Winter closure announcement
Hello friends!
Tinder Hearth will be fully closed for two weeks in February, and then partially closed for the month of March. Read on for all the details!
The Tinder Hearth cafe and restaurant will be closed for 6 weeks starting on February 16th. Everyone needs a bit of respite, a chance to do some travel or study, and there are some rather large projects to tackle in the bakery (new dish pit??!!).
So the week of February 9th (hello Valentine’s Day) will be our final week open for a bit! Come see us before the closure! (Valentine’s Day reservations will open on Monday Feb 9th as per usual.)
After being entirely closed for two weeks, the wholesale bakery portion of Tinder Hearth will start up again on March 4th and provide bread and pastries by delivery out to our store accounts, as well as through preorders here at Tinder Hearth and through Farm Drop. The barn will remain closed through the month of March. Preorder pickup will take place in the bakery kitchen, and we may have a few extra loaves & croissants for sale on the rack if you are stopping by.
The Tinder Hearth cafe and restaurant will reopen on April 1st, with the same schedule as we have held for this winter: Bakery Cafe Wednesday mornings, Pizza Friday and Saturday evenings, and Brunch on Saturday mornings.
May we see you soon, and your fires burn bright—
Lydia & Tim
Timmy at the dough mixer circa 2018 photo by Emily Delamater
Bakery Closure Schedule & Menus for Week of Feb 2nd
Happy Imbolc, happy Ground Hog’s Day, happy Super Bowl week to those who celebrate. Sending big love to everyone in this midwinter moment, may the sun’s return bring us moments of grace in this time of tumult.
This week at Tinder Hearth we will be open on Wednesday and Saturday mornings for the bakery cafe & brunch, but will be CLOSED FOR PIZZA because the team to heading down to the Camden Snowbowl on Friday, Saturday & Sunday to make pizzas out of our mobile oven for the US National Toboggan Championships!! More information on that below.
Check out these menus, then continue reading below to hear about our planned winter closure.
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Looking to the future— our cafe and restaurant will be closed for 6 weeks starting on February 16th. Everyone needs a bit of respite, a chance to do some travel or study, and there are some rather large projects to tackle in the bakery (new dish pit??!!).
So the week of February 9th (hello Valentine’s Day) will be our final week open for a bit! Come see us before the closure! (Valentine’s Day reservations will open on Monday Feb 9th as per usual.)
After being entirely closed for two weeks, the wholesale bakery portion of Tinder Hearth will start up again on March 4th and provide bread and pastries by delivery out to our store accounts, as well as through preorders here at Tinder Hearth and through Farm Drop. The barn will remain closed through the month of March. Preorder pickup will take place in the bakery itself, and we may have a few extra loaves & croissants on the rack if you are stopping by.
The cafe and restaurant will reopen on April 1st, with the same schedule as we have held for this winter: Bakery Cafe Wednesday mornings, Pizza Friday and Saturday evenings, and Brunch on Saturday mornings.
May we see you soon, and your fires burn bright—
Lydia & Tim
menus week of Dec 29th
New Year, here we come! The bakery is closed until January 1st — we’re cooking up a special New Year’s Day brunch. Reservations are required for this brunch. We’re back with our usual winter schedule starting on Friday January 2nd!
Holiday Specials & Schedule
The ice has been slick for skating and the lights in everyone’s windows are twinkling — thank you all for being here and helping to make this time of year sweet. Difficulty, darkness, and uncertainty abound, but being here with you is a gift. Thank you.
Tinder Hearth is up to all kinds of things over the next couple of weeks, as well as taking a bit of time off, so here is a little run down for anyone who would like to know!
FIRSTLY — We will be entirely CLOSED Dec 24th-31st. Plan accordingly! Stick some bread in your freezer! Come to pizza tomorrow!
SECONDLY — We are leaving our bakery preorder website open until 8PM tonight for orders for pick up on Saturday! Order up! Orders for pick up on TUESDAY Dec 23rd are also open right now, and will be open until 8PM on Sunday— just choose your date when selecting an item. Some specials are available for both days, others are only one or the other.
We have some very special items that we are making for the holidays — a holiday cookie box (with Ginger Molasses Rye Cookies, Salted Oat Thumbprint Cookies filled with last summer’s roasted Maine strawberries, Vanilla and Chocolate Butter Cookies with Orange Glaze, Rosemary Shortbread, and Bittersweet Chocolate Raspberry Truffles), yuletide buns (6 pack of soft buns with candied ginger, currants, cherries and holiday spices with a crackly sugar glaze on top. Packaged in a tin for easy reheating), and on Saturday a whole wheat chocolate cherry loaf, and on Tuesday an anadama loaf.
Preorder bread and pastry here.
Tuesday the 23rd will be out LAST BAKE OF 2025, and we will be baking for preorders and for the shelves out at our store locations only. The cafe will not be open that day.
THIRDLY - we are making pizza this weekend—Friday and Saturday nights, 4:30-8:00 PM—and the menu is wonderful, and there are lots of seats open for both nights still! Grab reservations here or just call us the night of—I bet we’ll have space for you! LAST PIZZA OF 2025!
FOURTHLY — brunch this Saturday, 9AM-12PM is extremely holiday-festive and full of tremendously exciting locally-sourced items! We don’t accept reservations for our normal brunches—it’s counter-service seat-yourself. So come on down!
FIFTHLY — are you still with me? We’re making it along the timeline here… after we are closed for a week (ORDER YOUR BREAD TO STOCK UP, TRUST ME) we will be REOPENING with a special NEW YEAR’S DAY BRUNCH that is reservation only. Those reservations are up on our Tock website — but I think it’s fairly well booked already, gasp! The thing is, we will also be hosting brunch two days later, on January 3rd! And that will be big and bodacious, but it’s open to everyone, no reservations as per usual. So if you’re not able to score a table for the 1st, come see us on the 3rd!
Saturday Jan 3rd will also be the day that we’re back at it with our regular bread and pastry! And we’ll be baking pizza again on Friday the 2nd and Saturday the 3rd.
We hope to see you soon. Much love to you and yours, may your hearths be warm, and your hearts warmer.
Lydia and Tim, and the crew at Tinder Hearth
Menus week of December 8th
We’ve got some GORGEOUS menus this week — so much cross-collaboration from across our pizza, bread, and pastry teams. We’re continuing to trial items for our holiday specials (cookie box, more details to come!) as well as some extra fun pizzas this week. Come see us!
Menus week of Nov 24
Do you need bread? Preorder on our sales website here to pick up fresh loaves on Wednesday here in Brooksville. Or find it out at the stores this week — we’ll be making deliveries on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Our schedule is narrowed this week for focus around the holiday. We will be open for Wednesday cafe (and preorder pickup!) 9AM-noon, and for pizza on Saturday evening 4:30-8:00. No Friday pizza, no Saturday brunch, no Saturday bread/pastry bake and delivery. So get enough bread Wednesday to tide you over!
Thanksgiving Plans & Saturday Pizza!
Hello friends!
The light these days is slanting through windows that usually don’t get lit up, and we’re having fun over here coming up with the most scrumptious things we can think of! I’ve got two announcements to offer today: 1) Our Thanksgiving week schedule along with special baked items and how to preorder, and 2) to officially announce the launch of SATURDAY NIGHT PIZZA!
To take the second item first: Out of desire to provide more winter hours for our staff, and a weekend night for y’all to more easily get over here, we are RELAUNCHING SATURDAY NIGHT PIZZA! I don't think we’ve regularly made pizza on Saturdays since… sometime before Kieran was born? He’s 11 now…. Hah! So if Friday night pizza in the winter rarely or never fits into your schedule, I hope you can come on Saturday!! Reservations for this week are currently live here, and you can see this week’s menu here. The winter pizza scene in the bakery is super special, just btw <3 <3 <3
On to the next topic: THANKSGIVING SCHEDULE & BREAD
We will be baking on Tuesday and Wednesday next week prior to Thanksgiving Day (details below), and then the morning bakery cafe and production will be closed Saturday the 29th. We WILL be making PIZZA one day only next week: Saturday the 29th.
THE PIZZA We will be completely closed on Friday the 28th next week, but we will be baking pizza on Saturday the 29th 4:30-8:00PM. Take-out is of course available too, if you want to bring pizza home to yours. Reservations will open on Monday morning at 9AM as per usual, and we will be available by phone starting Tuesday morning next week, for placing take out orders and answering any questions. We will be completely closed on THURSDAY & FRIDAY—so if you need to get in touch that part of the week, send us an email. No one will be tending to the phone those two days.
THE BREAD We will be baking back to back on Tuesday & Wednesday next week! The bake on Tuesday the 25th will be for wholesale delivery only. This will be our typical loaves, available at most of our store locations. Deer Isle and Blue Hill Wine Shop are the exceptions—we will be delivering to these two shops on Wednesday the 26th!
On Wednesday the 26th, we will be baking HOLIDAY SPECIALS along with all of our regular bakery & cafe offerings, available here at the bakery 9AM-12PM. The special loaves will be available here at the bakery in Brooksville only, on Wednesday only. If there are loaves & pastries of any kind that you really want that day, we strongly recommend PREORDERING! Our online sales website will open on Sunday Nov 23rd at 9AM for preorders for pick up on Wednesday, as per usual. If you are not familiar with our preorder website, you can find it here. Take a look! <3
The holiday specials on 11/26 will be:
Potato Dinner Rolls (6/pk)
POLENTA PUMPKIN SEED HERB BREAD
The rolls are so good, I don’t know how to express this!! Smooshy, buttery, hint of rosemary with creamy organic white flour from Quebec and a touch of sifted whole wheat from Maine. We have been feasting on the test batches. They will be packaged in foil pans by the half dozen, so you can easily heat them for your meal. And the polenta pumpkin seed herb is our traditional perennial favorite! Snag yours by preordering on Sunday. Got questions about holiday preorders? Email us at tinderhearth@gmail.com
Our regular winter schedule will resume on Dec 3rd: Bakery Cafe on Wednesdays and Saturdays, 9:00-12:00, and Pizza on Fridays and Saturdays, 4:30-8:00.
With love-
Lydia & the TH team
Menus week of November 3rd
Pizza night on Friday only this week! Not quite ready to take on Saturdays ;) take a look at these beautiful menus and come visit us!
Week of October 20 Menus
MUSIC SATURDAY EVENING
Los Juglares in concert! With pizza pockets and drinks.
Tickets and information here
Four Events at Tinder Hearth this Autumn
The bakery is getting set to reopen, and we are SO SO excited to host four events over the next month! Tickets and more info for the events are available here
LOS JUGLARES October 25th
A quartet of vocalists and guitarists from the Yucatan who specialize in Yucatecan trova with a contemporary fusion enriched with influences from bolero and traditional Latin American music. Their sound is characterized by exquisite vocal harmonies and masterful instrumental execution.
Halloween Fundraiser for Grahman Platner Nov 1st
Unfortunately this event at Tinder Hearth is SOLD OUT
Graham will also be in Brooksville on October 17th at the community center—RSVP for this seperate event at the campaign’s website
Palaver String’s Port City, ft Heyni Solera Nov 6th
Palaver String's Port City show explores tango music throughout the genre’s history, and features bandoneon visionary Heyni Solera as soloist and composer. Palaver will perform danceable classics alongside contemporary tango-inspired compositions.
This performance will celebrate tango’s ongoing evolution and the powerful interplay between music and dance, as well as how the genre is being reclaimed by marginalized identities, especially women and queer artists.
Ryan Blotnick Quartet Nov 15th
Tinder Hearth is so excited to host dear friend and frequent collaborator Ryan Blotnick for an evening of original compositions and improvositions with his quartet.
Guitarist and composer Ryan Blotnick has long balanced a searching intelligence with a natural lyricism, whether navigating open improvisation, writing for film, or sculpting finely wrought original tunes. His quartet-featuring Tyler Wood on keyboards, Adam Chilenski on bass, and Otto Hauser on drums-extends that sensibility into a collective conversation that's as fluid as it is grounded. Their music, spacious yet deeply rooted, thrives on close listening and collective interplay.
