Industry Food manufacture Area served California CEO Clarice Turner (2016–) Type of business Private | Founder Isidore Boudin Products Baked goods Headquarters San Francisco | |
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Key people Fernando Padilla (Master baker) Owner Lou Giraudo
Sharon Duvall Founded 1849, San Francisco, California, United States Profiles | ||
History of san francisco sourdough boudin bakery
Boudin Bakery (Anglicized pronunciation: "boo-DEEN") is a bakery based in San Francisco, California, known for its sourdough bread (self-proclaimed as the "Original San Francisco Sourdough French Bread"). It was established in 1849 by Isidore Boudin, son of a family of master bakers from Burgundy, France, by blending the sourdough prevalent among miners in the Gold Rush with French techniques.
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Steven Giraudo, an artisan baker from Italy whose first job in America was at Boudin, bought the bakery in 1941 but later sold it. After a series of ownership changes the bakery was bought by two of Giraudo's sons through an investment bank.
The bakery has locations on Fisherman's Wharf near San Francisco Bay, Disney California Adventure Park, and 30 other cafés scattered throughout California. The main bakery in San Francisco is in the Richmond District on the corner of 10th Avenue and Geary Boulevard. The Boudin Bakery hosts the attraction "The Bakery Tour" at Disney California Adventure, where tourists are given a tour about how sourdough bread is produced. The bakery still uses the same starter yeast-bacteria culture it developed during the California Gold Rush.
The first outlet outside California at the Yorktown Center mall in Lombard, Illinois closed in mid-2009 after about a year.