OUR STORY
We knew our lives would change when 13 years ago we decided to devote our lives and a meagre inheritance to the building of our tiny rolling oven but never did we picture ourselves as proprietors of a full scale bakery with walls, no less!
Our early vision of a Big Island baking circuit hit an immediate snag when we towed little Mathilda (as in Waltzing) onto the Parker School grounds to help found the Waimea Town Market. The reception for our fresh, hot bread was staggering and we soon knew tiny Mathilda could never meet the demand of even one town let alone the 4four districts we had thought to supply. By year two a second oven with twice the capacity (20 loaves at a time) was ordered and built outdoors, under the eaves of the Tropical Dreams Ice Cream factory. And we still couldn’t feed our fans.
Our bakery sprawl continued as the years passed; turnovers, strudels, baguettes, lavosh, bars and tarts were added to our repertoire. Our tent footprint expanded from one and a backup to four! Tables and tables of baked goods shuttled to the farmer’s market, load after load as we strove to supply our community.
And then the proverbial “other shoe” dropped. The Edneys and Tropical Dreams, our landlord, faced a zoning crisis. John Edney had given many people a place to start their businesses. The Tropical Dreams property had become an entrepreneurial incubator and had finally crossed some zoning line in the sand. The county insisted that most of his tenants, us included, had to leave.
That could have been the end of our little endeavor. Our hearts skipped more than a few beats. Did this mean a return to the dreaded underbelly of the hotel bake shops?! NO! Serendipity stepped in again and an old family-owned bakery in town quite suddenly (and sadly) became available! In a frenzy of unpolished typing I threw together the first business plan that we’d had since beginning our adventure, and the landlords of the shop liked what they read.
And so, after many months of renovation, updating, painting, plumbing and furious practice runs, the door opened to Sandwich Isle Bread Company’s first bakery with walls.

WHERE TO BUY OUR BREADS AND PASTRIES
WAIMEA TOWN MARKET
@ Parker School
Saturdays 7:30am to noon
65-1224 Lindsey Rd, Waimea, HI 96743
SANDWICH ISLE BREAD COMPANY
@ Waimea Center
Tues & Fri – 8am to 5pm, Sat 8am to 2pm
65-1158 Hawaiʻi Belt Rd Ste. 7, Waimea, HI 96743