Your daily destination for exceptional breads, pastries, and ready-to-heat meals.
Closed Until Jan 22, 2025
Closed Until Jan 22, 2025
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.
2024 came and went—the pace of this year felt as if it were in double speed. Our first year of operation at the Commissary flew by, but we made sure to keep up with the pace.
The word of 2024 was GROWTH. We expanded our team, grew our product offerings, extended our business hours, increased our wholesale distribution, sourced more ingredients, and strengthened our industry partnerships. With growth comes obstacles, and although we faced many, we did not struggle in food production. One of the challenges of starting a business from scratch—especially one that has evolved from a one-man show—is the establishment of systems and processes. Once you've passed the hurdles of "creating," it's time to set up standards: ways to do things, when to do them, and how to do them. For example: when and how often should the bathroom be cleaned? When and how often should we mop the kitchen? When and how often should we pay or send invoices? There is no head office to tell you what to do, or to advise you on analytical data like industry trends or par levels (how much to order, how much to make). We are creating systems that work for us, using the tools we have, and integrating them into the flow of our daily operations. This has been a real eye-opener.
Anytime someone gets a glimpse into our world, or we step back from ours, we realize just how much food we produce and how we transform so many ingredients. In a typical week, we use 40 lbs of coffee beans, 390 liters of dairy, 180 dozen eggs, 350 lbs of butter, 2,000 lbs of flour, and 460 lbs of sugar. We really pushed the limit over the last two months to keep up with the demands of the holiday season and our growing business. We were open seven days a week for three weeks, and our team worked around the clock. Our small but efficient space was filled with people working hard, and at times, things got tense due to fatigue. We have a roster of 24 people working at the Commissary, 12 of whom are full-time. There are 14 people in the kitchen and 10 front-of-house staff. This makes us one of the largest employers in Comber. This year, we were able to give raises to all our team members, introduce a health benefit program, and host a fantastic night out for our crew and their spouses—complete with bowling and dinner—before the holiday rush.
This business shouldn't be what it is. The odds have always been stacked against us. If it wasn't for you support throughout the last year and the resilience of our team - we wouldn't have been able to grow. Whether its a comment or message online, or you stopping into our space to buy a latte a pastry, supporting us at through our different outlets in both Essex County and Chatham Kent, it's been incredible year. We took risks and explored new opportunities, upgraded some equipment and acquired new ones to be more efficient. We did a few pop-ups, hosted some dinners at the begining of the year, we attended the Downtown Windsor Farmers Market on a biweekly basis and we launched a more expansive delivery program, supplying restaurants, cafes and stores 5 days a week. We set up a temporary coffee shop inside a Garden and Home center that we have been supplying with breads for the last few years - Anna's in Kingsville. What an amazing opportunity it was to serve you coffee in their amazing space, and we are so grateful to them for their continued partnership, and entertaining our crazy ideas. Again, a coffee shop in garden center shouldn't work - but it does if you put Anna's & IK together. Sxtay tuned for more of this in 2025.
On a personal note, we had the opportunity to enjoy some incredible trips and experience travel in a way we hadn’t in a long time. We realized that since our hands were full with both business and family, we needed to ensure we still got to experience the very things we did during the year we first met.
We were happy to keep writing and sharing our story in 2024, and we are so thankful for our team for helping us with each page. As the clock strikes 12 tonight we wish you all the best for 2025. See you on Jan 22nd.
Bonne Année and CHEERS!
Ben & Ginette
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Your sweet treats made my year better, anytime I was all the way out in your area I tried to stop by! Happy I found your bakery this year 🫶🏽 cheers to 2025!
You guys are the best of the best! <3
Hats off to both of you! You are Rockstars doing all you do while raising young kids. And...managing to give raises and health benefits to your team. Brought tears of joy...so very happy for all of you and grateful that you bring so much joy to our local communities.
OPEN 9-6 today and 8-4 NYE.
We have tourtières, quiche, chowder, cheeses, croissants, butter tarts, breads, and these beautiful pastries - a Black Forest Religieuse Choux
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Oh this is so delicious. Just had one the other day. It’s like a cream puff. Chocolate mousse, raspberry.
I shared this pastry with my daughter... we both declared it very regal and delicious!
Ohhh yum
Last chance…
- to eat something delicious in 2024
- to visit the IK on a Monday or Tuesday
- to enjoy our holiday drinks (pictured our gingerbread latte)
We are open on the 30th from 9-6, and the 31st from 8-4.
Come stock up because we are closing for our winter vacation until Jan 22.
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Enjoy your well deserved vacation break!
Dennis Abram
Open 8-2 today (Sunday)!
Our shelves are full, we’ve got amazing coffee - and it’s the best thing you will do today.
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Latte s are the Best
How much are the croissants? 🥐
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Looks so good!!!!
Any pistachios baked goods?
Kay Noelle
Merry Christmas! We are open today from 8-4!
It's been an incredible 3 week run of being open everyday - we can't believe the amount of people that have been through here to support us and we are happy to celebrate the next few days with our family and hope you enjoy time with yours.
We will reopen again on 28th...
Saturday 28th 8-4
Sunday 29th 8-2
Monday 30th 9-6
Tuesday 31st 8-4
Here's an announcement: We are going to be shut down for a winter break from the 1st of January until the 22nd of January to rest, recoup, travel, and a whole bunch of nunya.
Joyeux Noel,
Ben & Ginette
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Merry 🎄 Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you and have a well-deserved break - you've put Comber on the map!
What a wonderful community you have created in our small town!!! We are so thankful! Best vibe ever on that main street!!! ❤️
Closed Until Jan 22, 2025
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