City Bakery was found as a local wholesale artisan bakery in 2007 by owner Michael Bortz. Michael is a 3rd generation chocolatier whose family came over from Germany in 1906 and found the Bortz Chocolate Company in Reading, Pennsylvania. Michael has an extensive and diverse repertoire, both culinarily and otherwise. His approach to baking bread is to fine-tune formulas to his personal tastes while staying true to traditional methods and great quality. It is a difficult task to balance maximum freshness and quality alongside timeliness and efficiency, but now he has it down to an art. His background in the restaurant industry as an executive chef helps him understand and accommodate the bread and pastry needs of local restaurants.

As with most businesses, there were a few stumbling blocks getting started, but these were sorted out quickly and now the mornings run smoothly. The crew gets in at 2am to start mixing fresh bread for the day. We use all natural pre-ferments such as biga, poolish, and sourdough starter in many of our breads. Pre-ferments enhance the flavor of the final products by allowing the flavors to mature for longer periods of time before mixing the dough, an act as natural preservatives, meaning better bread for our customers. After shaping, proofing, backing, cooling, and packing, deliveries are ready to start shipping at 8am. We deliver all over the greater Denver metro area, as well as Boulder and Westminster. Our customers range from coffee shops to sandwich shops, breakfast eateries to steakhouses, some of whom we’ve partnered with since we opened!