After 17 years of freshly baked breads, pastries and sweets, Upper Crust Bakery announced this week it will close its Colesville retail store. Crest Hill Bakery, the store's parent company, wants to focus on baking bread for wholesale customers, said Diane Hayes, the manager at Upper Crust.

The store's last day open will be Jan. 10, 2013, Hayes said. 

Currently, Crest Hill distributes breads locally to Whole Foods, Giant, Harris Teeter and Roots Market, a speciality store in Olney and Clarksville. Some breads also are available at farmers' markets and seasonal markets around Washington, DC and Montgomery County. (See a full list below.) 

The cupcakes, cookies and other non-bread items that some customers have come to love will be harder to find once the store closes. Hayes said the rugelach and perhaps some cookies, tea cakes and pound cakes would be available at some of the farmers' markets in the future. Currently, only the Adams Morgan market offers sweets from Upper Crust. 

Crest Hill began as a storefront bakery in the Colesville neighborhood of Silver Spring before expanding into a wholesale business with a warehouse in Beltsville, MD. The company offers over a dozen standard wholesale breads like challah and sourdough, along with another dozen or so speciality varieties like pumpkin bread and chocolate cherry bread, according to the website. 

Hayes is offering customers in the store small cards to fill out with their contact information. When more news is available about which products will be sold at different markets, the customer will receive an email update, she said. 

Here's a list of the places that offer Upper Crust products, from the store's Facebook page:

• Whole Foods Market
• Giant Food
• Roots Market (Olney and Clarksville)
• Giant Eagle (Pennsylvania)
• Bethesda Farmers Market (Sundays year round at )
• Rockville Farmers Market (Saturdays year round at Mid Pike Plaza)
• Sherry Friday market
• Sherry Thursday market
• American University (on the Quad, Wednesdays 11a-4p during school year)
• Brookland Farmers Market (10th & Otis NE, Tuesdays 4p-7p, May – October)
• University of MD (Cole Field House, Wednesdays 11a-3p, March – November)
• Georgetown Univ. (front of Healy Hall, Wednesdays 12p-5p, March – November)
• Columbia Heights (14th & Kenyon NW, Saturdays 9a-1p, April – December)
• Adams Morgan (18th & Columbia NW, Saturdays 8a-1p, June – December) {This market carries rugelach, cookies and pound cake.}