The Guardian ran an article on April 22, 2025, about bakery tourism.  Bakery pilgrims in countries as far flung as the United Kingdom and South Korea are traveling their lands on itineraries which take them from one great bakery to the next.

There is a sense of camaraderie among bakery tourists who travel great distances to enjoy the pastries and other treats offered by the very best bakeries.  These long-distance bakery-seekers usually search for small bakeries run by an owner-baker at a single site.  And they don’t mind standing in long queues to receive their rewards — seeing these long lines as confirmation that they’ve found some place special.

In a sense, the two of us have for the last nine years been bakery tourists.  Wherever we’ve been in the United States and Canada, we’ve hunted down the very best of the very best bakeries in the land.  And those that make the grade are written up here on Bad Dogs and Bakeries.com.

We invite our loyal readers to use our collection of America’s very best bakeries — those found in this section on this website — to map out their own bakery tourism itineraries and experience the same joys and pleasures that we have while assembling this collection of bakeries for you.