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Copper Kettle Bakery

About Copper Kettle

Two bakers, one stone oven, and a building nobody wanted.

Nora and Wes Calloway have been feeding Larkspur out of a folding table at the Saturday market since spring. Two hundred loaves, sold out by nine, every single week. That is the whole business plan, honestly. People kept asking where the shop was.

Nora came up through restaurant kitchens and spent eleven years starting her day at three in the morning. Wes ran the front of house and did the math that finally made this possible. Between them they have one rule: bake less, bake it better, and stop when it is gone.

Tell me when you open
Hands kneading bread dough on a floured wooden counter
Front room of the bakery with tall arched windows and copper pendant lamps

The building

123 Main Street, since 1911.

It was a hardware store for most of a century, then a carpet showroom, then nothing at all for six years. When we pulled the false wall down we found three arched windows looking straight onto the square, and a pressed tin ceiling under two coats of beige.

  • Twelve hundred square feet, eight seats at the counter
  • A four deck stone oven in full view of the room
  • The original walnut counter, stripped back by hand
  • Street parking out front, the lot behind the square after 9 AM

The timeline

From an empty room to bread at 7 AM.

Months are placeholders. Swap them for your real dates as they firm up.

  1. Step 1 · October

    We signed the lease

    Twelve hundred square feet on Main Street, empty since the hardware store closed. Tin ceiling still up there under two coats of paint.

  2. Step 2 · January

    Build out started

    Floors up, plumbing in, the old front counter saved and stripped back to the walnut underneath.

  3. Step 3 · March

    The oven arrives

    A four deck stone oven, craned in through the front window. Test bakes start the week it is wired.

  4. Step 4 · Spring

    Doors open

    Bread at 7 AM, pastry right behind it, coffee going all morning. Come say hello.

Where we will be

On the square in Larkspur.

Close enough to walk to from most of town. These are the places our market customers come from, and where the delivery run will start.

  • Larkspur
  • Bell Creek
  • Ridgeview
  • Old Mill

Planned hours

Tue-Fri
7:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Sat
7:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Sun
8:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Closed Mondays. Nothing is open until opening day.