The Rustic Loaf

If you love bread, you will like this place. If you want great tasting, homemade, baked daily and naturally made bread, this is the place! It’s worth giving it a try and exploring all their breads. I love their scones. They are amazing!

There are few places these days which offer not only quality service but unique and individual taste and style to their items and goods so when I come across a place with individuality I have to highly recommend it.

Awesome service and great bread! I needed thinly sliced bread for finger sandwiches and was clueless when I called. He said he’d wait for me to arrive so I he could personally slice it for me. He patiently waited and we figured the standard slice should work and I am now in possession of some deliciousness that will be hard to not eat before Sunday!

If you were looking for good sourdough bread then you need to come here the bread is the best and the staff is very nice and friendly.

Their sourdough breads options where fresh and delicious but the scones where the best I’ve had in years no joke.

The Artisan Bread is great it is made fresh daily, the cookies are Delicious and the jalapeño cheddar bread makes for a great sandwich…

Excellent service. Excellent breads.
Made of sea salt, flour and water, the Kneaders at The Rustic Loaf use a traditional 3-​time fermentation process which levels and rises the bread naturally, without added chemicals that NO ONE wants in their diet. That is enough to draw my attention!
Located at the crossing od 659 East 15^th St and Campus Ave in Upland, this is a bakery close to home, and the heart. You are greeted the instant you walk in (not only by a person, but by a nice lil’ bell) and an assortment of cheesy breads, fruity breads and basic breads smacks you in the face.
From asiago, jalepeno jack, french baquette and sourdough, you’ll have a harder time choosing what you want to leave with than you will figuring out how to get here. They also sell marmalades and infused oils for your dipping and spreading pleasure.
Lets not forget muffins, scones, and cookies!
Mark, whom I believe is the owner, kindly guided me through which types of bread will suit what dippings, what kind of toppings will taste best on which breads, etc. very helpful, very friendly customer service. Prices are posted on the wall near the breadstands. Two loaves only cost me ten dollars! Like, WOW is it worth it!
I highly recommend the jalepeno jack bread for a spicy, cheesy kick in the mouth. It is definitly a joy ride!
Thank you, Mark and associates, for an awesome experience!

Best bread in town! Made fresh daily, great assortment of bread, same base dough with added ingredients! When you have a great product why change it!

The cranberry walnut bread soooo good, especially for chicken salad sandwich. The scones are very good.

By far my favorite bakery, amazing bread and scones. I like them so much because they don’t use preservatives and everything is so fresh. I got my whole family hooked on their jalapeño cheddar sourdough loaf

I love everything they make. Great loaves. Scones are delicious.

Their service is wonderful, the breads are fresh, and everything tastes amazing! Closed on Monday and sometimes they run out of your favorite flavor, but all of the loaves are great. I don’t even like jalapeños, but that bread is definitely worth trying. A bit on the pricey side, but I’ll be back for the specialty breads. Cranberry Walnut for French toast, Lemon Rosemary… just because!

I can’t stand how amazing their sourdough loaves are! Every bite is a fluffy piece of sourdough heaven in your mouth. My favorites are the Asiago Sourdough and Lemon Rosemary Sourdough, both at very reasonable prices. They come to the USC Farmer’s Market every Wednesday, which is awesomely convenient for a USC student like me! I love that they only use fresh, natural, and wholesome ingredients. There service is always friendly, as well!

Love this place — great bread and cookies. Have been a regular since they opened.
I really like most of there breads — especially the HARVEST and Cranberry Walnut.
Love your bread and your employees are always great. It has become one of our stops during our Friday bike rides. Great place to stop for a scone and coffee.

AWESOME little bakery! The scones are the best I have EVER had! Yum! Reasonable prices and quality products! Recommend!

If you want to spend a buck or two more on something than you usually do, then let it be bread. Especially Rustic Loaf’s bread. I have yet to try all of them, but everything I’ve had so far has been so fresh and flavorful. Store-​bought bread absolutely can not hold a candle to the bread here. Whip up a gourmet grilled cheese, stack up a hefty cold sandwich, or just eat it plain, you can’t go wrong. Also, the scones are some of the best I’ve had; well-​balanced graininess and sweetness. So glad that I live within walking distance.

Harvest Loaf is delicious and I like Squaw bread so I really enjoyed their version. Large cookies to but Thomas Jefferson wasn’t to impressed so that is all I’ll say about that. They have Peets Coffee which was quite tasty they also slice the bread for you too!
My early days at Warburton’s Bakery when I was a teenager in Boston has taught me GOOD fresh bread and this is the place. Located off of Campus in a strip mall it can be difficult to find if you are relying on your google map or some other means as the street address list it on 6^th street when really it’s on Campus.
I can’t wait to get some yummy cheese to make Grilled Cheese sandwiches on their bread Oh AND they have a really nice high-​end marmalade by Frog Hollow Farms which is hard to find so be sure to pick up some!
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The cranberry walnut loaf is perfect even when you eat it a few days later (just make sure to wrap it up well with some wrap). It’s not overly sweet or salty (La Brea, I am talking about you!). The flirtatious sweetness of the cranberry pieces and subtle nuttiness of walnuts are quite different from what I’ve experienced with other rustic breads – clean and simple, which may come off as bland.
I’ve tried the Lemon Rosemary bread as well, it was sadly a loaf doused in olive oil, suppressing the beautiful rosemary and lemon flavors. Maybe it was an off-​day for the baker preparing this particular bread. My verdict? For lemon rosemary bread, I’ll probably go elsewhere.
Short and sweet:
— you feel less terrible and unhealthy because of the ingredients used
— crusty outside, moist inside
— not up to the quality of Zoe Nathan’s baked goods
— may disappoint those who are infatuated with Scarpetta’s breadbasket
— best served after you wrap it in saran wrap and microwave it for about 20 – 30 seconds the next day

A short anecdote…
I grew up a couple of blocks away from Boudin’s on 10^th and Geary in SF so I can relate to fresh bread. As a youth, my friends and I ran off with a fresh sourdough bread round once tucked under the front of our jackets as we walked by the open rollup doors and snatched them from their cooling racks and bolted up the street. One of my friends who was with me would find me years later on FB and told me that his son wanted to meet the infamous bread thief that he had heard of so often before…
I’m sure that salty, crusty taste of Boudin is due to the mild SF climate and the mother yeast that it is proofed from. The people at the Rustic Loaf go through a similar process I’m sure to come up with their artisan breads. I know that they deliver to Claro’s among other markets, so I can get it without too much trouble, but it’s nice to be able to get it sometimes from the source. The Upland store is small, modest, clean, and cute; not as production looking as Old Town Baking Company’s store. The bread rounds are sorted in their respective wicker baskets for you to pick
. On this occasion, I was after the Rye bread to make some Rueben sandwiches at home. It was crusty on the outside, soft and dense on the inside with a sharp grainy rye taste that I was looking for. The flavor was only heightened when we toasted it under a panini press…
They have a bread slicer on the premises of course if you wanted it sliced. I took the last rye bread and it was around 300pm on a Thursday so it may be good to call ahead to check. The person helping me was friendly. At $ 6 it was a little pricey for a small round of bread, but when we used it the results were superb…
I was there for the (sourdough) rye bread, but I might return to try their regular French Sourdough, or perhaps the Asiago Sourdough which sounds good…
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I just learned that not every Claro’s carries all of Rustic Loafs breads, best to call ahead to see what they carry; since they make deliveries every week, you can special order and tell them to bring it during the next delivery. Same for Wolfe’s Market and Cheese Cave, et al…

I chanced upon The Rustic Loaf when I visited the SoCo Farmers Market a while back. They were giving out some samples and of course, we bought some.
I still go back from time to time to buy bread from them and usually the olive bread is our choice, although I’ve also had the rosemary, regular, rye, asiago and the jalapeño. My all time favorite is the walnut one with cranberries I think. That one works really well with a charcuterie platter.
The bread is crusty on the outside and light on the inside — just the way I love my artisan breads.
If you are ever at the SoCo Farmers Market, check them out. The bread sells out pretty fast so get there early!