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Smør Bakery

Dining · 4+ locations · Manhattan: East Village; Brooklyn: Clinton Hill, Williamsburg

Smør Bakery grew from one East Village storefront to four across Manhattan and Brooklyn, still run day-to-day by its two founding chefs. They've funded the growth mostly from their own profits and one small loan, with no outside investor on record.

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Genuinely Independent

Smør Bakery is run day-to-day by the two Copenhagen-trained chefs who opened it as one storefront in 2019, now four across Manhattan and Brooklyn, funded mostly from their own profits. It is young and small enough to have little public record either way. Ownership stays with its founders, who answer to their own bakery rather than a fund or parent.

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Company data last updated September 2026

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