A Hotel for Your Sourdough Starter? Welcome to the Future of Baking

Hold up—before you start imagining a fancy boutique hotel where you get a free sourdough loaf at check-in (a girl can dream, right?), let me clarify: The Sourdough Inn is a very different kind of place. It’s not a hotel for you—it’s a hotel for your sourdough starter. Yes, you read that right. A sourdough starter daycare. Welcome to bread geek heaven.

Launched back in the winter of 2015 in Brooklyn (because where else would this hipster dream begin?), the Sourdough Inn was created to help bakers—especially those always on the go—keep their sourdough starters happy and healthy. In 2020, it packed its bags and moved to Ørestad, just south of Copenhagen, Denmark, a country with a long, proud tradition of sourdough baking.

Why is this so genius? Because a sourdough starter—aka your wild yeast and bacteria culture magic—is alive. It needs daily feeding with flour and water to stay bubbly and ready to bake. Leave it alone while you’re away, and you risk turning your beloved starter into a sad, neglected science experiment.

Think of the Sourdough Inn as a luxury resort where your starter gets pampered with fresh food, hydration, and TLC, so when you come back from your travels, it’s still bursting with life and flavor.

For anyone obsessed with sourdough’s tangy taste and airy crumb, this “starter hotel” is the answer to a long-standing baking nightmare: what to do with your culture when you need to hit pause on your baking adventures.