Cannon Beach Bakery

Curiosity about "Haystack" bread overcame my fear:) of tourists today so I walked downtown to check out.Cannon Beach Bakery; they are  evidently known for their "Haystack" bread (made entirely of bread flour). They also bake 8-grain and sourdough bread but these latter breads are sliced unless one calls ahead to reserve (seems odd to me but maybe it is more efficient to slice all the loafs at one time; plus I suspect most tourists want slice bread to make sandwiches). Sliced bread dries out quickly and besides, I love to tear my bread; I compromised and bought one of their last unsliced loafs of Haystack bread ($5.50 - good price).

In addition to breads and many sweets, they also make sandwiches ($9.50); I ordered a veggie delight (without the cream cheese; includes onions, tomatoes, avocado, Eng. duke, and lettuce) on 8-grain bread - very good; the bread had good texture, was moist, and tasted good. Surprisingly, they only had mayo or mustard for toppings; no vinegar and/or oil; maybe its a regional thing or maybe I'm just weird but I prefer a mix of vinegar and oil on sandwiches:)

The Haystack bread was good; light and fluffy as one would expect. Forgot to ask  but it looks like a loaf of no-knead bread. Understand why this bread is popular with tourists but I prefer multi-grain or sourdough to white bread.

Veggie delight sandwich

Haystack bread

Chunk torn off; note the air pockets.