It's What Community Tastes Like.

A Neighborhood Bakery & Kitchen Making Food from Scratch

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It's What Community Tastes Like.

Whether you're starting your morning with a handcrafted Costa Rican pour-over coffee, grabbing lunch on our scratch-made bread, picking up an after-school treat, taking home Dinner Club, stopping in for a refreshing cold drink, or packing up for your next Pacific Northwest adventure, we're honored to be a small part of your story.

From everyday moments to life's biggest celebrations, we're here to bring people together with food made with care, warm hospitality, and the simple joy of sharing something delicious.

 

How Sweet Dahlia Began

Sweet Dahlia started as a wholesale bakery in 2016. In March of 2017, we opened our first retail bakery on Bainbridge Island.

What began as a small bakery has grown over the years — but we've grown a little differently than we ever imagined.

Today you'll find Sweet Dahlia at our Bainbridge Island bakery, our kitchen and counter on Callow Avenue in Bremerton, and our food truck inside PSNS. We also prepare our weekly Dinner Club meals and cater gatherings throughout our community.

Through all that growth, the idea behind Sweet Dahlia has stayed remarkably simple:

Make really good food from scratch and take good care of people.

 

Meet Chef Chris

There's a lot of experience behind the food coming out of the Sweet Dahlia kitchen.

Chris is our Executive Chef and leads our culinary and bakery programs. Long before Sweet Dahlia, he spent several years as a pastry chef at a large Lake Tahoe ski resort before spending nearly a decade as a sous chef with Paula LeDuc Fine Catering in the San Francisco Bay Area.

During those years, Chris cooked for everything from intimate gatherings to weddings and events with thousands of guests. He had opportunities to work alongside culinary legends including Julia Child, Alice Waters and Jeremiah Tower.

He also collected some pretty wonderful stories along the way.

Chris has cooked at Skywalker Ranch for George Lucas and his family, catered a wedding for Geena Davis, and prepared food for musicians ranging from Lou Rawls to Metallica.

You'd probably never know any of this from talking to him.

Chris is much more interested in making good food than telling you who he's cooked for.

But that experience is part of what makes Sweet Dahlia what it is today. It's why our kitchen can move comfortably from beautiful pastries and scratch-made breads to comfort food, international dishes, Dinner Club, sandwiches and catering.

 

And Then There's Stacey

While Chris leads the kitchen, Stacey handles the business side of Sweet Dahlia — although, like most small-business owners, "business side" has come to mean a little bit of everything.

Before Sweet Dahlia, Stacey worked as a counselor and was board certified in biofeedback, specializing in stress management and peak-performance training. She also managed private practices and worked with business systems and software.

Food took on another dimension for our family when our daughter India had to eliminate dairy, wheat and soy when she was young. That plunged us into the world of alternative cooking and taught us a tremendous amount about preparing food for people with different dietary needs.

Those experiences eventually became part of the way we cook and think about food at Sweet Dahlia.

 

A Family Business That Grew a Little Bigger

Our children grew up with Sweet Dahlia — packaging products, working farmers markets, washing dishes and learning the ropes wherever they were interested.

Today, Xel runs our Bremerton counter.

But Sweet Dahlia has grown well beyond just our family.

We have an incredible team of bakers, cooks and front-of-house staff working across our kitchen, bakery, counter and food truck. They're a huge part of what makes Sweet Dahlia work, and we're proud to have them representing us every day.

 

Kitsap Is Home

We love Washington and are proud to call Kitsap County home.

We source locally whenever possible, support our local food banks, and contribute food and resources to organizations and programs serving our community.

And despite how much Sweet Dahlia has grown, we still believe in a somewhat old-fashioned approach to customer service.

We want to know our customers. We want you to feel comfortable walking through the door. And we want to make the kind of food you're excited to take home and share with the people you love.

 

It's What Community Tastes Like.

 

Thanks for letting us be part of yours.

Chris & Stacey

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