Thorough Bread & Pastry

Thorough Bread & Pastry was founded in an attempt to bring authentic French style pastries to San Francisco. Our menu includes a wide range of viennoiseries, artisanal breads, cakes and sandwiches. Everything is made from scratch in house and with the highest attention to detail. Come by to grab a coffee and croissant!

Thorough Bread & Pastry is a bakery in San Francisco, California. It is listed at 248 Church St, San Francisco, CA 94114, which places it among the local businesses of San Francisco that residents and visitors turn to when they need this kind of service close by.

American bakeries range from wholesale operations that supply restaurants to neighborhood shops that sell bread, pastries, cookies and cakes over the counter, and many of them also pour coffee. Bagel shops boil and bake on site and sell out of favorite flavors by late morning; donut shops open before dawn and are often family-run; patisseries and cake studios take custom orders for weddings and birthdays and usually need one to two weeks' notice. Ice cream parlors, gelato shops and frozen yogurt bars are seasonal in the northern states and year-round in the South and on the West Coast. Prices are posted per item, by the dozen or by the pound, and most shops now take cards and mobile payment.

Hours are published for 5 days a week. Typical hours are 8 am–4 pm. Note that it does not open on Monday, Tuesday. Hours in the United States do change around federal holidays and long weekends, so a quick call before a special trip is sensible. You can reach Thorough Bread & Pastry at (415) 558-0690; calling is usually the quickest way to ask about availability, prices or directions. More information is available on its website, thoroughbreadandpastry.com.

On Google it holds a rating of 4.6 out of 5 from 879 reviews, which is a strong result for a bakery in San Francisco and suggests consistent service.

San Francisco is in California, on the West Coast, where the climate ranges from foggy coast to hot inland valleys, wildfire season can affect air quality in late summer, and traffic is the main thing to plan around. Getting around San Francisco is easiest by car; street parking is metered in busy downtown areas, and most suburban businesses have their own lot. Ride-share apps such as Uber and Lyft operate across California's larger cities, and public transit varies from extensive to minimal.

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