Best store-bought sourdough

[Anonymous]

Please share your recommendation for your favorite sourdough loaf in or around Northwest DC or Bethesda. After years of making my own, I’m now spending too much time away from my house to make this work and I’m hoping for a decent store-bought alternative.

[Anonymous]

I like Costco's version but you have about three days to eat it.

[Anonymous]

The Bread Alley sourdough is great but you have to get there early unfortunately. I've rarely seen it in stock after around noon.

[Anonymous]

I like Giant’s sourdough. DD prefers the Whole food’s one.

There are also bakeries around Bethesda / NW but I just don’t have the time to do special runs for bread.

[Anonymous]

I’m not sure but can you make a few loaves and freeze them? Anything you make will be much better than store.

[Anonymous]

Bread Furst in Van Ness

[Anonymous]

Wegmans Rosemary Sourdough - it's great all year, but a necessity when I make stuffing/dressing for Thanksgiving

[Anonymous]

Wegmans is good.

[Anonymous]

Manifest in Riverdale is outstanding. The top restaurants get their bread from this place. The bakery grinds their own flours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wegmans Rosemary Sourdough - it's great all year, but a necessity when I make stuffing/dressing for Thanksgiving

Yes love the Wegmans one, they even have one made with whole wheat flour

[Anonymous]

I just buy sliced at Trader Joe's, and keep it in the freezer. Toast as it's going to be used.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like Giant’s sourdough. DD prefers the Whole food’s one.

There are also bakeries around Bethesda / NW but I just don’t have the time to do special runs for bread.

I love good bread, and have been surprised at how good the WF sourdough is. I also used to like a kind sold at Giant, not Giant brand, it was in the deli section, but they haven’t had it for several years (I find the Giant bakery breads to be terrible - and don’t get me started why none of Giant, WF or Wegmans makes/sells good sandwich rolls).

[Anonymous]

The famous La Brea bread at Harris Teeter - outrageously good.

[Anonymous]

A lot of those aren't real sourdough. They have too many ingredients.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I like Giant’s sourdough. DD prefers the Whole food’s one.

There are also bakeries around Bethesda / NW but I just don’t have the time to do special runs for bread.

I love good bread, and have been surprised at how good the WF sourdough is. I also used to like a kind sold at Giant, not Giant brand, it was in the deli section, but they haven’t had it for several years (I find the Giant bakery breads to be terrible - and don’t get me started why none of Giant, WF or Wegmans makes/sells good sandwich rolls).

Must be store-specific. I get Giant sourdough in the deli regularly.