Bakery

• Sablé are serving up squidgy NYC-style cookies in Fulham

  

  It's been quite the week for new bakeries opening around town and another interesting one that just caught our eye is Sablé. This is one of those businesses that originally started life as a delivery service, but demand has been such that they've now grown into a fully-fledged bakery.

  The duo behind the opening are Ratika Arora, a self-taught baker who started baking during lockdown and Andrew Scott, alas not the Hot Priest but a

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• Boulangerie Pierre Alix is opening a second bakery, this time on Holloway Road

  

  If you've been up to Muswell Hill recently you might have spotted the queues outside artisan bakery Boulangerie Pierre Alix. We joined the patisserie-loving hordes one weekend and were blown away by how good their cakes (and bread) were. So it's good news all round for North London carb addicts as the baker is about to open his second place. 

  The doors to the next bakery are about to be flung open on

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• Mahali bakery sees two top bakers opening in Battersea

  

  Mahali and Co have been winning a lot of fans over the past few years as both a bakery delivery and catering company, but now they've landed their own place in Battersea.

  The duo behind it are Ru-Yan Foong and Miguel Jocson, both pastry chefs who trained in Sydney, who set up Mahali and Co back in 2019. Ru-Yan's CV includes working for Ottolenghi and The Fat Duck while Miguel was head pastry chef at The

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• Basket Press Wines kick off a wine residency at Islington's Quince Bakery

  

  If the enticing cakes and pastries at Quince Bakery weren't enough to prompt a visit, the arrival of a new wine bar residency at the bakery is a further reason to go. Basket Press Wines is an importer of low-intervention wines and ciders from Central and Eastern Europe. Run by husband and wife team Jiri Majerik and Zainab Majeriková, they're now popping up every weekend at Quince.

  Zainab used to be head

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• Margot Bakery has opened a second branch, this time in Highgate

  

  North London baker Michelle Eshkeri is building a little bakery empire for herself. She started with Margot in East Finchley where she became known for her sourdough bread and patisserie prowess. Two years ago she followed that up with the Holloway Model Bakery just off Holloway Road. And now, very under the radar, she's opened a third place, this time Margot 2.0, in Highgate.

  The new bakery is on Archway Road, tucked in

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• It's Bagels pick Soho for their next opening

  

  23/10/24 - updated with the opening date

  Looks like Londoners' appetites for NYC-style bagels are firmly in the ascendant as news reaches us that the super popular bagel bakery It's Bagels is now heading into the West End.

  The bakery, which debuted in Primrose Hill in 2023, opened a second branch this summer in Notting Hill which was also a big hit. So the idea that they are also about to take Soho by storm

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• Don't Tell Dad is a new combo bakery/restaurant in Queen's Park

  

  One of the founders of Coco di Mama, Daniel Land, is getting ready to bring a combo bakery/restaurant Don't Tell Dad to Queen's Park. Opening on Lonsdale Road, the strip of Queens Park where you'll find its best restaurants and bars, it'll be a bakery in the day and shift to a restaurant in the evening. 

  Taking the bakery first, that'll be run by Head Baker Keren

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• Astrid Bakery prepares for expansion in Muswell Hill

  

  A Hot Dinners exclusive

  If you're a resident of Muswell Hill you can't have failed to notice the perma queues outside Astrid Bakery. Six months after the bakery opened it continued to sell out every day. Clearly, there was room to expand and the felicitous arrival on the market of a new property down the road means this is happening right now.

  Astrid owner Charlotte O'Kelly has just taken

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• Moi et Toi is a London meets Paris bakery opening up in Notting Hill's Empire Empire

  

  Now this is a clever idea. If your restaurant is more of a dinner place but you want to make the space pay for itself during the day, then why not team up with a cafe/bakery? That's what Empire Empire's owner Harneet Baweja is about to do. But the restaurateur hasn't chosen just any old bakery to team up with, he's joining forces with Edward Delling Williams, founder of super hip Parisian bistro Le Grand Bain and bakery Le

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• London’s first ever ride-through bakery is coming, thanks to Lime

  

  Hang onto your handlebars, there’s a cycle-through bakery coming to Shoreditch this weekend only. And it’s free!

  Whether you’re a bicycle owner or nay, this pastry-focused pop-up is coming to you courtesy of Lime Bikes (yes, they want to call it a ‘Lime-thru Bakery’), so in addition to free pastries and coffee, you’ll get a complimentary 15-minute ride on a Lime

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• Panadera are opening a second bakery, next to Selfridges

  

  3/9/24 - updated with the opening date

  They're one of the best bakeries in London, so news that Filipino bakery Panadera was expanding was always going to be of interest. Now we know where they're opening their second place - right around the corner from Selfridges. The new home on Picton Place puts

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• Istanbul confectioner Hafiz Mustafa chooses Knightsbridge for its first London store

  

  For over 150 years, the Istanbul sweet and dessert giant Hafiz Mustafa has been a place of pilgrimage for sweet-toothed Turks (and tourists). Now the giant, which has stores all over Turkey and in Dubai is heading to London. They're opening a massive shop in a prime spot opposite Harrods.

  Not only will the shop sell their famous baklava and rock candy, but there will also be room to sit in and

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• Crumb get set for Angel with their NYC style cookies

  

  Cookie lovers in Islington should keep an eye out for the opening of new space Crumb this autumn which is promising to bring NYC style thick, gooey cookies to the denizens of N1.

  They're opening in a teeny space on Camden Passage making it more of a cookie hatch than a cafe - but one that also sells coffee to go. The endeavour is the brainchild of baker Amy Gastman who also runs a vegan bakery Eat By Amy after leaving her

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• It's Bagels are opening in Notting Hill

  

  Updated 13/8/24 with the new opening date

  A few weeks back, super viral bagel bakery It's Bagels put a post up on Instagram looking for staff. "We are expanding," they said. Thanks to a Hot Dinners reader, we discovered that they were coming to Notting Hill. Since then we've found out more about what this new location is bringing. 

  They've picked the site that used to belong to Rika Moon on

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• Viral Leeds bakery Get Baked is popping up at Fortnum's

  

  Leeds bakery Get Baked makes a cake so viral that mere minutes after sales go live on their website every slice is gone in a flash. Now, Get Baked by Rich Myers is coming to London.

  Best known for its Bruce cake - a towering 24-layered chocolate cake - the London pop-up will showcase the creation of Bruce's successor, the Bertha which is exactly the same except for one detail, the ganache will be a mix of milk and

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