-Boudin Bakeries is one of the leading producers and distributors of baked items and related food products. It operates more than 30 bakery cafes and wholesale bakeries in Northern California, Southern California and the Greater Chicago area. The company offers a wide range of food products, such as specialty breads, rounds and loaves and assortments. It also provides a variety of other...

In 1849, the Boudin family struck culinary gold. Wild yeasts in the San Francisco air had imparted a unique tang to their traditional French bread, giving rise to “San Francisco sourdough French bread.”

San Francisco is famous in culinary circles for sourdough bread and Boudin Bakery's eponymous founder Isidore Boudin played a major role in inventing it. In 1849, he traveled from France to California and used the city's characteristic sour dough to create French bread, giving rise to what is known as the San Francisco sourdough bread. Boudin Bakery has many branches in California today, but...