Your daily destination for exceptional breads, pastries, and ready-to-heat meals.
Wed-Fri 9-6
Sat-Sun 8-4
Phone: (519) 687-2377
Email: benjamin@ironkettlebb.com
Born from the beloved Iron Kettle B&B during the challenges of 2020, our commissary emerged as a testament to culinary resilience and creativity in the heart of Comber. What began as artisanal baking from our historic 1876 home has blossomed into a destination-worthy bakery and café, where time-honoured recipes meet contemporary craftsmanship in every fresh-baked offering.
At Iron Kettle, excellence isn’t something we aspire to—it’s something we practice daily through our commitment to small-batch production and artisanal techniques. Every morning begins with purpose as we carefully craft our limited selection of breads, pastries, and ready-to-heat meals, ensuring each item that leaves our kitchen tells the story of our dedication to quality.
Every item is crafted in limited quantities to ensure perfect results, maintaining our high standards of quality and attention to detail.
Our time-honored methods blend traditional European baking with modern innovation.
Each morning brings a new selection of freshly baked goods and ready-to-heat meals, available until sold out.
Our signature house blend, perfectly roasted and brewed for a rich, balanced cup.
Smooth espresso diluted with hot water, delivering bold flavor with clean finish.
A perfectly pulled shot featuring rich crema and intense flavor notes.
Equal parts espresso, steamed milk, and silky foam create this classic Italian comfort.
A curated selection of premium loose-leaf teas, steeped to perfection.
Your choice of premium tea blended with steamed milk for a comforting experience.
Smooth espresso layered with steamed milk and topped with a delicate foam.
Our signature latte infused with premium vanilla, creating a subtly sweet indulgence.
Rich espresso and steamed milk blended with decadent Nutella for a heavenly treat.
We’re proud to partner with respected local establishments who share our commitment to quality. Find our fresh-baked goods at Mercato Fresh, where we deliver our artisanal products daily for your convenience.
A little IK Behind the Scenes to let you see how hard we work to make it all happen.
Wait until you see the butter trick.
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I want to take a moment to thank you all for supporting us. Your purchases, your messages, you follows and your comments help us - not only to pay our staff and our bills, but helps us stay motivated & creative.
We thought this week - with kids back to school that we would be slower - but it wasn’t the case whatsoever. We built this space, and run this business from the ground up. My proudest accomplishment is: how none of this was started elsewhere. There is no corporate back office to help us, there are no company training manuals. Not only our recipes, but our processes and every detail that go along with it. We choose the drinks we make, the size we want, what we source (the beans, the dairy, the cups, the lids) and we make all of our syrups for it. The drinks is just one example. That’s how we are able to turn it up when we get into busy periods - ingredients and time, and the rest is up to us.
I often speak with people who are worried that when they come, we will have nothing left for them. « I heard it’s best to come first thing in the morning ». Of the now « almost 2 years » since we’ve been open, we’ve run out of products to sell 3 times. So dont worry - we’ve got plenty. Corporate stores have info fed to them of how much to prepare based on data and analytics from multiple stores, years, etc. Us? It’s just me and my IPhone.
Pro tip: if you can come on a Wednesday/Thursday/Friday instead of on the weekend - it’s a whole different experience. If you can only come on the weekend: we are busiest between 10:30-12:30.
We are committed to preparing food worth travelling for, and most importantly have a great selection of it. Everything we make is from scratch. One thing often heard by our crew is: Oh I came all this way from « TOWN-ABC » to get « enter specific item here ». We hate disappointing, but since we make everything in house - there are numerous factors to food production that sometimes doesn’t allow us to make « specific item ». For exemple, our English muffins take 2 hours to make, and 1 hour to cool down. Our croissants take 4 days. Our beef pot pie takes 2 days. We encourage to try something else - but know we take your feedback seriously and are working very hard to make sure we have what you want your next time through. Every day we make more food, and every day we sell more food.
There are many challenges to running a small business in a small town. Thankfully - due to years of experience and trial and error - making and selling food isn’t one of them. Our growth has been an incredible journey, and we are working diligently to fine tune it all.
Fun fact: this Friday we delivered the most amount of items to our wholesale partners ever. Guess how many????
We want you all to come, enjoy yourselves for a brief moment and know that we strive for excellence.
This week, we are gonna roll out some fall features! ANY SUGGESTIONS? Drop them in the comments!!!
That’s my 2 cents for this Sunday; I hope you have a great start to your week and we will see you back on Wednesday when we reopen for our week (since we are now closed Tuesdays).
Thank you once again - BEN
NEW hours:
Wed-Fri 9-6
Sat-Sun 8-4
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Every step carefully calculated - every loaf miticulously crafted! We use a state of the art oven from Casasanta, a Canadian oven manufacturer based out of Brantford Ontario. They are an industry leader in bakery equipment, and we carefully designed our entire building to bring in their amazing equipment. We brought in as much electrical power that a school would have just to operate this unit. The oven was custom designed for us, with 2 stone deck, steam injection which allows for that amazing crust you see on our breads. We can bake almost 60 loaves of bread at once. We wanted everyone to see the process -so our kitchen is open for you to see it in action!
Fun fact - this oven was built in Brantford, dissassembled, transported and then reassembled in our space. It took 3 days to put back together.
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Some of us are here for a good time, but most of you are here for our Apple Rosemary Sourdough.
This is our best selling bread - it sounds weird but trust us, it isn’t. Fresh apples, fresh rosemary, premium golden raisins, our signature flour blend of rye, spelt and bread flours - the flavour and texture will satisfy you!
Great as toast, sandwiches, with soup or just, as is in your car once you leave our doors.
We sell this one everywhere- from Amherstburg to Blenheim.
Give it a try tomorrow when we open for the week from 9-6!
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New month = NEW HOURS!
OPEN
Wednesday-Friday 9-6
Saturday-Sunday 8-4
CLOSED
Monday & Tuesday
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Noah came to us in May of 2021, lining up during another lockdown with his mom at the B&B to pick up some food. It took all his courage, and encouragement from his family to come meet me. "I'd love a job & I want to learn!" We exchanged emails back & forth and voila!
A shy teenage boy spent his first summer with us - doing anything and everything that was asked of him. What I hadn't realized at first, was that Noah was from Windsor - and he was far from being old enough to drive. His parents & grandparents drove him everyday, and picked him up everyday. 5 days a week. He worked with us during the summers and kept going throughout the school year. This went on for almost 2 years, until he was old enough to drive.
Through this time, Noah started piping up a bit more while working and slowly came into his own. We would chat sports, travel, food, you name it. With time, we started teaching him a bit more, and pretty soon - he was ready for a challenge - the farmers market. He took on this role with his head held high and treated his booth like it was his own business - arranging for rides from his parents in order for him to pick up the van & products from Comber, just so he could go back to Windsor. He even enlisted the help of a cousin to help work with him on those busy Saturdays.
Mark my words - Noah is one of 5 people to take us from the business we were - to the business we've become. Without his commitment, work ethic, teamwork and dedication - we would not be where we are today and for that I am very grateful to him. Noah always asked the right questions, was never flustered, always looking to help and never said no.
Although we've always known there was an end to our time with him - he made sure to let us know he was looking for another job - and when he did get the job, he gave us a 5 months notice. A true class act. His departure is sad because we will miss him, but we are sure that he will stop by with his family, just like they all came to visit him at work for his last shift. Out of all the employees we've had - Noah is the one to get the most visitors at work!
This is the end of the "Noah Era": at the Iron Kettle but the world will now get to see what we've known all along. He walked in here a shy teenager and 5 years later he leaves a confident and extraordinary man.
Thank you Noah.
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At The Iron Kettle Commissary, we believe in strengthening the communities we serve by supporting local initiatives that nourish and uplift. As part of our commitment to social responsibility, we contribute to charitable organizations through donations, sponsorships, and community partnerships.
Our giving focuses on causes that reflect our core values—specifically, supporting food security initiatives and children’s programming local to Comber and the surrounding areas. All donation requests are thoughtfully reviewed to ensure they align with our mission and meet our ethical and community standards.
We proudly support people and organizations that support us. If you are requesting a donation but are not familiar with our business or do not follow or engage with us on social media, your request will not receive a response. We value mutual support and are committed to building genuine, reciprocal relationships within our community.
We strive to respond to all charitable inquiries in a timely and respectful manner whenever possible. However, due to the volume of requests we receive, if you do not hear back from us, please understand that it means we are not able to support the request at this time.
Please note that our charitable contributions are not made for the purposes of marketing, publicity, or brand exposure. We give with the genuine intention of supporting meaningful efforts that directly benefit our community.
For donation requests or partnership proposals, please email us at benjamin@ironkettlebb.com.
Closed Until Jan 22, 2025
