After 17 years of freshly baked breads, pastries and sweets, Upper Crust Bakery announced this week it will close its Colesville retail store. Crest Hill Bakery, the store's parent company, wants to focus on baking bread for wholesale customers, said Diane Hayes, the manager at Upper Crust.
The store's last day open will be Jan. 10, 2013, Hayes said.
Currently, Crest Hill distributes breads locally to Whole Foods, Giant, Harris Teeter and Roots Market, a speciality store in Olney and Clarksville. Some breads also are available at farmers' markets and seasonal markets around Washington, DC and Montgomery County. (See a full list below.)
The cupcakes, cookies and other non-bread items that some customers have come to love will be harder to find once the store closes. Hayes said the rugelach and perhaps some cookies, tea cakes and pound cakes would be available at some of the farmers' markets in the future. Currently, only the Adams Morgan market offers sweets from Upper Crust.
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