AUGUST FIRST

Flatbread Fridays

FLATBREAD FRIDAY AT AUGUST FIRST

EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT!

Every Friday night we open the bakery up, push the tables together, and have a big flatbread dinner. 

 For you, it's a fun and easy experience.  Pay one price ($12 adults, $8 kids under 10), and enjoy all of the pizza and salad you'd like.  Our bakers create delicious flatbread pizza with creative toppings like:

Vermont Smoke & Cure Bacon, Broccoli, & Potato (white pizza)

Roasted Squash, Caramelized Onions, Walnuts, Apple, Blue Cheese & Mozzarella (white pizza)

Chicken, Pesto, & Tomato

Mediterranean w/Olives, Feta, Red & Green Peppers, & Red Onion

Bacon Jalapeno

Caramelized Onion, Mushroom & Potato

Classics:  Cheese, Pepperoni

Dessert: Belgian Chocolate & Almond Frangipane Pizza

We have beer on tap and by the bottle, and wine by the glass.

 

Flatbread Fridays: Every Friday Night at August First Bakery

149 S. Champlain St., Burlington Vermont 6-9pm.  802-540-0060

Walk-in seating, no reservations.

Continuous service from 6-9pm, arrive anytime!

 
 

Valentine's Day Treats at the Bakery

Great treats for your sweetie this Valentine's Day!  Our bakers have created delicious TRUFFLES and RASPBERRY BROWNIE BITES.  Fabulous little gift boxes and bags available to grab-and-go at the bakery from Friday, Feb 10-Tuesday, Feb 14th. 

Holiday and Christmas Bakery Treats at August First

HOLIDAY HOURS:

OPEN SAT. 12/24  8am-11am, Breakfast, Coffee, Pastries, Holiday Baked Goods.

CLOSED SUN 12/25 & MON 12/26  Open Tues 12/27 at 7:30am

Christmas Cookies, Stollen, Cranberry Pecan Bread, and Chocolate-Peppermint Whoopie Pies, baked from scratch daily here at August First.  The perfect gift for co-workers, teachers, neighbors and friends.

CHRISTMAS COOKIES

We add a modern touch to heirloom recipes to create the best Christmas cookies ever.  Baked from scratch with only the finest ingredients, and packaged in beautiful gift boxes with bows.    

Russian Tea Cakes, Triple Mint Chocolate, Ginger-Ginger, German Springerle (Anise cookies), and Chocolate Chip Walnut.  

$11 a dozen (2 tea cakes = I cookie) or the August First Gift Box of 36 assorted cookies for $24

Available at the bakery, or pre-order to assure availability.

STOLLEN  -- Authentic Holiday Bread

Our popular Stollen is back!  An authentic yeasted bread loaded with rum-soaked cranberries, apricots, currants, and toasted almonds.  Dusted with powdered sugar.  A real treat!  

Stollen: $14 loaf, available at the bakery, or by pre-ordering

CHOCOLATE PEPPERMINT WHOOPIE PIES

What can we say?  Rich chocolate cakes with a double-mint cream filling. 

$3/ea.  6 for $15  12 for $29  Available at the bakery, or pre-order.

 

Thanksgiving Bakery Orders

Place your order for Thankgiving treats from the bakery!  August First has 7Grain Rolls, Sourdough Rolls, Apple Galettes (small and large), Pumpkin Roll, Pumpkin Ginger Whoopie Pies,  Cranberry Pecan Bread, and Cookies.  

Call 540-0060, fax 802-881-0185, or stop by the bakery to place your order.   Order by 4pm on Friday, Nov. 21st for pick up on Monday, Tuesday, or Wed. before Thanksgiving.  Pick up hours are 8-5 Monday, 8-5 Tuesday, and 8-11am on Wednesday.

Please Click HERE for a Printable Order Form

Pumpkin Week

MONDAY OCT. 31-SAT. NOV 5

 Join us for delicious pumpkin specials all week long!  Our bakers are baking up fabulous fall treats, including PUMPKIN GINGER WHOOPIE PIES, PUMPKIN-CHOCOLATE CHIP SCONES, PUMPKIN ROLLS, PUMPKIN SPICE BREAD, and PUMPKIN BISQUE.

 

Salon Series at August First

 

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 7:00 PM

Performer Rusty DeWees
Interviewed by Bess O’Brien
Rusty DeWees is Vermont’s gem of an entertainer, comedian, actor and performer.  Rusty has been performing his One Man Comedy Show “The Logger” for 15 years to sold out houses throughout New England and has appeared in more than 25 films. Join us for a rollicking and intimate look at how Rusty crafts VT stories and film characters.
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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 3 at 7:00 PM

Writer Katherine Paterson
Interviewed by Bess O’Brien
Katherine Paterson is the author of more than 30 books including16 novels for children and young people. She has twice won the Newbery Medal, for Bridge to Terabithia in 1978 and Jacob Have I Loved in 1981. She is the winner of two National Book Awards. Her novel, The Day of the Pelican was the Vermont Reads selection for 2010. Learn about how Katherine develops character and story and what it was like to have one of her books adapted into a Hollywood movie.
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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 10 at 7:00 PM

Writer Howard Frank Mosher
Interviewed by Jay Craven
Using ironic humor, complex characterization, and surprising dramatic twists, Howard Mosher has written 10 novels that invite readers into his magical world of Kingdom County, Vermont. (Sneak Preview! Howard will read from his new story, Nights of Temperance.) Filmmaker Jay Craven has adapted four Mosher stories and is about to take on another–Northern Borders. Tune in to go behind the scenes.
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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 17 at 7:00 PM
Journalist Jane Lindholm
Interviewed by Jay Craven
Vermont native Jane Lindholm returned home after stints at public radio’s Talk of the Nation, Weekend Edition, and Marketplace. At VPR, she has developed Vermont Edition into a probing and revealing radio journal that connects and informs listeners throughout the region. Join us as we interview the interviewer.
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Eat Local Week Burlington VT 2011

Celebrate local Vermont Apples from Oct. 1-9 during the annual Vermont Eat Local Week.  We'll have many delicious treats featuring Vermont's favorite fruit!

• Saturday, October 1: Apple Galettes (ALL WEEK!)
• Monday, October 3: Grilled Cheese with Cabot Cheddar and Apples
• Tuesday, October 4: Apple Scones
• Wednesday, October 5: Apple Coffee Cake
• Thursday, October 6: Butternut Squash & Apple Bisque
• Friday, October 7: Special Flatbread pizzas with apples:  Bacon, Apples & VT Cheddar; Sweet Potatoes, Blue Cheese, Walnuts & Apples,  Ham, Sweet Potato, Blue Cheese, Walnuts and Apples;  Apples & VT Cheddar; and for dessert, Apples & Almond Frangipane; Apples and Belgian Chocolate  (6-9pm, $12 per person, all you can eat, includes salad)

 

 

Summer 2011...The Bread Bike Returns!

There's something just gorgeous about the first days of summer in Vermont.  As much as we all love winter, we love the natural, spontaneous celebration that comes with the embrace of summer's warmth. Here at the bakery, we mark the beginning of the season with a few different mini-celebrations of our own.  The first time the big garage doors are lifted up, and the first ride of the bread bike.

The Bread Bike is having a great season so far!  Gabi and Jens, our faithful riders, cover most of the city on their Monday-Friday routes.  We started a new baguette bake schedule so that freshly baked bread is coming out of the oven around 3pm, just in time for delivery by bike.  For anyone not familiar with our bread bikes, they're just like an ice cream truck, but with bread and a bike!  You hear a sing-song, "BREAD FOR SAAAAALE!"  and the ring of a bell, look out your door, and there's the bike, loaded with freshly baked bread, pastries and cookies.  It's a lot of fun for the riders, and a great joy to the people who get delicious bread at their door.

So have a great summer, everyone!  

7Grain Delivered!

We're thrilled to introduce our newest way to get delicious, all-natural bread to our neighbors and friends. Freshly baked 7 Grain bread is now available for delivery to local businesses!  We know how hard it is to find the time to keep fresh bread in your house, and trips to the bakery don't always fit into your busy schedule.  So, we're bringing it to you.  

Our first delivery will start in July, in 12 week cycles. The minimum order is 25 loaves per workplace.  That includes weekly delivery to the greater Burlington area.

For all of the details, for answered questions, and to get started, contact Jodi Whalen at jodi@augustfirstvt.com or 802-578-7477. 

For a printable information sheet, click HERE

August First Bakery, Burlington Vermont

 
Welcome to August First.  We're a locally owned restaurant, bakery, and cafe in downtown Burlington, Vermont.  Our bakery is in a renovated garage, filled with lots of sunlight and warmth.  We start our day with coffee, latte, and espresso, and have a great selection of breakfast sandwiches on our own bread, as well as amazing pastries.  Lunch time means healthy and delicious food -- salads, sandwiches, and soups made from the finest ingredients.  We have great afternoon treats --- brownies, cookies, and other sweets.  And we're open every Friday night for All-You-Can-Eat Flatbread Pizza. 

 

Every morning, our bakers create amazing European-style hearth-baked organic breads.  We only use organic flour, water, starter/yeast, and salt.  No sweetners, all natural!  Choose from Baguette, Country French Sourdough, Seven Grain, Whole Wheat (Whole Grain), Kalamata Olive, Jalapeno Cheddar, and other specialties.

We bake fabulous pastries every morning, too, and focus on traditional, heirloom recipes.  Our bakery specialty is the Hungarian Sweet Roll, which is a classic pastry dough wrapped around a sweet walnut meringue.  We also make them with a delightful Apricot-Almond filling.  

 
Our other pastries and sweets include scones, cinnamon rolls, seasonal tarts, brownies, macaroons, and cookies. 

Lunch starts at 11am, and we offer a great selection of delicious sandwiches, soups, and salads created with a focus on fresh, high-quality ingredients.  See our menu here!

 

BLT on a Baguette

Curried Chicken Salad Sandwich

Hungarian Rolls

 

Our Hungarian Rolls have quickly become a customer favorite here at the bakery.  We love how they're their own little beings... not a croissant, not a overly sweet pastry, just a perfect little treat for either the morning or afternoon.  

The dough is made with organic flour, Vermont butter & eggs, and sour cream.  We roll them with a deeelightful filling made with oven-toasted walnuts and a sweet meringue, which, when baked, creates a sweet, soft filling and little magical spots where the meringue bakes out and becomes crunchy.   Our honey-apricot version is filled with a sweet local honey, toasted almond, and apricot filling.