Fire Island Rustic Bakeshop

"Fire Island Rustic Bakeshop for artisan bread and pastries." - Bailey Berg

"A much loved local bakery with three locations – one in South Anchorage, one downtown, and one in the East Anchorage neighborhood of Airport Heights – Fire Island offers fresh daily artisan breads, pastries, sandwiches and soup. The newest location is located in a new K Street Market building in downtown Anchorage, with That Feeling Co, a plant shop with great coffee, Johnny’s Produce, a small produce shop with juices and smoothies, and La Bodega, a boutique liquor store. Every Fire Island location has indoor and outdoor seating." - Julia O'Malley

"Fire Island, in the heart of South Addition, one of Anchorage’s oldest neighborhoods, handcrafts an astonishingly delicious array of baked goods, breads, sandwiches, and savory delights that keep locals lining up for more. The bakery uses as much local produce as it can squeeze into its scones and muffins, offers interesting flavor combos, and serves up a tofu banh mi that is one of the finest tofu sandwiches known to man. If you’re hanging out in Anchorage for more than a day or two, check out the class schedule. You could leave Alaska with some serious sourdough skills. Please note: Fire Island is closed Mondays and Tuesdays, as well as most of January."

"Fire Island, in the heart of South Addition, one of Anchorage’s oldest neighborhoods, handcrafts an astonishingly delicious array of baked goods, breads, sandwiches, and savory delights that keep locals lining up for more. The bakery uses as much local produce as it can squeeze into its scones and muffins, offers interesting flavor combos, and serves up a tofu banh mi that is one of the finest tofu sandwiches known to man. If you’re hanging out in Anchorage for more than a day or two, check out the class schedule. You could leave Alaska with some serious sourdough skills. Please note: Fire Island is closed Mondays and Tuesdays, as well as most of January."

"Fire Island Rustic Bakeshop in Anchorage, Alaska, is a place 'for us.' Housed in a nothing-special building in a residential part of Anchorage with lousy parking and a checkered past, the bakery wasn’t opened with the intention to serve the legion of tourists who flock to Anchorage every summer to take selfies against the backdrop of Mount Susitna. Fire Island was established by lifelong Alaskans Janis Fleischman and Jerry Lewanski, a retired school assistant principal and her husband who hired their daughter and son-in-law as their first bakers. This place was built for actual Alaskans, the kind who know that June is a prize won only by wresting victory over February, a month so dark and relentless that its pain could only be salved by a raspberry scone the size of a rugby ball." - ByGenevieve Roth