Poppy & Rye
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Neighborhood bakery off Alberta Street, Portland

Real bread, worth the walk.

Poppy & Rye is the little bakery off Alberta. Sourdough, proper butter croissants and cakes for birthdays that matter — everything baked downstairs each morning, most of it gone by three.

Call to order See the counter
4.9 from 312 neighbors First bake at 6am Usually sold out by 3pm
Freshly baked sourdough loaves stacked on the counter at Poppy & Rye
The counter

What a good morning looks like.

No webshop, on purpose. Call before 11am and we set anything aside with your name on it — or take your chances at the counter.

  • A round sourdough loaf with a deep-brown scored crust

    Sourdough boule

    $6

    Naturally leavened, 36-hour ferment. A crust you can hear.

  • Golden flaky croissants fresh out of the oven

    Butter croissants

    $4

    Laminated with cultured butter, rolled before sunrise.

  • A sweet cinnamon-pecan loaf with chocolate, sliced on a cooling rack

    Loaf of the week

    $7

    This week: cinnamon-pecan with chocolate. Sliced while you wait.

  • A rustic whole apple pie with a golden lattice crust

    Apple pie

    $26

    Whole pies with Honeycrisp apples and almond crumble. Order a day ahead.

  • Sliced dark rye bread covered in seeds

    Seeded rye

    $7

    Dense, dark, keeps for a week. The Saturday loaf.

  • A layered celebration cake with cream and fresh fruit

    Celebration cakes

    from $42

    Layer cakes to order — tell us the occasion, we do the rest.

A baker shaping dough by hand on a floured wooden bench

Flour, water, salt — and Gus.

Gus is our sourdough starter. He is fourteen years old, older than the bakery itself, and he came to Alberta Street in a mason jar when we opened in 2019. Every loaf in the shop starts with him, the evening before.

We keep it small on purpose: two bakers, one oven, flour from a mill up the Willamette. When the racks are empty we close — baking more than the neighborhood eats helps nobody.

2019 First bake on Alberta
14 yrs Gus's age, our starter
2 Bakers, one oven

Find us before three.

Poppy & Rye

Tue – Fri7:30am – 4pm
Saturday8am – 3pm
Sun & Monoven off
Sold out means sold out — Saturdays go fast.
Fresh racks daily from 7:30am

The little shop off Alberta

Address

1200 Example St NE, Portland, OR 97211

Order by phone (555) 012-3456
Getting here

5 minutes from the Alberta Arts stop, bike racks out front

Order ahead instead

Tell us what to set aside.

A loaf for the weekend, thirty croissants for the office, a cake with a name on it — leave your number and what you are after, and we call back to confirm before we plan the next bake.