Design concept by Owner's Copy, not a real business.

Larkspur Request catering

LarkspurBakery

Breads, pastries, cakes to order and good coffee, baked each morning on Cardinal Lane in Virginia Beach.

Shop open Tuesday to Sunday from seven Market stand on Saturdays

Request catering Hours and directions

This week's bake sheet

Every loaf and pastry on the menu comes out daily. These are the extras we bake on one day only, so plan your week around them.

Tuesday is rye day

  • Seeded rye with caraway and sunflower, the dense one for butter and smoked fish.
  • Danish rye for open sandwiches, baked in the tin.
  • Rye and chocolate cookie, warm until about ten.

Wednesday, cardamom

  • Cardamom knots, twisted by hand and glazed while hot.
  • Cardamom and orange bun with pearl sugar.
  • Spelt loaf, soft crumb, good for toast.

Thursday, focaccia and savoury

  • Rosemary and sea salt focaccia by the square.
  • Tomato and olive focaccia while the tomatoes are good.
  • Cheddar and chive scones from the first bake.

Friday, challah and the weekend loaves

  • Challah, plain or with poppy seed, braided in the morning.
  • Brioche loaf for Saturday French toast.
  • Fruit danish with whatever the orchard sends.

Saturday, market day

  • Kouign-amann, caramelised and only on Saturdays.
  • Market loaves: country, seeded and the big miche, cut to order at the stand.
  • Morning buns at the stand from eight, at the shop from seven.

Sunday, cinnamon rolls

  • Cinnamon rolls with cream cheese icing, trays out from eight.
  • Sticky buns with pecans.
  • Sourdough English muffins to take home for the week.

Monday, the ovens rest

  • The shop is closed on Mondays. We mix the week's levain, scrub the benches and answer catering requests.
  • Back on Tuesday at seven with rye.

A note from the bench

I opened Larkspur because the neighbourhood had plenty of places to buy bread and nowhere to buy bread that was baked that morning. The first loaves went out of my kitchen window to neighbours on Cardinal Lane; the shop is the old corner laundry two doors down.

Larkspur is the blue flower that grows along the fences here in June. It's on the sign, on the cups and, when the season allows, on the cakes.

We keep the menu short and change it with the week. Flour comes from a mill in the Shenandoah Valley, butter from a dairy across the bay, fruit from whoever at the Saturday market has the best of it.

Come in early for the baguettes, late for the day-old croissants we turn into almond ones, and any time for a cup of coffee at the window.

Nell

owner and head baker

Questions about an order, an allergy or a wholesale account: hello@larkspurbakery.example

Two places to find us

The shop on Cardinal Lane

1412 Cardinal Lane, Virginia Beach, VA 23451

A blue door between the florist and the hardware store, four blocks in from the boardwalk. Street parking on Cardinal; the bike rack is by the window.

Shop hours
Tuesday to Friday7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Saturday7 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Sunday8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
MondayClosed

The Saturday market stand

Holly Grove Commons, the green at Heron Street and Mill Pond Way

April through November, Saturdays from 8 a.m. until noon or until the bread is gone, usually before eleven. Look for the blue awning near the music tent.

Stand hours
Saturday, April to November8 a.m. to noon
RainWe still come

Call 757-555-0142 or text the shop to hold a loaf.

Drawn map of the neighbourhood The shop on Cardinal Lane sits four blocks in from the oceanfront; the market stand is on the green at Holly Grove Commons to the north-west. Larkspur Bakery 1412 Cardinal Lane Holly Grove Commons, market on Saturdays Atlantic Avenue the oceanfront Cardinal Lane Pelican Street Heron Street the pond N
Not to scale. The streets and the commons are part of the story we're telling here, drawn for this concept.

Feed a room from the bakery

Pastry boxes for a morning meeting, bread baskets for a dinner, a cake for the party. Tell us the day and the number of people and we'll reply with a menu that fits.

  • Pastry and bread boxes for pickup from seven
  • Delivery within Virginia Beach for larger orders
  • Celebration cakes with a week's notice
  • Coffee service in the blue cups, with the urn
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