After a number of rounds of voting within the Coloradoan’s first-ever pie bracket, readers have topped The Bread Stylish as Fort Collins’ finest spot for pie.
The Fort Collins bakery — owned by Christie Wealthy — claimed the highest spot within the ultimate spherical in opposition to Little Chicken Bakeshop, incomes readers’ votes simply as Thanksgiving nears on Nov. 27.
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What Makes The Bread Stylish in Fort Collins distinctive?
Christie Wealthy, proprietor of The Bread Stylish, stands in entrance of freshly baked breads on Nov. 21, 2025, in Fort Collins, Colo.
The Bread Stylish opened its first brick-and-mortar location at 130 W. Olive St. on Nov. 26, 2021 — the day earlier than Thanksgiving. Christie Wealthy started promoting her baked items below the Cottage Meals Act in 2015 and recurrently appeared at native farmers markets, bringing her creations on to the Fort Collins neighborhood.
The bakery focuses on San Francisco–fashion sourdough, and its menu additionally consists of croissants, sandwiches, cookies and take-and-bake objects corresponding to pot pies and lasagnas, giving prospects quite a lot of freshly made baked items to get pleasure from.
The bakery’s pies are made with natural butter and natural, regionally sourced flour. In keeping with Wealthy, a few of the high Thanksgiving pies this 12 months have been pumpkin, Dutch apple and pecan.
A mini pumpkin pie is served at The Bread Stylish on Nov. 21, 2025, in Fort Collins, Colo.
What’s San Francisco-style sourdough bread?
Past pies, The Bread Stylish is understood for its San Francisco–fashion sourdough. If you happen to’re not acquainted, San Francisco sourdough is famend for its chewy, tangy taste, and Wealthy says her bakery’s model is distinctive.
“Our sourdough is San Francisco–fashion, which is likely to be completely different from everyone else’s,” she mentioned. “It is a longer course of — 4 days — and that enables us to get a extra bitter taste with a fluffier, crispier crumb.”
The breads are available quite a lot of flavors, together with rosemary, cheddar-jalapeño, multigrain and roasted garlic. They’re additionally generally used within the bakery’s sandwiches.
Sourdough bread within the seasonal pumpkin chocolate chip taste is on show at The Bread Stylish on Nov. 21, 2025, in Fort Collins, Colo.
The place can I get a style of The Bread Stylish pie?
The Bread Stylish at the moment has two places in Fort Collins:
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2601 Lemay Ave., Unit 1 (close to Sprouts)
Each places are open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday by way of Saturday and from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday.
Followers also can discover Wealthy and her crew at native farmers markets, together with the Fort Collins Winter Farmers Market.
A brand new location is about to open later this 12 months. On Nov. 12, Wealthy introduced on Fb that she is taking up Genoa Espresso & Wine at 2614 S. Timberline Street and changing it into Rise & Vine, which is able to open Dec. 8. The brand new location will serve espresso by day and wine by evening — and supply one other approach for folks to benefit from the bakery’s choices.
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The perfect of the remainder
Whereas The Bread Stylish took the highest spot on this 12 months’s pie bracket, all of the featured bakeries acquired loads of votes and help:
Honorable mentions
A handful of readers shared further favourite spots within the Fort Collins space. Whereas these bakeries weren’t featured on this 12 months’s bracket, they may seem within the subsequent:
Abigail Flores-Johnson covers meals, beer and leisure for the Coloradoan. You possibly can attain her by electronic mail at abigailflores-johnson@coloradoan.com
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