Denver's A-List Restaurants' Bakery Grateful Bread On The Rise

While many great businesses come from humble beginnings, few can lay claim to origins quite so humble as the 400-square-feet, refrigerator-less cabin where Grateful Bread, the bakery to many of Denver’s A-list restaurants, came to fruition.

It was to this spot in Evergreen that Jeff Cleary retreated in 2005 after selling the last of the four restaurants that he’d operated over the previous eight years, all of which had a bakery component to them.

And it was here that he worked 361 days during his first year in business to create the breads used by chefs such as Frank Bonanno and Alex Seidel, leaving the windows open in the winter to keep everything cold.

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