Parsons Bakery is a bakery in Gloucester Road, Bristol.
Editorially verified August 27, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Tip: This is the budget counter, not the sourdough one; a lunch here costs less than a flat white elsewhere on the road.
Address: 125 Gloucester Road, Bristol BS7 8AX
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
Mokoko bakes pastries in full view at the foot of Gaol Ferry Steps, pairing an open bakery bench with single-estate coffees on Bristol's harbourside.
Tip: Watch the bakers work the bench from the window seats; weekend afternoons run later here than most Bristol bakeries.
Worth the queue: A cruffin or laminated pastry from the open bakery bench
Hart's Bakery laminates and bakes everything inside a Victorian railway arch under Bristol Temple Meads, the send-off pastry stop before any train.
Tip: It is under the station approach ramp, not on the concourse; allow ten minutes before your train for the queue.
Worth the queue: Morning sourdough and a custard tart under the arch
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
