9 bakery places in London we have eaten in, sorted by editor score. All cuisines in London | Bakery across every city.
London's modern bakery scene runs on long-fermented sourdough and a generation of railway-arch and high-street ovens that turned baking into destination eating. Hackney is the dense centre of it, with E5 Bakehouse, Pophams Bakery, The Dusty Knuckle and The Bread Station all working within a few postcodes. Older institutions hold their own too: Maison Bertaux in Soho has sold French patisserie since 1871, while Bread Ahead at Borough draws queues for its doughnuts.
E5 Bakehouse ★ 4.7
hackney · Arch 395, Mentmore Terrace, London E8 3PH
Ben Mackinnon's railway-arch bakery beside London Fields station in Hackney London, opened 2010, mills its own organic flour and ships Hackney Wild sourdough.
Pophams Bakery ★ 4.8
hackney · 197 Richmond Road, London E8 3NJ
Olly Gold's laminated-pastry counter in Hackney London, opened 2016 on Richmond Road, runs the city's most-photographed viennoiserie and a Pophams Pizza.
Little Bread Pedlar ★ 4.6
borough-bermondsey · Unit 4-6 Spa Business Park, Dockley Road, London SE16 3FJ
Nichola Gensler and Martin Hardiman's railway-arch bakery in Bermondsey London, opened 2010, runs organic sourdough, viennoiserie and panettone delivered.
Bread Ahead Borough ★ 4.5
borough · Cathedral Street, London SE1 9DE
Matthew Jones's bakery counter inside Borough Market in London, opened in 2013, runs hand-rolled doughnuts and a bakery school in the railway arches just.
The Dusty Knuckle ★ 4.4
hackney · Abbot Street Car Park, Abbot Street, London E8 3DP
Max Tobias's social-enterprise bakery in a Dalston car park in east London, opened 2014, runs sourdough sandwiches, pastry and a youth training program.
Jolene ★ 4.4
stoke-newington · 21 Newington Green, London N16 9PU
Jeremie Cometto-Lingenheim and David Gingell's bakery-cafe on Newington Green in north London, opened 2019, runs sourdough, simple pasta lunches.
Toad Bakery ★ 4.2
peckham · 183 Camberwell Road, London SE5 0HB
Erin Wilkins's small-batch bakery on Camberwell Road in south London, opened 2021, runs serious natural-leaven sourdough, pastel de nata and a weekend-only.
Fortnum and Mason ★ 4.0
mayfair · 181 Piccadilly, London W1A 1ER
The 1707 grocery and bakery on Piccadilly in Mayfair London, founded by William Fortnum and Hugh Mason, claims the original Scotch egg (1738) and runs.
Maison Bertaux ★ 4.3
soho · 28 Greek Street, London W1D 5DQ
Soho's oldest patisserie, opened on Greek Street in 1871, still laminates croissants, mille-feuille and seasonal fruit tarts by hand above the tearoom.