Lyon Bakery

Simply the best bakery in the region. I buy their sourdough each week at Odd Provisions or Each Peach in DC but you can find them at an array of quality markets and grocers in the DMV. I've tried so many of their different artisanal breads and they're all incredible.It's such a blessing to have a source for high-quality bread that's fresh and not heavily processed.

Came across Lyon bakery brand at MOMS ORGANIC market. I couldn't be more pleased.I come from a very European background of eating, so my tastebuds aren't like most Americans. I'm also from LA, and we have plenty of amazing bakeries, bread shoppes and wonderful food all around. I've had a tough time here in DC these last few months- the food quality just isn't the same, and the breads have all sucked. Thankfully I found mother's market, which I LOVE- and that first day of finding the market, I went right for the local baguette & sourdough. BOTH of which are fantastic. They are fresh, they last forever too! I can't believe how long my sourdough lasted! Anyway, if you're looking for the best bread in DC, you'd better get Lyon, they won't disappoint! It's the only brand or bread I'll be buying/eating here!!!

We really enjoy the fresh sourdough and olive bread each time we come to the Union Market in Washington DC. We always get some fresh vegetables, an assortment of interesting cheeses, and a condiment or two (don't give us that look... mayo is a good thing!) and we're set for lunch all week!

Super in love with Lyon Bakery! The brioche buns, the sourdough loaf, the burger buns are all exceptional. My biggest regret is getting 4 of the cheddar and jalapeno buns. OH. MY. GOSH. I should've gotten 20. They are so perfectly baked, with these cheese pockets and a nice gentle sprinkling of jalapeno through the buns. Plain, slightly warmed in the microwave and buttered, as my breakfast sandwich bun or, if you want your mind completely blown-- as a grilled cheese with tomato-- these things are one of the best bread products my mouth has been lucky enough to chew.

This bakery in Union Market is not just in Union Market. If you have been to a local restaurant that serves fabulous sliced, hearth-baked bread, you have very likely consumed a produce from Lyon Bakery. I was delighted to know that they source to so many local restaurants, but more importantly, I am delighted that if I am at Union Market that I can get my own loaf in its entirety!These loaves are fabulously baked artisan creations that look beautiful and taste wonderful. There are some classic choices here that showcase the talent of this boulangerie, like the sourdough, the baguette and the pain levain. When it's good, you'll know by the open crumb structure, thin but crispy crust and a moist inside that can be torn apart or sliced without crumbling. The flavors have been well developed with their starters, giving their bread a chance to contend with some great bakeries on the West Coast or further north of DC (i.e. New York!). This bread is of the quality that when you slice it, you may just want to smell it to recognize what good bread smells like. Yes, it's complete with appealing aroma, crust, flavor, crumb and texture.I also appreciate that when you are at the market, all the ingredients are listed right there for you to read, so you don't have to ask too many questions before deciding which loaf you'd like. Be careful though - as you read the ingredients, you may recognize how you'd like to buy several loaves... reason for a party!It is rare to find a decent bread bakery here in DC, and I would place this in the top 2 or 3. The walnut raisin is such a treat - a slice by itself is satisfying enough, but, toast it to make it warm and crisp, wow.Their breads are great alone, accompaniment for meals or as sandwich bases. The slices make a sandwich into a creation!

Update: they heard their customers and did away with the $5 card minimum! When you're selling loaves for $4 and change it was so frustrating.Previous review:Decent bread, good selection.Went in for a loaf of rosemary, while juggling an infant and other groceries. Guy rang me up and then wouldn't take my debit card. Tried to explain a number of combinations of things that would get me to their required minimum. At this point I just left. Way to do business

Really subpar. Have tried pretty much all of their breads. The "sourdough" one has no sourdough taste to speak of. Tastes like plain old Wonder-esque bread. The other stuff is equally blah--walnut raisin, olive...just a really poor bakery.

Where I come from, there's literally a bakery on every corner. The SF Bay has many manifold iterations of alters to bread making, creating a culture of bread snobbery, or (more sympathetically) a deep and abiding love for leavening culture. From Acme to Semifreddie's to Grace to Vital Vittles (whom I drove a bread truck for in my youthful days), in Northern California we worship our yeast + flour based foods, with intense loyalties and attachments to match.Washington DC's bread offerings have been quite meager in my one year here. There's Pain Quotidienne's decent baguettes that I suspect are flown in frozen from France, some OK stuff at Au Bon Pain, and really quite miserable stubs of bread from Trader Joe's.So it was with serendipitous joy during one meal @ Logan Tavern that I bit into a sumptuous, wholesome, tasty piece of bread served in a pre-dinner basket. After devouring two baskets to satiate my long neglected jonesing for quality baguette, I asked the waiter where the bread was from. "Lyon Bakery" he said, "but they only sell wholesale direct to restaurants, no retail."After a couple somewhat sly attempts to impersonate a very small restauranteur calling Lyon direct in need of "one or two" baguettes, I resolved that I'd have to go back to Logan and order meals just to taste their fantastic bread.But lo and behold, walking through the main entrance of Union Station, there's these new fandagoed farmer's market style stands flanking the in & out commuters. Mistaking them at first as a gimmick faux artisanal food sellers who jack up the prices to fool rich urbanites into parting with their $, I almost walked by the bread stand which read out in little God-sent letters "Lyon's Bakery."$2 Baguettes that are literally unmatched in the DMV!It's a price/flavor that is both jaw-dropping and mouth-watering for this California boy to consider.Do at least grab one of their baguettes on your way to and fro from Union Station next time you're there, you shan't be disappointed!

As far as I know Lyon Bakery isn't building their business as a retail bakery like Firehook or some of the bagel establishments. Instead they have a burgeoning B2B business model that likely includes some of these 1-Star reviewers favorite haunts. When did you imagine local hotels had time to bake fresh bread? -Challah!!

Found the bakery but no one answered the door. I really wanted to get some of that walnut bread. I can't really give a good rating here. Wish someone would of answered the door.