Fire Island Rustic Bakeshop

Thank God I found this gem on my last day in Anchorage rather than my first. I could become a stalker of the fresh baked goods oozing out of this place. One sniff of the aroma as the door opened and I knew I could do some serious damage here.
The clearly inspired selection of creative bread options was my first obstacle to overcome. Several traditional varieties sit side by side some seed-​covered creative blends. They all looked flawless and about 25 uses and accompaniments for them raced through my head. But I persevered.
Next you have to sneak past the pastry options. This is where I failed. Luckily I had just finished a small lunch so I could rationalize something from the homey filled baskets in the case. I opted for a pear and ginger scone that was ideally barely clumped together. This meant the dough surrounding the nuggets of pear and sugared ginger was light and fluffy. And it meant the baker knew this and had the courage to risk such softly packed goodness. The flavor was the perfect balance of sugar and butter, yet allowed the signature fruits to carry the flavor burden. I can’t imagine a better attempt at this scone.
The young woman who helped me seemed amused by my joy in choosing this pastry. And she made me feel confident they wanted me back as a customer by allowing me to use a credit card for a total less than their minimum. I truly had no idea of this policy, and no cash at all. She politely told me it was not a problem but asked that next time I remember.
To be honest if that’s all I have to do to get back to this bastion of baked wonderment I will so willingly comply. I left thinking my experience could truly not have been better. This relatively new addition to the Anchorage food scene is just another example of how wonderfully honest and truly creative the food craftsmanship is in this community.

Absolutely love coming here! I love how they push the envelope but introducing and mixing in new flavors to enhance the flavor explosion. It gets pretty hectic but the line moves very fast. Try everything at some point, you will not be disappointed. It is expensive but the quality and outstanding craftsmanship is well worth this little luxury– as they say, «treat yourself!» Quick tip: bring cash if you’re thinking of spending less that $ 10 (which is hard to do) but just in case!
A few favorites:
Chocolate Croissant (BEST IN TOWN)
Fire Island Rustic Wheat
Ginger Pumpkin Muffin
Über Muffin
Scones (any variety)
Peanut Butter Crème Cookie
Chocolate Cake (super rich, eat with ice cream!)

Awesome bakery that typically looks like the green room for Americas next top model inside. Never had something from here that wasn’t delicious. Even the birdseed bars are great, and I generally think gluten free food is an instrument of the devil to remove all the joy from the world. Great food!

Portland quality bakery in Anchorage, praise Jesus! Macarons with passion fruit are THE BEST ever, scones are the best in town. Sandwiches are very good and flavorful, and the bread is amazing. Bring a baguette home and make some of your own yummy sandwiches not open Monday and Tuesday but the food is so good I don’t mind.

Purchased some cranberry pecan bread and a pumpkin cake for our Christmas dinner party and was pleasantly surprised at what this bakery had to offer. It was my first time here and they had an excellent selection of baked and savory goods. The only con is the venue is small… think motorhome size. Other than that everything was good. Will definitely stop by again next time I’m in Anchorage :)

Not much I can say that hasn’t been said already.
Great, super-​deluxe baked goods at (deservedly) super-​deluxe prices.
If you’re going to be a guest at a party/​dinner/​holiday, this is a great place to stop and pick up some unique goodies. I picked up a great gift basket for Thanksgiving (they are OPEN on Thanksgiving!)
Prices are too steep for me to come here on a regular basis though.

We’re regulars. Can’t resist the ginger cream cookies, peanut butter cream cookies, sourdough boule and focaccia. A special splurge for local tasty baked goods.

I love coming here every once in a while. They have the best cupcakes with filling in town. They also have the freshest and tastiest bread. Their Focaccia breads with toppings are the best. The only downside I see is how expensive their food is. You can easily spend $ 20 on just a couple of items. Other than that they’re wonderful.

The chocolate chip cookies are some of the best I’ve ever had and I love their sandwiches, which rotate daily. This is my favorite pit stop to make for a quick breakfast or lunch, and the service is always very friendly! Once my husband and I were sitting down to enjoy our sandwiches next to the kitchen and were offered fresh chocolate chip cookies right out of the oven, for free! It was our first time trying them and we’ve been hooked ever since. The generous baker explained how much time and effort had been put into every recipe they serve, and you can tell it’s paid off!

Nice little place in City View /​Airport Heights, it’s worth a stop through for quick bakery items and ready made sandwiches.

They don’t put prices out for their customers to see-​you have to ask-​quite pretentious if you ask me but that goes right along with the kitchy wooden platforms and elaborate boxes for simple cookies. Obviously they spent a lot of money on their boxes and displays – if only they had spent as much on the baked goods. I had what I think they called Alaskan Sourdough bread (not positive on the title-​sorry) for-​$ 6 and it was worth every penny. Hands down it was the best thing I bought and I bought a lot-​no prices so easy to spend when you don’t know what your spending! Meringue cookies were hard and not sweet at all-​hard to do with meringue. Salted Caramel tart-​was tart-isn’t caramel supposed to be sweet? Cupcake-blueberry=dry-yes dry and it had blueberries! So how they managed to ruin what should have been a perfect cupcake I’ll never know. The macaroons –so HARD I could barely bite through to take a bite. Good flavor but darn. Way to hard. My sister are the chocolate chip cookie but it was crumbly and not soft and chewy which is how I like my cookies. In closing all I can say is spend more money on your baking and less on the cardboard boxes with windows!
Added after reading other reviews:
I am truly offended to learn sandwiches and other food that’s not in the cases is offered to other customers. My mother, average size, myself, frankly overweight and my overweight sister with Down’s Syndrome came in today, Thursday-12:40pm or so and I specifically asked the server if there was any other food than what was in the cases? She kinda shrugged and pointed at the cases not really answering me. My mother than asked if there was any soups. She loves homemade soups and always asks wherever we go. She was told no. Is this true? I guess I’ll never know because I certainly won’t be back. Was this an intentional slight? Are we not the type of people you want to sit and eat in your bakery? Are we not hip enough? Are we, my sister and I too big to sit at your tiny tables? Is that the reason you have stairs instead of a could easily be installed ramp for handicapped folk? I’d truly like to know. Was lunch over at 12:45? Were you out of bread for the day? Maybe there’s a simple innocent answer that I haven’t considered. I truly hope that is the case. But it doesn’t feel innocent when I look back at the attitude of the service we received. At the time I just thought I had offended in some manner or that the server was having a bad day. Now I’m not so sure.

Super cute place very friendly, really good breads and pastries and the customer service is great :)

I read all the reviews and was excited to try this place. It’s in a great neighborhood, cute, place, and the bakery goods LOOK great.
However, after giving this place many tries, I have been vastly disappointed. Everything is pretty… bland. And dry.
The croissants are not true croissants — they are dry and tasteless. I even tried the chocolate croissant, which had the most pathetically small amount of chocolate I’ve ever experienced in a pain au chocolat. It was truly ridiculous. I saw someone mention that they liked the croissants here because they weren’t buttery like other places. Yeah, that’s because these are bad croissants.
We tried a couple different focaccias. Woke up early to get there and have a fresh one for breakfast one weekend morning, and had one for dinner one night. Same thing — they LOOK good, but are so bland.
We purchased different breads — maybe bread is their thing. Was immediately disappointed with how heavy/​dense the breads were. As someone who bakes bread all the time, these breads did not seem like they had been given enough time (or the right environment) to rise properly. Again, bland.
On top of that, this place is not cheap, so I spent a lot of money experimenting, only to keep getting disappointed. I can only attribute the tremendous number of high reviews of this place to the trendiness of it, or to the fact that these are from people who’ve simple don’t know any better. I grew up in Anchorage, left and lived in many other places, traveled to many more, and moved back. This place is over-​hyped and trendy.
The Paris Bakery and Café has much better croissants and breads. The owner/​chef there is from France.

This is an absolute must stop when you are around downtown. Fabulous local bakery with French baked goods. I had a blueberry and cornmeal scone that was amazing. They bake fresh artisan breads and daily baked goods. They also feature sandwiches that others around me were complimenting vigorously.

I have been living under a rock! How could I have possibly missed this place so close to my house!
Cozy neighborhood bakery with lots of yummy treats. I got some sourdough bread… some of the best in town! A bag of macaroons ended up in my cart as well. Everything looked so scrumptious! I just wish I was on a high carb diet!
Prices are a little steep, but having worked in my family’s bakery for a couple of summers in Hawaii, I know how much work and love go into baked goods.

This is a cute bakery. It’s very small inside. Everyone raves about the baked goods here and everything inside smells nice.
But. The baked goods are not old at all. Everything is sub par. Everything is dry. There are no memorable flavors or anything and everything is expensive for such low quality stuff. Maybe they expect you to eat everything. With milk or a gallon of water.
It was a waste of money coming here. I’d rather bake at home or go to the Flying Dutchman, great harvest, Charlie’s Bakery or Paris Bakery and Café.

Went here today and got the following:
Focaccia flat bread (had cauliflower, bleu cheese, olive oil and mushrooms)
BLT Sandwich (get the Thai veggie sandwich if it’s available or the egg salad!)
Chocolate Chip Cookie (WOW, they are soooo addictive. Butter crisp outside and a soft inside that just melts.)
Lemon macaroon (my fav flavors are lemon, pistachio, coffee and pumpkin spice)
Yummy! I didn’t like the sandwich as much as their Thai veggie one I have had in the past.
The chocolate chip cookies are to die for! I like to come here and stock up on goodies and then venture to a nearby café. Come here on Fridays to get the Challah Bread! It’s the perfect loaf for Saturday Frenchtoast. They have a bread schedule, I recommend picking that up.
FYI: They are closed on Mondays & Tuesdays. Ride your bike here in the summer, totally worth it.

I love the fact that this place is tucked away in a residential neighborhood. These guys do baked goods right. They give justice to baked goods in a way so many other places in Anchorage fail. Will you pay a premium for the goods at fire island? definitely. My hope is that the prices & the quality remain the same.
I love coming here at odd hours to avoid long crowds, but it’s also kind of fun to come here on Saturday mornings when it’s really bustling. The service is prompt and straight-​forward (this is not the type of place where you should ponder & converse over the baked goods selections for too long). You will likely annoy the staff, who have been running efficiently on caffeine since 4am and you will likely annoy the person in line behind you.
Highlights: delicious, flaky croissants that aren’t drenched in butter. Not that I mind butter, but these croissants just seem truer. The ham, cheddar & chive scone is incredibly savory, crumbly and perfectly dotted with its highlighted ingredients. I love the baguette here — I can recognize their baguette from across a room. Roof of mouth cutting exterior and delicate & chewy interior, this is what a baguette SHOULD be. The chocolate chip cookies are usually still warm and delicious.
The sandwiches are yummy — definitely heavy on the bread and not so much on the inside goods, but they use interesting ingredients and combinations and are filling enough.
I haven’t yet shelled out the money for a tart, afraid that for the hefty cost I will be disappointed, but just writing that it strikes me as a silly notion. This place is quite special — I look forward to trying more items.

From my perspective, this is unequivocally the best bakery in the city. Their baguettes just like the ones I used to buy from a boulangerie near my apartment in Cherbourg years ago: crunchy on the outside, soft and chewy inside, and the perfect light flavor. I also like their creative pastries and savory treats, from the almost sinful peanut butter cookie sandwich, moist and delectable chocolate cupcakes, and amazing tiny cakes (that pack a huge, sweet wallop) to their ham and cheese scones, steak sandwich, and beef bourguinon galette (how awesome is that? The perfect take-​home dinner).
It would be great if the shop were more comfortable for eating in – the tables fit only two, and not comfortably when the place is packed, and the seats aren’t that great – but I’m happy to eat that food anywhere I can get it. I’ll be back. Oh yes.

Fire Island Rustic Bakeshop came recommended from a friend of a friend, so we made sure to try it for an early morning stop before heading out of Anchorage. It was definitely well worth the little excursion!
Fire Island is apparently legendary in the area and with good reason. The shop itself is tiny with a bustling open kitchen/​baking area, and their interesting, gorgeous goods displayed for the picking up front. My friend and I each had a savory croissant with egg and cheese in it, and those were great. We took a couple of things to go including a buckwheat cinnamon roll which we later enjoyed (also terrific). Paired with a hot cup of coffee, this makes a great breakfast or even lunch spot. Quick, affordable and charming!