bakerySave My Bakery · Season 1, Episode 6 · Aired April 23, 2014
Holmesburg Bakery
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Good outcome here: the business is still trading today.
On the show
Season 1, Episode 6 · April 23, 2014 · bakery
Holmesburg neighborhood; billed as Philadelphia's oldest family bakery
What happened after
Actively operating at 7935 Frankford Ave, Philadelphia (Torresdale neighborhood), family-owned since 1900. Listed as active across Facebook, Instagram, and UberEats with delivery service.
What happened on the show
The fight at Holmesburg Bakery was generational. Billed as Philadelphia's oldest family-run bakery, the shop pitted an owner determined to protect old traditions against a son pushing to modernize with newer, higher-tech methods. Kerry Vincent stepped into that standoff on the season's sixth episode in late April 2014, and the tension between preserving heritage and updating to survive gave the visit its spine. It is a cleaner conflict than most on the show, less about a broken product than about two people who love the same bakery and disagree completely on how to keep it alive. Vincent's task was to referee, to sort which traditions were worth defending and which were quietly sinking a business trading on its own history. A century-old family name carries weight in Philadelphia, and the episode leans into that legacy: the oldest bakery of its kind in the city, run by relatives caught between what made it and what might save it.
After the cameras left
Holmesburg Bakery endures. Family-owned since 1900, it is operating at 7935 Frankford Avenue in Philadelphia as of our latest verification pass, with active Facebook and Instagram presences and UberEats delivery among the current signals of a working business. One note on the record: the address sits in the Torresdale area rather than the Holmesburg neighborhood the episode name evokes, a small geographic wrinkle that does not change the outcome. A bakery that traces its roots to 1900 and was still fielding online orders more than a decade after Vincent's visit has clearly weathered the old-versus-new fight the episode dramatized. Confirmed operating as of 2026, one of this season's survivors.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.