H&F Bread Co. was founded in 2008 by James Beard Award-winning Chef Linton Hopkins and his long time friend and entrepreneur ... Joe Best. Their vision was to produce something that couldn’t be found elsewhere in Atlanta at the time: delicious artisan bread, baked fresh daily. This bread garnered the attention of the culinary community and demand grew the business into a fully functional wholesale bakery, delivering fresh bread daily to customers citywide. When H&F was started they filled a niche, supplying Great Bread to restaurants who wanted “To enhance the dining experience with artisan baked goods of the highest quality and consistency”. Today that is our Mission Statement. As a steward of delivering consistent quality baked products to the marketplace H&F has received significant awards, including: Top 10 Bakeries in the US by Bon Appetit Magazine, One of the Top Bakeries in the South by Southern Living One of our Head Bakers won Top 10 Bakers by Dessert Professional Magazine In order to meet the ever-increasing demands on our products and to expand our distribution throughout the Southeast, H&F is testing a “Fresh Frozen” product line. Without changing recipes we tested our products using different Individual Quick Frozen (“IQF”) machines. The results of these tests proved that several of our products can go through an IQF process thawed out and taste as good as our fresh products. What does this mean for our Partners? H&F products can be shipped frozen to locations outside of Georgia and our remote Partners can serve artisan bread products to their customers. H&F will maintain some of our best selling products frozen so that we will be able to meet last minute demands of our Partners that book last minute parties or catering events. We are expanding to a second location within a mile of our Ellsworth facility. In this new facility, we will expand our automation and focus of specific product lines, but all products will remain Artisan. read more