Bakeries

Old Europe Pastries is a bakery and coffee shop on Broadway Street in downtown Asheville. According to its website, it blends traditional French and European baking techniques with comforting flavors, and its desserts and pastries are made from scratch. The site mentions flaky croissants and signature sponge cakes filled with mousse. It serves locally roasted coffee and espresso from Dynamite Roasting Co. in nearby Black Mountain. You can view the daily menu and order for in-store pickup on the website. Old Europe also takes custom order, wedding and catering inquiries through its site.

Butterbug's Baked-to-Order is a micro-bakery in the Asheville area. Its website says it works by appointment only and makes its desserts to order from scratch, without preservatives. The menu includes cakes and cupcakes, with wedding cakes available. The site lists flavors such as chocolate, vanilla sour cream and coconut cream layer cake, along with filling and frosting choices. Vegan and gluten-free options are offered. The bakery notes it is not a gluten-free kitchen and cannot guarantee a fully gluten-free product. It says it has been baking since 2002 and serves Woodfin and the greater Asheville area.

Baked Pie Company is a pie shop at 4 Long Shoals Road in Arden, just south of Asheville near Hendersonville Road. According to WLOS, a mother and daughter started it after they could not find a place nearby for scratch-made pie and coffee, and it opened in April 2017. The pie menu rotates. WLOS listed flavors such as honey pecan, blueberry muffin, pecan cheesecake, lemon meringue, shoofly, apple crumb and Hawaiian pineapple. The shop also serves pie flights, which are three slim slices with ice cream, and coffee. Its website has an online ordering page, so check there for the current pie list.

Fletcher Village Bakery is a bakery and cafe in the St. Johns plaza off Hendersonville Road in Fletcher. It is the second location of The Village Bakeries, which opened its first bakery in Flat Rock in 2001, according to its website. The menu includes pastries, coffee and espresso, breakfast sandwiches, bagels, sandwiches, soups and salads. The site says the Fletcher cafe has a seating area for working or lunch and is open seven days a week. Wood-fired pizza is served only at the Flat Rock location. This location is also the base for the bakery's specialty cakes and desserts, which can be ordered for events. The bakeries say they use local and organic ingredients where they can.

Blue Ridge Biscuit Company is a breakfast spot at 601 W State Street, Suite 4, in Black Mountain. Its website says it has been making biscuits since 2013 and aims to serve breakfast in a traditional southern atmosphere. The menu is built around fresh-baked buttermilk cathead biscuits, with a gluten free biscuit available as a substitution. You can get a biscuit with egg, cheese, sausage gravy or shiitake gravy, plus a breakfast platter and "twisted" biscuit sandwiches such as fried chicken with bacon and cheddar, or smoked trout spread with a poached egg. The site says the jams and breads are made in house, and the shop sources some items from other small businesses, such as chai from AppalaChai! and coffee from Dynamite Roasting Company. It offers dine-in and call-in to-go orders, plus a catering page.

OWL Bakery, short for Old World Levain, is a bakery at 295 Haywood Road in West Asheville. Its website describes naturally leavened breads and European-inspired pastries, all made by hand. The bakery also has a North Asheville shop on Charlotte Street and a separate cake shop on the same street. Menus for the West and North locations are posted as PDFs on its site, along with a bread schedule. OWL takes special orders for pastries, breads and cakes for celebrations, and it has a page for weddings. Questions about hours or online ordering can go to the email address on its website.