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Bread Worthy Bakery

Licensed home bakery in Iowa City, Iowa. Find us every Saturday at the Iowa City Farmer's Market.
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08/24/2026

It's time! 🎉🎉 Starting this weekend (8.30) you can now come visit us on Sundays! And we're opening earlier on Fridays!
Our updated storefront hours:
Friday 7:30 AM - 1 PM
Saturdays & Sundays: 9 AM - 2 PM
Plus at the Iowa City Farmers Market each Saturday 7:30 AM - noon.

Also as a few of you have been asking, we have been uploading our specials each week onto our website under our menu page these last few weeks. They are typically all updated on Thursday night (but I do try to get a few of them uploaded earlier - just check again on Fridays for the full selection). So you can now see our specials each week before you come in as I'm not always able to update each morning here on Instagram.
Can't wait to see you all for our first Sunday!

08/17/2026

A month and half in after opening and it's finally been feeling like things are stabilizing behind the scenes here in the bakery.

It was always our goal to be open more days much earlier than this, but it's been absolutely wild behind the scenes here. My dream of the smaller end bakery has definitely morphed as we quickly realized we needed to more than double our staff (we're up to 20!), and with the time it's taken to do that hiring, get them started, and the vast amount of training (as many come without any baking experience) has taken longer than expected, coupled with my concerns about our refrigeration issues have been totally valid. It's also been so so much busier than I could have imagined. With training around the clock and being here to close and open some days, sleep has been very much non-existent most days for me. Because even though we're not open - we're still here working each and every day - and if you've been in you've definitely seen me on the line in some space! But we have an amazing team in place here that I'm so incredibly proud of and is ready to fly without me and another few finally starting training this week. We'll be gauging how this week goes and I'm hoping to make an announcement about Sundays and early hours on Fridays as early as next week 🎉. (P.S. looking for one more FOH person!)

But also a serious thank you to everyone who's stopped by to support us! This street and community have been so incredibly welcoming and we can't wait to be able to see you more days soon!

08/07/2026

One of our shop specials this weekend - Nutella and almond twice bake croissant. Our pain au chocolat, filled with chocolate almond cream, Nutella, and Frangelico syrup. Available in the shop both today and tomorrow! In addition to this, we will also have everyone's favorite carrot cake, filled with pecan custard and topped with a deep brown butter cream cheese frosting.

07/28/2026

We're officially open Fridays and Saturdays now 🎉 Come visit us either of those days between 9AM-2PM. And since so many of you have asked - yes we are planning to add more days soon and expand our hours on weekdays to be a bit earlier. We're aiming to add in Sundays by mid August and hopefully Thursdays by the end of August after our new AM crew starts and is trained.
Also getting a ton of questions each week so I've made a new tab on our website with answers to frequently asked questions and am planning to use it to continue to post updates as we expand. To summarize the 2 most frequent ones besides when are you open:
1. We started offering some drinks! We're partnering with DAYDRINK for both our drip and espresso. We're offering drip coffee hot or cold, iced lattes, iced Americanos, and starting this week - house made iced tea and chai.
2. Are you hiring? The only spot we are currently looking to fulfill is for a dishwasher who can work Friday-Sunday for around 4 hours in the AM. Please email a resume to apply. As of now I feel we are fully staffed for the moment for FOH and BOH. We just completed hiring the last few AM bakers that we need and 2 more for FOH. We'll see in a few weeks if we need more FOH but we can't possibly fit another person into our kitchen with our limited space.
Also for any questions now and in the future- the best way to reach out to us is either through email or Instagram DM (I am rarely on Facebook and even more rarely check messages on messenger there - the posts there are linked through Instagram). Just please be patient and give me a day or two to respond - if you've been in here you'll know I'm constantly working to grow this business!

07/24/2026

Our ham & cheese croissants (made with thick cut ham from local Thoma's meat market) are still one of the biggest sellers in our new shop! Been a busy kick off to our day so we are down to the last few of these today but plenty of other delicious choices left! Come visit us until 2 PM today or tomorrow (Saturday) between 9AM-2PM or at the farmers market from 7:30AM-noon.
As a heads up, we have a large amount of staff moving next weekend so will not be at the Farmers Market on August 1st but will be fully stocked up here in the shop!

07/10/2026

See you all tomorrow at both our storefront from 9 AM - 2 PM and down at the Iowa City Farmers Market from 7:30 AM-noon! As a special note, for the month of July, our open days and hours will be posted weekly on our website and on Google maps as we grow our team. We're hoping to add a 2nd day to the week soon and then expand again in August to 4 a week when we train up our next set of new hires. Our menu will change a bit week to week as we train and figure out how to expand to offering our product more days of the week. Please note that the farmers market menu will exclude some items as we work out the best way to do the market on top of our shop.

Also, still finding myself at a loss of words about how incredibly supportive you all were of our grand opening last Saturday. Because somehow after almost 20 years of dreaming and 5 years into building this business we finally got to open the doors to our very own shop. 🎉 We have both absolutely poured ourselves into building the bakery this last year. If we weren't sleeping we were either prepping for a bake or working long hours getting the place together and it's been a total joy to see it finally filled and busy. Can't wait to see you all many more times soon!

06/28/2026

You're invited to our official grand opening on Saturday, July 4th from 9 AM - 2 PM. 🎉 Come visit us at our new storefront at 203 N. Linn St. Iowa City, IA 52245

Woke up this morning after a long sleep with a ton of messages about our opening, store hours, etc. We just started training our staff on Tuesday and have been trying to dial in our ovens. Yesterday was our soft opening, a small event that was unannounced until later to help us have a truly soft, small opening to be able to get off the ground, training without insane pressure, and get a flow going. As one person suddenly expanding my skills to a team of 10-15, it's going to take us a little to get up and running! By the time I got home after the soft opening yesterday I had been awake for 31 hours to train 2 sets of teams and make sure it all ran smoothly.

But to answer some common questions as my inbox is blowing up:
1. We will NOT have a drink service these next week. Hoping to narrow down a coffee this week and start testing and then train soon. This also eases the needs on our FOH for what I expect will be a very very busy opening days.
2. We are working on a days/times schedule. We hired our staff back in early April and since then we have had some staff change their times/days of week vs what I had been planning around. P.S. this means we are hiring! We are looking for 2 bakers, weekends are a must! FT or PT, morning or night or overnight. And another farmers market assistant, Saturday mornings a must, that will also have opening to FOH shifts if desired.
3. We will be back at the farmers market! My hope is 7/11 but I'll keep you updated.
4. My goal first and foremost is to be able to bring you all what we've been doing for years into a setting where you can stop by multiple days a week and specials are more than just a day long. And once we have that set, we are looking at starting to expand our menu to offer more savory baked goods and pastries that we've been working on in the background. Bread is something I hope will come, but our lease requires us to be open 4 days a week and I need to make sure we have the ability to grow to 4 days with our current team and equipment first!

06/19/2026

Special note: we will NOT be at the farmers market tomorrow! But it's for a very good reason! It's been chaos for us this week getting ourselves moved into our new storefront and all set up and I'm happy to say that we have officially passed our inspection 🎉 But it has taken us much longer to get moved in over there then either of our expected and we have burnt ourselves to the ground this week getting things set up. We're taking a day off to rest and then it's time to start testing our new equipment.
Announcement is coming very soon about our opening weekend! I need a nap first 🤣

05/22/2026

Another week of rhubarb goodies are coming to the farmer's market tomorrow! Come visit us from 7:30 AM to noon at the Iowa City Farmer's Market.

05/01/2026

Our first market of the season kicks off tomorrow! Join us as we officially kick off our 6th market season at the Iowa City Farmer's Market from 7:30-noon. 🎉 As a note - the first market of the season is always the busiest of the year so we suggest coming early and expecting a line. After a month off from baking for you all, I'm so excited to see you all again finally! And a little shop update - we've been pushing hard and if all stays on track - we hope to open our doors to you in June 🎉

Address

203 N. Linn Street
Iowa City, IA
52245

Opening Hours

Friday	9am - 2pm
Saturday	9am - 2pm

Website

https://www.breadworthy.com/

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