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Freshly baked baguettes cooling in rows.

Great bread takes time.

Turtle Bread Company · Minneapolis, since 1994.

Three locations, three neighborhoods.

Everything is baked where it is sold. Call ahead and we will set it aside.

Turtle Bread Company's Chicago Avenue bakery in South Minneapolis, a brick storefront with sidewalk tables beneath the sign.
Turtle Bread Company's Chicago Avenue bakery in South Minneapolis, a brick storefront with sidewalk tables beneath the sign.

Chicago Ave

4762 Chicago Ave, Minneapolis

Open 7am–8pm · Kitchen until 2:30pm

Pizza Biga attached, open 5–8pm.

Turtle Bread's Linden Hills bakery, with patio seating outside its front windows.

Linden Hills

3421 W 44th St, Minneapolis

Open 7am–6pm, 5pm Sundays · Kitchen until 2:30pm

Tosca in the annex, Wed–Sun 5–8:30pm.

Turtle Bread's Longfellow bakery, a red brick storefront with green planters at the door.

Longfellow

4205 E 34th St, Minneapolis

Open 7am–4pm · Kitchen until 2:30pm

We started with one oven on West 44th Street.

Thirty-two years later the method has not changed much: long ferments, unhurried proofs, and the same sourdough culture we started with in 1994. Three rooms now, all of them baking before the city wakes up.