Tellico Grains Bakery
Tellico Grains Bakery is a family-owned artisan bakery at 105 Depot Street in Tellico Plains, TN, operated by Stuart and Anissa Shull. Breads are baked fresh daily in a wood-fired brick oven, and sandwiches are made to order on house-baked rolls starting at 11 a.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Wood-fired pizzas are available daily from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The bakery sits at the western gateway to the Cherohala Skyway and has built a strong following among touring motorcyclists who stop here to fuel up before or after tackling the 43-mile byway into the Smokies.
Stuart and Anissa Shull's family-owned bakery on Depot Street has built its reputation on a wood-fired brick oven that turns out crusty loaves and pastries from scratch every day the doors are open. Sandwiches — built on house-baked rolls — come out starting at 11 a.m., and the lunch menu leans on quality ingredients: the bakery sources meats from Benton's Smoky Mountain Country Hams and uses produce that local gardeners sometimes bring in during the growing season. Wood-fired pizzas round out the midday options.
The location does a lot of the work for riders. Tellico Plains sits at the western gateway to the Cherohala Skyway, and the bakery is close enough to the entrance that stopping here before or after the 43-mile byway is a natural move rather than a detour. Weekends draw a consistent crowd of touring riders, and the staff are known for being genuinely welcoming to that crowd — the kind of place where a conversation about the road ahead comes with the order.
The ideal pre-Skyway fuel stop: fresh-baked sandwiches and pastries a quarter-mile from the Cherohala's western entrance, with staff who talk bikes and a parking lot full of two-wheelers on peak-season weekends.
On the way: Cherohala Skyway
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