Smokehouse Levain Works is an island-based craft bakery focused on fermented dough — made slowly, shaped with intention, and finished either by fire or in your own kitchen.
Everything here begins with fermentation.
Everything is made on site.
Nothing is rushed.
Our Work: Fermented Dough
We work with time.
Long fermentation builds flavour, structure, and flexibility — allowing one dough to move easily between savoury and sweet, fresh and frozen, everyday and celebratory.
This approach lets our dough:
- perform reliably at home
- freeze at peak quality
- adapt to many uses without losing character
The dough is the work.
Creative Home Baking (Frozen)
These are our core offerings — fermented dough foundations, frozen at their best and designed to be finished in your own kitchen.
Pilot Bay Pizza Dough
Frozen, long-fermented pizza dough.
Available as:
- Single
- Double
- Family pack (6)
Also available with Traditional Margherita Sauce
(simple tomato, olive oil, garlic, salt, basil).
Add your own cheese and fresh basil at the time of baking.
Lavash Dough
Thin, flexible fermented dough designed to carry flavour without dominating it.
Well suited to:
- wraps
- folded bakes
- hand pies
- skillet breads
Available frozen in singles and multipacks.
Fermented Brioche Dough
An enriched dough that leans savoury rather than sweet.
Available as:
- Individual bun portions
- Larger pieces for home shaping
This dough moves easily between breakfast, supper, and dessert.
Focaccia (subject to availability)
Olive-oil enriched, slow-fermented focaccia dough.
Toppings are left to the baker — focaccia thrives on what’s on hand.
Wood-Fired Panuozzo
Airy, woven bread • fire-finished
Our wood-fired panuozzo is bread first.
It’s made from fermented dough and baked in high heat to create a light, elastic crumb — open, woven, and strong enough to hold fillings while staying tender when reheated.
This is not a shell.
It’s a finished bread, ready for your creative ideas.
Offered fully baked, then frozen at peak texture.
Bake-at-Home Finished Goods
Some forms are meant to be shaped before they travel.
Fermented Brioche Cinnamon Buns
with Descanso Cream
Hand-shaped cinnamon buns made with fermented brioche dough, frozen ready to bake.
Each package includes Descanso Cream — a cream cheese icing base made with:
- cream cheese
- butter
- icing sugar
Fresh cream is added from your fridge at the time of baking to finish the icing with the best texture and flavour.
Available as:
- Single
- Double
- Half dozen
Fire-Finished, Place-Specific
Some foods belong to fire and place.
Our pizzas are finished by fire on site, using the same fermented dough we offer for home baking. These are not frozen products and are meant to be eaten fresh.
The dough travels.
The fire does not.
Twin Brioches: North & South
Inspired by Twin Beaches (Gabriola Sands Provincial Park).
One dough. Two moods.
- North Beach — savoury brioche
- South Beach — sweet brioche
Baked together, shared at the same table.
You’ll see this idea reflected throughout our recipes and seasonal baking.
Cooking With Our Dough
Our recipe pages aren’t rules.
They’re ways the dough has lived with us.
You’ll find ideas for:
- Lazy Christmas Morning Family Breakfast
- Cinnamon buns on Christmas morning
- Rich turkey pies made from leftovers
- Twin Brioches, savoury and sweet
- Everyday cooking and make-ahead meals
If something works especially well for you, tell us.
That’s how the work keeps evolving.
Local First, Then Beyond
What proves itself here — flavour, texture, practicality — is what we eventually offer beyond the island.
Our local community helps shape the work before it ever travels.
One Last Thing
We don’t make categories.
We make dough that adapts.
Fermented foundations, finished by fire — or at home.
Pricing
fermented pilot Bay Pizza Dough
Frozen, long-fermented pizza dough.
- Single dough (260–280 g) — $6.00–$6.50
- Double pack — $11.50
- Family pack (6) — $33.00
Pilot Bay Pizza Dough + Margherita Sauce
Traditional margherita sauce included
(tomato, olive oil, garlic, salt, basil).
Add your own cheese and fresh basil at the time of baking.
- Single — $7.50
- Double — $14.00
- Family pack (6) — $39.00
fermented lavash Dough
Thin, flexible fermented dough.
- Single — $4.50
- 2 pack — $8.50
- 6 pack — $24.00
Fermented Brioche Dough
Enriched, savoury-leaning brioche.
- 120 g bun portion — $3.50
- 500 g dough — $12.00
Multi-packs (120 g)
- 4 pack — $13.00
- 8 pack — $24.00
Focaccia subject to availability
Olive-oil enriched, slow-fermented.
- Small slab (2–3 servings) — $8.00
- Large slab (4–6 servings) — $14.00
Wood-Fired Panuozzo
Airy, woven bread finished by fire.
- Single — $6.00
- 2 pack — $11.00
Fermented Brioche Cinnamon Buns
with Descanso Cream
Bake-at-home cinnamon buns made with fermented brioche dough.
Includes Descanso Cream
(cream cheese, butter, icing sugar base — add fresh cream at home).
Half dozen — $28.00
Single — $5.50
Double — $10.00