APPOLONIA POLLÂNE

Baker, a profession that engages all the senses
Our tradition is to have a contemporary outlook on our craft to feed our patrons daily. We believe that our production choices echo our societies’ desire to eat wholesome and quality products. We hope that our passion and dedication for baking provides breads for the body, as well as food for the mind!

From grain to bread, since 1932, Poilâne is dedicated to applying its ‘retro-innovation’ philosophy:
Bridging the best of past and current techniques to bake quality bread without compromise.
Apollonia Poilâne is the third generation in charge of her family’s bakery, and one of the rare women in her craft. Through the breads, pastries and biscuits she and her team produce, she expresses her engagements, creativity and singularity.

UNIQUE

For over 85 years, batch after batch, we have fed our own natural sourdough making for breads that keep longer, and accounting for a unique taste. Wheat stored without pesticides, the gentle millstone that creates flour with preserved nutrients, the slow and natural fermentation of sourdough, an oven heated with recycled wood. All breads, pastries and biscuits are baked in our wood-fired ovens.

HANDCRAFTED

Baker, a profession that engages all the senses.

My father and grandfather, like I, see the value in the human agency in the bread-making process. Throughout their 9-month long apprenticeship, bakers learn how to attune their 5-senses to the needs of the dough to ensure the same quality bread despite seasonal changes and weather conditions on the day they bake. There lies so much beauty in using our hands to shape the loaves and pastries we make every day.

HAPPINESS

Our tradition is to have a contemporary outlook on our craft to feed our patrons daily.

We believe that our production choices echo our societies’ desire to eat wholesome and quality products. We hope that our passion and dedication for baking provides breads for the body, as well as food for the mind! One uses the five senses, which perhaps explains the fulfilling feeling one has after having finished baking the batch.