Get Your Carb Fix at These Legendary California Bakeries
The best places in the West to pick up a loaf of bread or a sweet treat.
Silas Fallstich
The Sunset Travel Awards celebrate the best in travel in the West. These two are the 2025 winners of the Where to Eat & Drink: Markets and Bakeries category. Check out the complete list of winners here. For our definitive and searchable travel directory to help you plan your next trip in the West, click here.
Bob’s Well Bread Bakery
Silas Fallstich
What started as a passion project for a mid-career Hollywood exec has turned into hands-down the best bakery in the Santa Ynez Valley. Yes, the loaves are transcendent, but the breakfast dishes, desserts, and lunch sandwiches are equally sublime.
Bouchon Bakery
David Escalante
Do you love shatteringly crisp on the outside, tender on the inside, Parisian-worthy croissants, whimsical macarons, artisanal breads, and exactingly brewed coffee in a jewel box of a bakery worthy of your wine country, European-inspired, American-made culinary explorer dreams? Then the Yountville icon Bouchon Bakery is your dream realized.
