Hart's Bakery is a bakery in Temple Meads, Bristol.
Editorially verified August 27, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Tip: It is under the station approach ramp, not on the concourse; allow ten minutes before your train for the queue.
Address: Arch 35, Lower Approach Road, Temple Meads, Bristol BS1 6QS
Pinkmans bakes Bristol's cult sourdough doughnuts and focaccia across five cafes; the Stokes Croft unit keeps the croft in brunch bakes and toasties.
Tip: Branches at Whiteladies Road, Wapping Wharf, the Cathedral and Westbury-on-Trym bake the same doughnuts if Stokes Croft sells out.
Worth the queue: A sourdough doughnut with the seasonal filling
Mark's Bread bakes slow-fermented loaves at the Tobacco Factory on Raleigh Road, the real-bread anchor of Bristol's North Street food strip.
Tip: It now bakes from the Tobacco Factory building itself; pair a loaf with the Sunday market downstairs.
Worth the queue: A South Bristol sourdough loaf, still warm mid-morning
The Bristol Loaf rises organic sourdough at Church Road in Redfield, the certified-organic bread bakery whose loaves stock cafes across Bristol.
Tip: Sister sites in Bedminster and at the Beacon carry the same bake; go early for the weekend pastry run.
Worth the queue: The organic sourdough that stocks half the city's cafes
Joe's Bakery has baked on Gloucester Road for generations, a Bristol shop tracing its site's history over 150 years from tin loaves to sourdough.
Tip: The smaller shop at 45 Gloucester Road covers the bottom of the hill; the carrot cake sells through by afternoon.
Worth the queue: The 50-year-recipe carrot cake, baked on site since the 1980s
Bakesmiths fills a double-height Whiteladies Road room with cakes, breakfast rolls and coffee, the bakery-cafe flagship of Bristol's Bakehouse team.
Tip: Their sister Bakehouse in St Philips bakes the sourdough; mornings here are calmer than the brunch-hour crush.
Worth the queue: A slab of the award-winning cake with a flat white
Bakehouse bakes its 48-hour sourdough in an open-plan room inside Cakesmiths' St Philips works, Bristol's bread counter with the mixer in view.
Tip: It shares the site with wholesale cake maker Cakesmiths, so the sticky buns here are the freshest in the city.
Worth the queue: The 48-hour sourdough named best loaf in Britain in 2022
