Bakery

• Birdmilk sees Ukrainian restaurant duo opening a bakery in Notting Hill

  

  Notting Hill's well-heeled residents will soon have another lovely new bakery on their doorstep. Birdmilk is the latest in a recent line of businesses that originated in Ukraine but have also opened in London like Boca a Boca and Piana Vyshnia.

  The restaurateurs behind it are Dima Zakhodiakin and Alina Kosichkina who own 32 restaurants in Kyiv including bakery chain Khlebniy which this London opening is

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• St John drop two new doughnut flavours

  

  What a time to be alive! This week St John Bakery have dropped not one but two new doughnut flavours for the delectation of London's bakery addicts. First up is the pistachio doughnut featuring pistachio flecked custard making them, as they say, "an exercise in pure and lovely joy."

  But that's not all. For the bakers behind one of London's most-favoured doughnuts have also got another new flavour up their

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• London's restaurants, bakeries and cafés with perma-queues - the hype is real

  

  Are you the kind of Londoner who spends their weekends and evenings queueing for the must-have cake or burger? We take a look at the places that have permanent queues outside. 

• Astrid Bakery is opening in Muswell Hill

  

  Updated 15/4/24 with opening date

  London's boutique bakery boom shows no signs of a downturn. We first became aware of Astrid Bakery during lockdown. Run by former fashion journalist Charlotte O'Kelly who retrained at Le Cordon Bleu after starting a family, its luxury breakfast box deliveries were a massive hit in those dark times and have been doing great business ever since.

  But, like

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• Where to buy a crookie in London

  

  If you like being at the cutting edge of bakery viraldom, then you'll want to know about the arrival of the Parisian pastry sensation, the crookie, in London. Here's where to find it. 

• Sourdough Sophia opens her bakery in Islington

  

  Islington is starting to do very well indeed when it comes to great bakeries. We already have Jolene and Pophams, Quince opened only a couple of months ago and now there's the arrival of Sourdough Sophia, who's just unveiled her second bakery, on Essex Road. 

  Taking over what used to be a Costa

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• The best hot cross buns in London

  

  If you love the seasonal delights of hot cross buns then now is your time. We've picked some of the best in London along with a selection of hot cross bun-flavoured treats too.

• Layers Bakery opens in E14 with ex-Hedone team in charge

  

  If your cravings lean towards the freshly baked kind, then you might want to consider joining the queue outside Layers Bakery, which opened a store and cafe down by the waterfront on the Goodluck Hope island in East London last month. It joins a hub of other creative outlets and independent businesses on the industrial-inspired riverside development on the Leamouth Peninsula, where you can see everything from the English National

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• Quince Bakery prepares to open in Islington

  

  Updated 8/2/24 with opening date

  Lucky Islington residents will have a very interesting new bakery on their doorstep. Quince Bakery is the brainchild of baker Anna Higham. She ran the bakery at Flor before becoming Executive Pastry Chef at The River Café. So it's fair to say she knows a thing or two about baked goods. 

  As for the bread she'll be baking, it'll be sourdough breads

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• Philippe Conticini are bringing their giant croissants to Islington

  

  If, like us, you live around Islington and have been wondering what's taking over the big site that used to be Rudy's Vegan Diner then wonder no more. Getting ready to open there is Philippe Conticini. 

  If that name sounds familiar, it's because you might have come across his work at the café in South Kensington or Camden's Buck Street Market. Or perhaps it's because

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