Faria Bakery closes restaurant in Historic Folsom after over 2 years in business

Faria Bakery has closed its outpost at the edge of Folsom Historic District, leaving the Sacramento region’s hottest bakery with a single brick-and-mortar storefront.

The bakery at 604 Sutter St. endured a shutdown throughout February that was billed as temporary. But as March began, Faria Bakery Folsom’s Instagram bio was updated to say the closure had become permanent, and its Google listing showed the same.

Faria posted a social media goodbye on Thursday morning, attributing its closure to the rising cost of goods. The bakery already charges $10-$14 for loaves made with spelt oat porridge or miso and brown rice, leaving little room to rise. Self-service kiosks will be installed at Faria’s surviving location in Sacramento’s North Oak Park neighborhood in an effort to lower expenses, the social media post read.

“Despite all of the love and history we share with the city, the numbers just weren’t adding up anymore,” the post read. “Running a small restaurant business is a difficult feat right now. Things that were consistent have changed overnight. Prices for raw ingredients have skyrocketed within an incredulously short amount of time. All we have to say is eggs and you understand.”

Faria will still have a stand at Folsom’s Saturday Farmers Market, where owner Chris Beattie initially began selling naturally-leavened loaves of fougasse and country bread baked at home. Beattie parlayed Faria’s pop-up successes into a brick-and-mortar bakery at 3417 Broadway in North Oak Park’s Broadway Triangle development, then expanded to the Folsom location in September 2022.

Beattie and pastry chef Natalie Quach charmed customers with inventive, superbly executed baked goods such as buckwheat coffee cake and chocolate chip cookies made with Oak Park Brewing grains, as well as a small menu of salads and sandwiches. Maps inside the bakeries traced key ingredients back to Full Belly Farms in the Capay Valley, Twin Peaks Orchards in Newcastle and other local growers.

Beattie opened veggie-focused pizzeria Solimar in September next to the North Oak Park bakery, which may have stretched available capital. He did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.

This story was originally published March 5, 2025 at 3:52 PM.