• Why: Vancouver’s Fairlight Bakery, owned and operated by the Fitzgerald family, doesn’t provide a place to sit down and eat. It focuses solely on selling baked goods, both wholesale and through a retail store, and has done well enough for itself that its customers include schools as far away as Florida.
Since it opened 11 years ago, Fairlight has been committed to buying local ingredients whenever possible. All its items are made from scratch and free of preservatives, artificial ingredients, additives, trans fats and high fructose corn syrup.
The bakery’s specialties are snack bars and cookies. Operations Manager Zach Fitzgerald says among the most popular are the Marionberry Zac O Mega Bar, snickerdoodles, peanut butter cookies and the vanilla frosted cookie. Along with a variety of jumbo cookies and snack bars, it also sells brownies and scones.
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