Bakery

• 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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• London's best bakeries - where to buy bread, pastries, buns and more...

  

  London's bakery scene is better than ever. Whether you're after the best sourdough, sublime pastries or wonderful milk loaves, here are the very best bakeries in town. 

• Chai Guys Bakehouse will serve up fusion pastries on Portobello Road

  

  Updated 9/11/23 with menu details and new opening date

  Over the past few years, Abhilash Jobanputra and Gabriel Unger have built up a loyal following for their Chai Guys stalls in places like Seven Dials Market, Covent Garden and Old Spitalfields Market. But this year marks the time when they switched it up as the pair are opening a bakery cafe in Notting Hill.

  Their bakehouse on Portobello Road,

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• Tarn Bakery sees ex-Pophams and Flor baker opening on the Archway/Highgate border

  

  Lucky North Londoners are about to get a hot new bakery opening in their neighbourhood. Tarn Bakery is currently crowdfunding to open just off the Parkland Walk in the bit where Archway hits Highgate, taking over the old Trattoria Terra space.

  The folk behind it are Florin Grama and Felix Ortona Coles who met while working at St Barts restaurant in Smithfield. Florin is the baker with a career that includes time at

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• Maya's Bakehouse sees local baker serving up sourdough and Basque cheesecake to Tulse Hill

  

  If there's anything positive that could be said to have come from Covid and lockdown it's the number of small businesses that took the challenge presented by those dark months and turned it into something good. Maya's Bakehouse is one such endeavour. Baker Maya Manwaring had trained up at the prestigious Ballymaloe Cookery School and started baking sourdough and buns during the pandemic.

  "I was home all day

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• Kayu Bakehouse is coming to London

  

  8/9/23 - updated with more details about the London launch

  Following a bakery that's come to London via Hong Kong, now here's another which has come via Dubai, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi. 

  Kayu Bakehouse dubs itself an "artisan dessert boutique" specialising in French desserts. It comes

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• The French Market hit up Finsbury Park for their next bakery

  

  23/8/23 - updated with the opening date

  The team behind Tufnell Park's Authentique Epicerie & Bar and Bakery and the French Market in Whetstone are spreading their wings. The next stop on their expansion plans is Finsbury Park where they've taken

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