Where the listings come from
Business names, addresses, phone numbers and websites start from open geodata: the Overture Maps Foundation places dataset, which includes Foursquare OS Places and OpenStreetMap contributions. We keep bakeries, cupcake and cake shops, patisseries and panaderías that sell baked goods from their own storefront — including shops that bake to order; donut shops, bagel shops, supermarket bakery counters, mall kiosks, wholesale bakeries and outlet stores are not listed here. We remove duplicates (the same name and street in the same city) and drop businesses that are reported closed or that asked to be removed.
A city gets its own page when it has at least two bakeries; towns with a single listing appear on their state page, so no page is built around one business.
What a listing shows
95% of listings have a phone number and 64% link to the business's own website. Opening hours appear only where the business or its owner has published them. We do not show ratings or reviews, and we do not copy text from other directories.
How features are marked
Cupcakes, cakes, panaderías, French, Asian and other styles are marked from the shop’s name and business category or when the bakery’s own website names them; custom cakes, Sunday hours and early opening are marked only from the bakery’s own website — we read the site text with fixed word rules and check samples by hand. A bakery without such words is left unmarked rather than guessed. Gluten-free and vegan labels mean the shop says so about its menu, not that it is free of cross-contact. These marks are applied by software — name rules, wording rules run over each business's own website, and an AI model that reads that website — not written by hand. A mark from a website is kept only when the wording is found on the page, so a business without a mark may still offer the service — call to check.
Feature pages today: Cupcake Shops (3,733) · Cake Shops (5,336) · Custom Cake Bakeries (2,983) · Panaderías — Mexican & Latin Bakeries (1,248) · French Bakeries & Patisseries (1,554) · Cookie Shops (4,764) · Bread & Sourdough Bakeries (2,798) · Asian Bakeries (612) · Kolache Bakeries (237) · Gluten-Free Bakeries (1,548) · Italian Bakeries (800) · Bakeries Open on Sunday (0) · Bakeries That Open Early (0).
Corrections from owners
Owners can correct their listing for free — new hours, a changed phone number, a moved address, services they offer. Corrections are applied and the listing is marked "Updated by the owner" with the month. Owners can also ask for a listing to be removed, and the removal is permanent. Write to contact@bakeryatlas.com.
How lists are ordered
Top 10 lists and the order of each city page follow how complete a listing is — website, phone, hours, services — and whether the owner has checked it. No business can pay for a position.
How often it is updated
The directory is rebuilt from the current data every night, so owner corrections usually appear within a day. The underlying geodata is refreshed from new Overture releases.