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Bakery

A worker-owned cooperative bakery and pizzeria, part of a chain of several in the Bay Area. Vegan items clearly labelled. Usually at least a couple baked vegan treats like vegan muffin and vegan cookie, plus a vegan bread - call ahead. Popular with locals. Serves Equator brand coffee. Arizmendi is the shortened name of Jose Maria Arizmendiarrieta, a young priest who inspired and helped found the Mondragon Cooperatives in the Basque Country of Spain in the 1950s. Open Tue-Sun 7:30am-6:00pm. Closed Mon.


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14 Reviews

First Review by kristinasimons

SarahEAW.

Points +580

Vegetarian
06 Feb 2024

Very very good

I've tried a wide variety of their offerings. The vegan cookies, muffins, scones, and focaccia bread. Everything I've had was very very good. The only downside, they will run out!

Pros: Very good, Reasonable

Cons: Limited seating

villarreallevi

Points +834

Vegan
29 Sep 2022

Great baked goods

I got all of the vegan options - vegan focaccia, lemon poppyseed muffin, banana walnut muffin and vegan mint chocolate chip cookie. Everything was delicious and can’t recommend them enough. Definitely don’t miss the cookies!!

VegDana

Points +43

Vegan
06 Aug 2022

Delicious Cookie

Had a mint chocolate cookie from here and it is one of the best vegan cookies I've ever had. Chewy and chocolatey deliciousness, and quite large too. I also tried some of a friend's banana muffin and that was also very good in texture and taste.

Pros: delicious

jtyburski

Points +897

Vegan
16 Jan 2022

Vegan muffins!

Vegan muffins are hard to come by in SF but arizmendi usually has two varieties: banana walnut and lemon poppy. I’m not usually a fan of lemon poppy so I typically go with banana walnut. However, both flavours are great in their own right.

They also have excellent sourdough breads and rolls. Order ahead so you can skip the awful queues!

Pros: Vegan muffins

Cons: Long queues

misabella

Points +3236

Vegetarian
23 Apr 2021

Amazing Scones!

It's hard to beat their scones, particularly the cranberry and corn!
I wrote the above while still vegetarian. Still true, they were very good, but I do wish they had more vegan options and were at least 100% vegetarian. I have found vegan scones I like even better than these though in the Bay Area.

Updated from previous review on 2021-04-23

dguardado

Points +32

Vegan
10 Feb 2020

🥖🍞🧁

Almost always have a vegan focaccia, vegan muffins (banana walnut or lemon poppyseed), and a vegan cookie (chocolate mint). Some of the other breads are vegan too but it’s good to double check, the ingredients are usually on display. Had a artichoke heart and kale focaccia from there once and it was pretty smack!

IanAlbert

Points +152

Vegan
23 Mar 2019

Love the vegan muffins

Nice place to stop in for a vegan muffin or cookie. The bread is good too.

I wish they had vegan pizza (they never have when I've stopped by--do they ever?).

Pros: Good vegan baked goods

gettingthere

22 Oct 2019

BrittanyHowze

Points +338

Vegan
07 Feb 2018

I love bread

I loved going here before I was vegan, and I still love this place....even though it's not all vegan. I love bread even more than Oprah does, and they got the goods. That said, sometimes on weekends the line can be out the door, and then it's tricky to figure out what you want since it's small inside you have to maneuver around the people in the queue. I recommend that you check their website before visiting and look for the rotating bread schedule, they also list which items are vegan on their website (https://www.arizmendibakery.com/bread). You wouldn't want to go all the way to the bakery hoping to get pumpernickel only to find out you should have gone on a Thursday. They are closed every Monday.

diva

Points +71

Vegan
22 Nov 2017

not enough options

There aren't a lot of vegan choices. Only 1 vegan cookie. Sometimes there is a vegan focaccia, but not always.

vanillaorchid

Points +41

Vegan
17 Nov 2017

great bakery

I go here often because the bread is the best. Some of it is vegan. They also have one or two varieties of vegan muffins, and some wonderful vegan chocolate mint cookies. They usually have one kind of vegan foccia as well. It would be even better if they ditched the oil, which for some reason they drizzle all over the foccia. It’s a mess, an adds unnecessary calories.

Pros: great bread. I love their politics

Cons: the oil on the foccia

eric

Points +20056

Vegan
29 Sep 2013

Not Many Vegan Options

Visited on a sunday and found only 2 vegan options. 1 muffin,1 focaccia.
Apparently sometimes they have more.

Pros: Focaccia

Cons: Limited Vegan

AlanC

Points +81

Vegetarian
22 Jul 2013

Great Bakery and Center of Sunset

This bakery is a breath of fresh air. They have vegan and vegetarian options only and their baked goods are extremely high quality, generously portioned, and the ambience is the best. I wish they had one in our neighborhood. I would quit work.

Pros: Delicious high quality baked goods, Great ambience, Neighborhood place

Cons: Haven't started one in my neighborhood.

Chia

Points +3635

Vegetarian
06 Oct 2012

Yummy Muffin, good coffee

I like good fresh baked goods, so it's not difficult for me to find reasons to like this place. Read about it on happycow and decided that I had to come check it out. Was here in October 2012, here's my Arizmendi Bakery review.

Seemed like quite a popular place with the locals. Lots of people grabbing something to go, some eating outside. the pizza of the day is written on a chalkboard (always with dairy unless you make a special advanced order for a whole pie).

You'll find lots of fresh baked breads and pastries, few labeled as 'gluten-free' and a few labeled as 'vegan.' I got the vegan banana-nut muffin, a vegan apricot cookie, and their coffee (Equator brand). Everything was yummy, including the coffee.

Would definitely come back again next time I'm in the area.

kristinasimons

Points +20

Vegan
09 Sep 2012

Probably the best bakery in SF

This is my neighborhood bakery. My boyfriend and I go there at least 3 times a week. The focaccia is the best, usually they have a vegan option as well. Really good coffee too. All organic ingredients, really yummy. I recently went gluten free and Arizmendi is the one thing I still crave daily.

Pros: healthy cusine, good value, excellent food




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