Liguria Bakery San Francisco

Liguria Bakery

This San Francisco landmark, opened in 1911, makes focaccia, and only focaccia. Period. No pasta, no pastries, no nonsense. Only focaccia, period. . It's a long standing family run business in the North Beach neighborhood. They make their Focaccia bread by hand daily, like they have since the day they opened. Get here early (before noon) or there won't be much left to buy. They are almost always sold out before their closing time of two o'clock – or whenever they feel like closing.

The original storefront is still in place, including the old phone exchange painted on the window. The storefront is so non-descript and you might pass it if you didn’t know what you were looking for. Inside, you should expect a couple

of cantankerous ladies talking about the people they know (AKA gossip) wrapping your focaccia bread with simple white paper and string. When you buy some, you will be made to feel “lucky” just to get some….but frankly, if luck tastes like this; I am very cool with it.

There are only seven choices of focaccia on the simple sign and they don’t tell you they are sold out until you select what you want. Oh and it’s a cash only. Don’t even think of pulling out some plastic.


Simple. Classic. Delish.

Liguria Bakery
1700 Stockton Street @Filbert St on Washington Square Park - San Francisco, CA 94133
Hours: Monday-Friday, 8am-2pm Saturday, 7am-2pm Sunday, 7am-noon