Baking in Dallas since 2004.
We started as a wholesale bakery supplying Dallas restaurants with real French bread. The cafés came later, one neighborhood at a time.
Village Baking Co. began in 2004 with a small crew, a deck oven and the idea that Dallas deserved bread the way it is made in France: long fermentation, real butter, no shortcuts. For years that bread went out the back door to restaurants and grocers. In 2015 we opened the first café on Lower Greenville so the neighborhood could have it too. Knox followed in 2021, Oak Lawn in 2022, Bishop Arts in 2023 and Preston Center in 2025, with Preston & Forest on the way.
Everything still comes from one bakehouse. About 13,000 croissants a week, sourdough that proofs overnight, quiche and tarts and canelés, driven to the cafés before dawn. The team that bakes it has been with us for years.
Bakeries open in Dallas every year now, and we love that. Most of them were not here for the first ten years of ours. What we can say is simple: the people who have been baking this bread for a decade are still baking it, the ovens are still lit at midnight, and the city keeps coming back.
Joie de vivre. French for eat more bread.
New bakeries open every year. We just keep baking.
Dallas has been asking who bakes the best bread since before most of the city's bakeries existed. Year in, year out, the answer has been the same: the same bakehouse, the same hands, the same three-day croissant. We are grateful every time.
Press and awards- 2013Best BakeryDallas Observer
- 2015Best BakeryDallas Observer
- 2017Best Bakery, Readers' ChoiceDallas Observer
- 2022Best Kouign-AmannDallas Observer
- 2026Dessert Program of the Year, nomineeCultureMap Tastemakers
- 2026Best Bakery, finalistLakewood Advocate
Craft
Three days to a croissant. Two to a sourdough. Every step by hand, every morning, at our Dallas bakehouse.
Passion
Flour, water, salt and yeast are the simplest things in the world. What you do with them is the whole point.
Soul
A boulangerie is a neighborhood thing. Six of them now, each with its own porch, corner or sidewalk.
