{"category":{"slug":"bakeries","name":"Bakeries","blurb":"The best baking in London. Bread, viennoiserie and patisserie worth crossing town for."},"filters":[{"id":"bread","label":"Bread","field":"types"},{"id":"viennoiserie","label":"Viennoiserie","field":"types"},{"id":"patisserie","label":"Patisserie","field":"types"},{"id":"open","label":"Open now","kind":"open"},{"id":"outdoor","label":"Outside tables","field":"attrs"},{"id":"stepfree","label":"Step-free","field":"attrs"}],"places":[{"slug":"toad-bakery-albury-court","name":"Toad Bakery","area":"Albury Court","address":"1-3 Market Yard, SE8 4BX","station":"Deptford","walk":2,"lat":51.478065,"lng":-0.026253,"hours":[[7.5,15.5],[7.5,15.5],[7.5,15.5],[7.5,15.5],[7.5,15.5],[8.0,16.0],[9.0,15.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Fr 07:30-15:30; Sa 08:00-16:00; Su 09:00-15:00","website":"https://www.toadbakery.com/","instagram":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/14023017201","types":["bread","viennoiserie"],"verdict":"Toad's Deptford arch, and the reason to get off at the right stop.","note":"Market Yard is a scrap of railway land behind the high street and Toad have made it the best-smelling corner of SE8. Half seven to four, bread out early, pastry gone by mid-morning on a Saturday. Two minutes from the station and worth the detour from anywhere.","hours_source":"osm"},{"slug":"buns-from-home-angel","name":"Buns From Home","area":"Angel","address":"12 Camden Passage, N1 8ED","station":"Angel","walk":5,"lat":51.535009,"lng":-0.10361,"hours":[[8.0,20.0],[8.0,20.0],[8.0,21.0],[8.0,21.0],[8.0,21.0],[8.0,21.0],[8.0,21.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Tu 08:00-20:00; We-Su 08:00-21:00","website":null,"instagram":"bunsfromhome","attrs":[],"osm":"node/11378228114","types":["viennoiserie"],"verdict":"Camden Passage, and still selling buns long after every other bakery has locked up.","note":"The group has grown fast enough to make you wary and the laminating has held up better than it had any right to. Thirteen hours a day means you can have a cardamom bun at eight in the evening, which is either civilised or a warning.","hours_source":"osm"},{"slug":"cedric-grolet-at-the-berkeley","name":"C\u00e9dric Grolet at The Berkeley","area":"Belgravia","address":null,"station":"Hyde Park Corner","walk":2,"lat":51.502208,"lng":-0.156132,"hours":[[8.0,19.0],[8.0,19.0],[8.0,19.0],[8.0,19.0],[8.0,19.0],[8.0,19.0],[8.0,19.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Su 08:00-19:00","website":null,"instagram":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/10091714836","types":["patisserie","viennoiserie"],"verdict":"Trompe-l'\u0153il fruit that costs more than lunch, and is worth seeing once.","note":"Grolet's Berkeley counter is patisserie as sculpture \u2014 apples and lemons that turn out to be pastry. Queues form before opening and the prices are Knightsbridge prices. Go for the spectacle, and do not pretend it is a bakery run.","hours_source":"osm"},{"slug":"poilane","name":"Poil\u00e2ne","area":"Belgravia","address":"46 Elizabeth Street, SW1W 9PA","station":"Sloane Square","walk":6,"lat":51.493807,"lng":-0.150831,"hours":[[8.0,16.0],[8.0,16.0],[8.0,16.0],[8.0,16.0],[8.0,16.0],[8.0,14.0],null],"hours_raw":"Mo-Fr 08:00-16:00; Sa 08:00-14:00","website":"https://www.poilane.com","instagram":"poilane","attrs":[],"osm":"way/545148144","types":["bread"],"verdict":"The Paris institution's London arm, still selling the same enormous loaf.","note":"Elizabeth Street is Belgravia at its most village-like and Poil\u00e2ne has sat on it since 2000, cutting quarters off the sourdough miche for anyone who cannot carry two kilos home. Closed Sundays. Buy the punitions on the way out.","hours_source":"osm"},{"slug":"little-bread-pedlar-bermondsey","name":"Little Bread Pedlar","area":"Bermondsey","address":"SE16 3FJ","station":"Bermondsey","walk":6,"lat":51.495948,"lng":-0.068906,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"website":"https://www.lbpedlar.com/","instagram":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/11007684260","types":["bread","viennoiserie"],"verdict":"The Bermondsey bakehouse, where the wholesale loaves start.","note":"This is the working end rather than the shopfront \u2014 an arch operation supplying half the restaurants in SE1. The Lower Marsh shop is the one to sit in; come here for the sense of scale behind it.","hours_source":null},{"slug":"comptoir-gourmand","name":"Comptoir Gourmand","area":"Bermondsey Village","address":"96 Bermondsey Street, SE1 3UB","station":"London Bridge","walk":8,"lat":51.500833,"lng":-0.081982,"hours":[[7.5,15.0],[7.5,15.0],[7.5,16.0],[7.5,16.0],[7.5,17.0],[7.5,17.0],[8.0,16.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Tu 07:30-15:00; We-Th 07:30-16:00; Fr-Sa 07:30-17:00; Su 08:00-16:00","website":"https://www.comptoirbakery.co.uk/pages/bermondsey","instagram":"comptoir_bakery_school","attrs":[],"osm":"node/6432527385","types":["viennoiserie","patisserie"],"verdict":"French pastry on Bermondsey Street, with an unusually long Saturday.","note":"Open till five on a Friday and Saturday, which is late for a bakery and useful on a street that fills up in the afternoon. Viennoiserie is the strength; the savoury counter is a fair lunch if the queue at the market has beaten you.","hours_source":"osm"},{"slug":"buns-from-home","name":"Buns From Home","area":"Bethnal Green","address":"25 Broadway Market, E8 4PH","station":"Cambridge Heath","walk":9,"lat":51.536279,"lng":-0.062196,"hours":[[7.0,20.0],[7.0,20.0],[7.0,20.0],[7.0,20.0],[7.0,22.0],[7.0,21.0],[7.0,20.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Th 07:00-20:00; Fr 07:00-22:00; Sa 07:00-21:00; Su 07:00-20:00","website":"https://www.bunsfromhome.com/","instagram":"bunsfromhome","attrs":["stepfree"],"osm":"way/373401924","types":["viennoiserie"],"verdict":"Broadway Market, open from seven, and latest of the lot on a Friday.","note":"Fifteen hours a day on a street that is chaos every Saturday. Utterly unromantic about it \u2014 get in, get a bun, get out. Nine minutes from Cambridge Heath and easier on a weekday.","hours_source":"osm"},{"slug":"forno-bethnal-green","name":"Forno","area":"Bethnal Green","address":"322 Andrews Road, E8 4RP","station":"Cambridge Heath","walk":5,"lat":51.534507,"lng":-0.057838,"hours":[[7.5,16.0],[7.5,16.0],[7.5,16.0],[7.5,16.0],[7.5,16.0],[8.0,17.0],[8.0,17.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Fr 07:30-16:00; Sa-Su 08:00-17:00","website":null,"instagram":null,"attrs":["outdoor","stepfree"],"osm":"node/10882805054","types":["bread"],"verdict":"A canalside bakery that treats bread as the main event.","note":"Andrews Road sits on the towpath above Broadway Market, which makes this a good first or last stop on a walk along the Regent's Canal. Half seven to five, seven days, and a loaf worth carrying home.","hours_source":"osm"},{"slug":"yeast-bakery","name":"Yeast Bakery","area":"Bethnal Green","address":null,"station":"Cambridge Heath","walk":5,"lat":51.5345,"lng":-0.059824,"hours":[null,null,[8.0,15.5],[8.0,15.5],[8.0,15.5],[9.0,16.0],[9.0,16.0]],"hours_raw":"We-Fr 08:00-15:30; Sa-Su 09:00-16:00; Mo-Tu off","website":"https://www.yeastbakery.com","instagram":"yeastbakery","attrs":["outdoor"],"osm":"node/9024624917","types":["bread"],"verdict":"Small, Bethnal Green, and closed more days than it opens.","note":"Wednesday to Sunday only, eight till four \u2014 the schedule of a bakery that would rather make less and make it properly. Five minutes from Cambridge Heath. Check the day before you go.","hours_source":"osm"},{"slug":"bread-ahead","name":"Bread Ahead","area":"Borough Market","address":"Cathedral Street, SE1 9DE","station":"London Bridge","walk":2,"lat":51.505968,"lng":-0.090417,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"website":"https://www.breadahead.com/","instagram":"breadaheadbakery","attrs":[],"osm":"node/9550749413","types":["bread","viennoiserie"],"verdict":"The Borough Market arch, and the doughnut that started all of this.","note":"Bread Ahead have been in the market since 2013 and the queue at the counter has never really gone away. The custard doughnut is the famous one and deserves to be. Three minutes from London Bridge, and best before the market itself gets going.","hours_source":null},{"slug":"old-post-office-bakery-chalk-farm","name":"Old Post Office Bakery","area":"Chalk Farm","address":null,"station":"Camden Road","walk":1,"lat":51.541756,"lng":-0.138648,"hours":[null,null,[7.0,16.0],[7.0,16.0],[7.0,16.0],[7.0,16.0],[7.0,16.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Tu off; We-Su 07:00-16:00","website":"http://www.oldpostofficebakery.co.uk/","instagram":"oldpostofficebakery","attrs":[],"osm":"node/6763901763","types":["bread"],"verdict":"The Brixton organic bakery, transplanted to Camden Road.","note":"Seven in the morning until four, one minute from Camden Road station \u2014 an unusually convenient version of a bakery that has been doing this since 1982. Sourdough, and not much interest in anything else.","hours_source":"osm"},{"slug":"buns-from-home-crouch-end","name":"Buns From Home","area":"Crouch End","address":"47 The Broadway, N8 8DT","station":"Crouch Hill","walk":17,"lat":51.580016,"lng":-0.124028,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"website":null,"instagram":"bunsfromhome","attrs":[],"osm":"node/6630183674","types":["viennoiserie"],"verdict":"Crouch End's branch, seventeen minutes uphill from anywhere.","note":"Crouch End's distance from the tube is its whole personality, and it keeps this pleasantly local. The Broadway is the centre of things; get a bun and walk back down.","hours_source":null},{"slug":"the-dusty-knuckle","name":"The Dusty Knuckle","area":"Dalston","address":"Abbot Street, E8 3DP","station":"Dalston Kingsland","walk":3,"lat":51.547103,"lng":-0.074151,"hours":[[8.0,15.5],[8.0,15.5],[8.0,15.5],[8.0,15.5],[8.0,15.5],[8.0,15.5],[8.0,15.5]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Su 08:00-15:30","website":"https://www.thedustyknuckle.com/","instagram":"thedustyknuckle","attrs":["stepfree"],"osm":"node/14061641502","types":["bread"],"verdict":"A youth-training bakery that happens to make the best loaf in Dalston.","note":"Dusty Knuckle train and employ young people who have been through the criminal justice system, and never lead with it. Abbot Street is a yard behind the Kingsland Road \u2014 eight till half three, seven days, and the sandwich is worth staying for.","hours_source":"osm"},{"slug":"fabrique","name":"Fabrique","area":"East Marylebone","address":"53 Goodge Street, W1T 1TG","station":"Goodge Street","walk":3,"lat":51.519075,"lng":-0.136125,"hours":[[8.0,18.5],[8.0,18.5],[8.0,18.5],[8.0,18.5],[8.0,18.5],[9.0,18.0],[9.0,18.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Fr 08:00-18:30; Sa-Su 09:00-18:00","website":"http://fabrique.co.uk/","instagram":"fabriquebakery","attrs":["outdoor"],"osm":"way/345389726","types":["bread","viennoiserie"],"verdict":"Swedish, wood-fired, and the cardamom bun that started the London craze.","note":"Fabrique brought the Stockholm bakery model here and everyone else followed. Goodge Street is the most useful branch \u2014 open till half six on a weekday, three minutes from the tube, and reliably better than the imitators.","hours_source":"osm"},{"slug":"e5-bakehouse","name":"E5 Bakehouse","area":"Hackney","address":"395 Mentmore Terrace, E8 3PH","station":"London Fields","walk":1,"lat":51.541244,"lng":-0.057515,"hours":[[7.5,17.5],[7.5,17.5],[7.5,17.5],[7.5,17.5],[7.5,17.5],[8.0,17.5],[8.0,17.5]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Fr 07:30-17:30; Sa-Su 08:00-17:30","website":"https://e5bakehouse.com/","instagram":"e5bakehouse","attrs":["outdoor","wifi","stepfree"],"osm":"node/2699676449","types":["bread"],"verdict":"Under the arches at London Fields, and one of the loaves that changed London.","note":"E5 have been milling and baking in that railway arch since 2010 and the place still smells like a working bakery rather than a shop. Half seven to half five, seven days, a minute from the station. Sit in if there is room.","hours_source":"osm"},{"slug":"pophams-bakery","name":"Pophams Bakery","area":"Hackney","address":"197 Richmond Road, E8 3NJ","station":"London Fields","walk":5,"lat":51.543558,"lng":-0.057637,"hours":[[7.5,16.0],[7.5,16.0],[7.5,16.0],[7.5,16.0],[7.5,16.0],[8.0,16.0],[8.5,16.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Fr 07:30-16:00; Sa 08:00-16:00; Su 08:30-16:00","website":"https://www.pophamsbakery.com/","instagram":"pophamsbakery","attrs":["outdoor","wifi"],"osm":"node/7908733411","types":["viennoiserie"],"verdict":"Richmond Road, and pastry laminated to within an inch of its life.","note":"Pophams built the reputation on the maple and bacon and the bakery has stayed narrow and busy ever since. Five minutes from London Fields. Come before ten or accept what is left.","hours_source":"osm"},{"slug":"the-snapery-east","name":"The Snapery East","area":"Hackney","address":"Helmsley Place, E8 3SB","station":"London Fields","walk":3,"lat":51.539435,"lng":-0.058263,"hours":[[7.0,16.0],[7.0,16.0],[7.0,16.0],[7.0,16.0],[7.0,16.0],[7.0,16.0],[7.0,16.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Su 07:00-16:00","website":"https://thesnaperyeast.com/","instagram":null,"attrs":["outdoor"],"osm":"node/8589414919","types":["bread"],"verdict":"Helmsley Place, seven in the morning, seven days a week.","note":"The Snapery supply a good number of London kitchens and this is where you buy it over a counter instead. Early opening and a Hackney backstreet address \u2014 the sort of place you find because someone told you.","hours_source":"osm"},{"slug":"bread-ahead-hans-town","name":"Bread Ahead","area":"Hans Town","address":"249 Pavilion Road, SW1X 0BP","station":"Sloane Square","walk":4,"lat":51.493402,"lng":-0.158679,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"website":"https://www.breadahead.com/","instagram":"breadaheadbakery","attrs":[],"osm":"node/8345248691","types":["bread","viennoiserie"],"verdict":"Pavilion Road, which is Chelsea pretending to be a village.","note":"The whole street is a curated parade of independents, and Bread Ahead fit it neatly. Four minutes from Sloane Square. Good for a doughnut on the way to somewhere more expensive.","hours_source":null},{"slug":"margot-bakery","name":"Margot Bakery","area":"Highgate","address":"373 Archway Road, N6 4EJ","station":"Highgate","walk":3,"lat":51.578072,"lng":-0.148449,"hours":[[8.0,16.0],[8.0,16.0],[8.0,16.0],[8.0,16.0],[8.0,16.0],[8.0,15.0],[8.0,15.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Fr 08:00-16:00; Sa-Su 08:00-15:00","website":"https://www.margotbakery.co.uk/margot-highgate","instagram":"margotbakery","attrs":[],"osm":"node/13514390201","types":["bread","viennoiserie"],"verdict":"Archway Road, and a genuine reason to be in Highgate.","note":"Margot has the local following that keeps a small bakery honest \u2014 eight till four, weekends included, three minutes from the tube. The bread is the thing, though the pastry does not disgrace itself.","hours_source":"osm"},{"slug":"jolene-colebrooke-row","name":"Jolene Colebrooke Row","area":"Islington","address":"Colebrooke Row, N1 8AA","station":"Angel","walk":9,"lat":51.536531,"lng":-0.101402,"hours":[[8.0,15.0],[8.0,15.0],[8.0,15.0],[8.0,15.0],[8.0,15.0],[8.0,15.0],[8.0,15.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Su 08:00-15:00","website":"http://www.bigjobakery.com","instagram":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/12464879801","types":["bread","viennoiserie"],"verdict":"Stone-ground flour, own farm, and a shop that shuts at three.","note":"Jolene mill their own and it shows in a loaf that tastes of something. Colebrooke Row is one of the prettier stretches of Islington. Eight till three, seven days \u2014 this is a morning proposition and they mean it.","hours_source":"osm"},{"slug":"sourdough-sophia","name":"Sourdough Sophia","area":"Islington","address":"119 Essex road, N1 2SN","station":"Essex Road","walk":4,"lat":51.539291,"lng":-0.098331,"hours":[[8.0,15.5],[8.0,15.5],[8.0,15.5],[8.0,15.5],[8.0,15.5],[8.0,15.5],[9.0,16.5]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Sa 08:00-15:30; Su 09:00-16:30","website":"https://sourdoughsophia.co.uk/","instagram":"sourdoughsophia","attrs":[],"osm":"node/300066382","types":["bread","viennoiserie"],"verdict":"Essex Road, and later on a Sunday than most of its rivals.","note":"Half four on a Sunday is generous for a bakery, and Essex Road is short of places worth stopping. Four minutes from the overground. Sourdough in the name and in the window.","hours_source":"osm"},{"slug":"bread-by-bike-bakery","name":"Bread By Bike Bakery","area":"Kentish Town","address":"30 Brecknock Road, N7 0DD","station":"Kentish Town","walk":10,"lat":51.549659,"lng":-0.130011,"hours":[[8.0,16.0],[8.0,16.0],[8.0,16.0],[8.0,16.0],[8.0,16.0],[8.0,16.0],[8.0,16.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Su 08:00-16:00","website":"https://breadbybike.com/home","instagram":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/9402952048","types":["bread"],"verdict":"Delivers by bicycle, bakes on Brecknock Road.","note":"The name is a policy rather than a flourish \u2014 the wholesale round goes out on two wheels. Eight till four, seven days. Ten minutes from Kentish Town, which is the price of the neighbourhood.","hours_source":"osm"},{"slug":"forno","name":"FORNO","area":"Leytonstone","address":"47 Church Lane, E11 1HE","station":"Leytonstone","walk":1,"lat":51.568514,"lng":0.009246,"hours":[[7.5,16.0],[7.5,16.0],[7.5,16.0],[7.5,16.0],[7.5,16.0],[8.0,17.0],[8.0,16.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Fr 07:30-16:00; Sa 08:00-17:00; Su 08:00-16:00","website":"https://forno.london/home","instagram":null,"attrs":["outdoor"],"osm":"way/194280538","types":["bread"],"verdict":"The Leytonstone branch, a minute from the station.","note":"Church Lane has quietly become a decent stretch and Forno is a large part of why. Half seven to five, seven days, and no walk to speak of. Worth the Central line if you are exploring east.","hours_source":"osm"},{"slug":"arome-bakery-marylebone","name":"Arome Bakery","area":"Marylebone","address":"27 Duke Street","station":"Bond Street","walk":4,"lat":51.515368,"lng":-0.151819,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"website":null,"instagram":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/12990629601","types":["viennoiserie","patisserie"],"verdict":"Ar\u00f4me on Duke Street, and the croissant that beat the queue.","note":"Ar\u00f4me laminate as well as anyone in London and have spread just fast enough to still care. Four minutes from Bond Street, which puts it within reach of Selfridges without being of it.","hours_source":null},{"slug":"fabrique-bakery","name":"Fabrique Bakery","area":"North Kensington","address":"212 Portobello Road, W11 1LA","station":"Ladbroke Grove","walk":6,"lat":51.51668,"lng":-0.205419,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"website":"http://fabrique.co.uk/","instagram":"fabriquebakery","attrs":[],"osm":"node/7204156291","types":["bread","viennoiserie"],"verdict":"Portobello Road, and the wood-fired oven doing the work.","note":"The Portobello branch is the one to visit on a market Saturday, when the whole street is impassable and a cardamom bun is the only sensible objective. Six minutes from Ladbroke Grove.","hours_source":null},{"slug":"layla-bakery","name":"Layla bakery","area":"North Kensington","address":"332 Portobello Road, W10 5RU","station":"Ladbroke Grove","walk":8,"lat":51.521698,"lng":-0.210542,"hours":[null,[8.0,15.5],[8.0,15.5],[8.0,15.5],[8.0,15.5],[8.0,15.5],[9.0,15.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo off; Tu-Sa 08:00-15:30; Su 09:00-15:00","website":"https://www.laylabakery.com/","instagram":"layla_w10","attrs":[],"osm":"node/9314750401","types":["bread","viennoiserie"],"verdict":"Portobello Road, closed Mondays, and worth planning around.","note":"Layla mill and bake on site at the north end of Portobello, well past the tourist stretch. Tuesday to Sunday, shut by half three. The bread is the reason; the pastry is why you buy more than you meant to.","hours_source":"osm"},{"slug":"toad-bakery","name":"Toad Bakery","area":"Peckham","address":"44 Peckham Road, SE5 8PX","station":"Denmark Hill","walk":14,"lat":51.473515,"lng":-0.081122,"hours":[null,[8.0,15.0],[8.0,15.0],[8.0,15.0],[8.0,15.0],[8.0,15.0],[9.0,15.0]],"hours_raw":"Tu-Sa 08:00-15:00; Su 09:00-15:00","website":"https://www.toadbakery.com","instagram":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/11999189644","types":["bread","viennoiserie"],"verdict":"Peckham Road, and a fourteen-minute walk that filters the casual.","note":"Toad's Camberwell room is bigger and calmer than the Deptford arch, with a proper sit-down lunch behind the counter. Tuesday to Sunday. The walk from Denmark Hill is the price of admission.","hours_source":"osm"},{"slug":"arome-bakery","name":"Arome Bakery","area":"Seven Dials","address":"9 Mercer Street, WC2H 9QJ","station":"Covent Garden","walk":2,"lat":51.512992,"lng":-0.126141,"hours":[null,null,[8.0,17.0],[8.0,17.0],[8.0,17.0],[8.0,17.0],[9.0,16.0]],"hours_raw":"We-Sa 08:00-17:00; Su 09:00-16:00","website":null,"instagram":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"way/565171620","types":["viennoiserie","patisserie"],"verdict":"Mercer Street, Seven Dials, and a queue that starts before opening.","note":"Two minutes from Covent Garden and utterly overrun by mid-morning. Eight till five, seven days. Go early, or go to the Duke Street branch and feel clever about it.","hours_source":"osm"},{"slug":"fabrique-seven-dials","name":"Fabrique","area":"Seven Dials","address":"8 Earlham Street, WC2H 9RY","station":"Leicester Square","walk":4,"lat":51.513437,"lng":-0.12838,"hours":[[8.0,19.0],[8.0,19.0],[8.0,19.0],[8.0,19.0],[8.0,19.0],[8.0,19.0],[9.0,18.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Fr 08:00-19:00; Sa 08:00-19:00; Su 09:00-18:00","website":"http://fabrique.co.uk/","instagram":"fabriquebakery","attrs":[],"osm":"way/349913639","types":["bread","viennoiserie"],"verdict":"Earlham Street, open till seven, which saves the evening.","note":"Most bakeries have given up by four; Fabrique on Seven Dials keeps going, which makes it the answer after a matinee. Four minutes from Leicester Square and calmer than that suggests.","hours_source":"osm"},{"slug":"jolene-redchurch-street","name":"Jolene Redchurch Street","area":"Shoreditch","address":"67 Redchurch Street, E2 7DJ","station":"Shoreditch High Street","walk":2,"lat":51.524571,"lng":-0.07431,"hours":[[8.0,16.0],[8.0,16.0],[8.0,16.0],[8.0,16.0],[8.0,16.0],[9.0,16.0],[9.0,16.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Fr 08:00-16:00; Sa-Su 09:00-16:00","website":"https://jolenebakery.com","instagram":"clareshilland","attrs":[],"osm":"way/373118133","types":["bread","viennoiserie"],"verdict":"Jolene on Redchurch Street, milling its own flour.","note":"Redchurch Street has turned over completely around it and Jolene has stayed exactly as it was \u2014 bare, busy, and serious about the loaf. Two minutes from Shoreditch High Street. Eight till four.","hours_source":"osm"},{"slug":"pavilion-bakery","name":"Pavilion Bakery","area":"Shoreditch","address":"130 Columbia Road, E2 7RG","station":"Hoxton","walk":8,"lat":51.529198,"lng":-0.0695,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"website":null,"instagram":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/7538108746","types":["bread"],"verdict":"Columbia Road, which on a Sunday is a different proposition entirely.","note":"Six days a week this is a calm neighbourhood bakery; on flower-market Sunday it is a scrum with a queue down the pavement. Both are worth it. Eight minutes from Hoxton.","hours_source":null},{"slug":"bread-ahead-soho","name":"Bread Ahead","area":"Soho","address":"21 Beak Street, W1F 9RP","station":"Piccadilly Circus","walk":6,"lat":51.512172,"lng":-0.138227,"hours":[[7.5,20.0],[7.5,20.0],[7.5,20.0],[7.5,20.0],[7.5,20.0],[7.5,20.0],[10.5,19.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Sa 07:30-20:00; Su 10:30-19:00","website":"https://www.breadahead.com/","instagram":"breadaheadbakery","attrs":[],"osm":"node/5507577921","types":["bread","viennoiserie"],"verdict":"Beak Street, open till eight, and the doughnut that made the name.","note":"The Soho branch runs later than any other bakery on this list \u2014 half seven to eight, and half ten to seven on a Sunday. Six minutes from Piccadilly Circus. Useful when everything else has shut.","hours_source":"osm"},{"slug":"the-snapery-bakery","name":"The Snapery Bakery","area":"South Bermondsey","address":"214 Rotherhithe New Road, SE16 3EH","station":"South Bermondsey","walk":5,"lat":51.490259,"lng":-0.056798,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"website":null,"instagram":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/11774995516","types":["bread"],"verdict":"Rotherhithe New Road, where the actual baking happens.","note":"The wholesale end of The Snapery, out in the industrial stretch below Bermondsey. Not a destination so much as a source. Five minutes from South Bermondsey if you are already out that way.","hours_source":null},{"slug":"beigel-bake","name":"Beigel Bake","area":"Spitalfields","address":"159 Brick Lane, E1 6SB","station":"Shoreditch High Street","walk":4,"lat":51.524512,"lng":-0.071752,"hours":[[0,24],[0,24],[0,24],[0,24],[0,24],[0,24],[0,24]],"hours_raw":"24/7","website":"https://bricklanebeigel.co.uk/","instagram":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"way/271641402","types":["bread"],"verdict":"Twenty-four hours a day on Brick Lane, and it has earned every one of them.","note":"The salt beef beigel at three in the morning is a London institution and the queue at that hour is half the point. Nothing here is refined and nothing needs to be. Four minutes from Shoreditch High Street.","hours_source":"osm"},{"slug":"toklas","name":"Toklas","area":"St Clement Danes","address":"9 Surrey Street, WC2R 2ND","station":"Temple","walk":1,"lat":51.511612,"lng":-0.114977,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"website":null,"instagram":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/10945112305","types":["bread","viennoiserie"],"verdict":"A bakery attached to a very good restaurant, which is the right way round.","note":"Toklas sits behind the Strand on Surrey Street with a bakery counter at the front and a dining room behind it. One minute from Temple. The bread supplies the kitchen, which tells you what it is like.","hours_source":null},{"slug":"o-craquelin","name":"\u00d4 Craquelin","area":"St Clement Danes","address":"42 Tavistock Street, WC2E 7PB","station":"Covent Garden","walk":5,"lat":51.512273,"lng":-0.119896,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"website":"https://ocraquelin.com/","instagram":"ocraquelin","attrs":[],"osm":null,"types":["patisserie"],"verdict":"Tavistock Street, and pastry treated as a discipline.","note":"A small Covent Garden p\u00e2tisserie doing the technical French repertoire properly rather than the Instagram version of it. Five minutes from the piazza and a world quieter. Worth the detour off the main drag.","hours_source":null},{"slug":"happy-sky-japanese-bakery","name":"Happy Sky Japanese Bakery","area":"St Giles","address":"40 Hanway Street, W1T 1UT","station":"Tottenham Court Road","walk":2,"lat":51.516552,"lng":-0.132663,"hours":[null,null,null,[11.0,16.0],[11.0,16.0],[11.0,16.0],[11.0,16.0]],"hours_raw":"Th-Su 11:00-16:00","website":"https://www.happyskylondon.com/","instagram":"happyskybakery","attrs":[],"osm":"node/13253762166","types":["viennoiserie"],"verdict":"Japanese baking on Hanway Street, four days a week.","note":"Milk bread, curry buns and a great deal of care, on one of the strangest little streets in the West End. Thursday to Sunday, eleven till four \u2014 the opening hours of somewhere that sells out.","hours_source":"osm"},{"slug":"st-john-bakery","name":"St John Bakery","area":"St John's Estate","address":"72 Druid Street","station":"Bermondsey","walk":13,"lat":51.499837,"lng":-0.075585,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"website":null,"instagram":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/2096693607","types":["bread","viennoiserie"],"verdict":"Druid Street, under the arches, where the doughnut queue forms.","note":"St John's bakery supplies the restaurants and sells to whoever turns up. Saturday under the Bermondsey arches is the classic version of it. Thirteen minutes from the station, and busier than that implies.","hours_source":null},{"slug":"le-cafe-by-nicolas-rouzaud","name":"Le Caf\u00e9 by Nicolas Rouzaud","area":"Mayfair","address":"Burlington Arcade, 51 Piccadilly, W1J 0QJ","station":"Green Park","walk":5,"lat":51.509019,"lng":-0.140208,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"website":"https://www.cafenicolasrouzaud.com/","instagram":"lecafenicolasrouzaud","attrs":[],"osm":null,"types":["patisserie","viennoiserie"],"verdict":"Burlington Arcade, and the most expensive croissant you will consider buying.","note":"Rouzaud came from the Connaught and opened the arcade's first caf\u00e9 in 2026 \u2014 brioche \u00e0 t\u00eate, a short savoury menu, and the surroundings to match. Five minutes from Green Park. A treat rather than a habit.","hours_source":null},{"slug":"rinkoff-bakery","name":"Rinkoff Bakery","area":"Stepney","address":"224 Jubilee Street, E1 3BS","station":"Stepney Green","walk":8,"lat":51.519869,"lng":-0.052909,"hours":[[8.0,18.0],[8.0,18.0],[8.0,18.0],[8.0,18.0],[8.0,18.0],[8.0,18.0],[8.0,18.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Su 08:00-18:00","website":"https://www.rinkoffbakery.co.uk","instagram":"rinkoffsbakery","attrs":["outdoor"],"osm":"node/4306580170","types":["bread","patisserie"],"verdict":"Jubilee Street, five generations in, and inventor of the crodough.","note":"Rinkoff have been baking in the East End since 1911 and are entirely unsentimental about it. Eight till six, seven days. The old-school bread and the daft hybrid pastries sit side by side and both sell.","hours_source":"osm"},{"slug":"old-post-office-bakery","name":"Old Post Office Bakery","area":"Stockwell","address":"76 Landor Road, SW9 7ND","station":"Clapham North","walk":5,"lat":51.465787,"lng":-0.125679,"hours":[null,null,[7.0,15.0],[7.0,15.0],[7.0,15.0],[7.0,15.0],[7.0,15.0]],"hours_raw":"We-Su 07:00-15:00","website":"https://www.oldpostofficebakery.com","instagram":"oldpostofficebakery","attrs":[],"osm":"node/705256257","types":["bread"],"verdict":"The Landor Road original, organic since 1982.","note":"One of London's oldest organic bakeries, still in the old post office, still Wednesday to Sunday only. Seven in the morning to three. Five minutes from Clapham North and worth arranging a morning around.","hours_source":"osm"},{"slug":"st-john-bakery-the-borough","name":"St John Bakery","area":"The Borough","address":null,"station":"Borough","walk":1,"lat":51.501658,"lng":-0.093034,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"website":null,"instagram":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/11764334727","types":["bread","viennoiserie"],"verdict":"The Borough counter, a minute from the station.","note":"The convenient St John, as opposed to the atmospheric one under the arches. Same bread, same doughnuts, considerably less walking.","hours_source":null},{"slug":"pophams-victoria-park","name":"Pophams Victoria Park","area":"Victoria Park Village","address":"110a Lauriston Road, E9 7HA","station":"London Fields","walk":15,"lat":51.53835,"lng":-0.045261,"hours":[[7.5,16.0],[7.5,16.0],[7.5,16.0],[7.5,16.0],[7.5,16.0],[8.0,16.0],[8.5,16.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Fr 07:30-16:00; Sa 08:00-16:00; Su 08:30-16:00","website":"https://pophamsbakery.com/","instagram":"pophamsbakery","attrs":["outdoor"],"osm":"way/602278667","types":["viennoiserie"],"verdict":"Lauriston Road, and the calmer of the two Pophams.","note":"Victoria Park Village is a genuinely pleasant place to eat a pastry outdoors, and this is far enough from a station to stay local. Fifteen minutes from London Fields, or walk through the park.","hours_source":"osm"},{"slug":"little-bread-pedlar","name":"Little Bread Pedlar","area":"Waterloo","address":"20 Lower Marsh, SE1 7RJ","station":"Lambeth North","walk":3,"lat":51.50062,"lng":-0.113039,"hours":[[8.0,15.0],[8.0,15.0],[8.0,15.0],[8.0,15.0],[8.0,15.0],[9.0,16.0],[9.0,16.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Fr 08:00-15:00, Sa-Su 09:00-16:00","website":"https://www.lbpedlar.com","instagram":null,"attrs":["outdoor"],"osm":"node/863838548","types":["bread","viennoiserie"],"verdict":"Lower Marsh, and the best thing on a street of good things.","note":"Lower Marsh is Waterloo's one properly interesting street and Little Bread Pedlar anchors the food end of it. Eight till four weekdays, nine till four at weekends. Three minutes from Lambeth North.","hours_source":"osm"},{"slug":"happy-sky","name":"Happy Sky","area":"White City Estate","address":"94 Askew Road","station":"Stamford Brook","walk":15,"lat":51.503279,"lng":-0.243472,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"website":"https://www.happyskylondon.com/","instagram":"happyskybakery","attrs":[],"osm":"node/8863440378","types":["viennoiserie"],"verdict":"Askew Road, a long way west, and worth knowing about.","note":"The Shepherd's Bush end of the Happy Sky operation, in a stretch of W12 that rewards anyone prepared to walk. Fifteen minutes from Stamford Brook, which is the whole filter.","hours_source":null},{"slug":"rinkoff-s","name":"Rinkoff's","area":"Whitechapel","address":"79 Vallance Road, E1 5BS","station":"Whitechapel","walk":6,"lat":51.52198,"lng":-0.06453,"hours":[[7.0,17.0],[7.0,17.0],[7.0,17.0],[7.0,17.0],[7.0,17.0],null,null],"hours_raw":"Mo-Fr 07:00-17:00","website":"https://www.rinkoffbakery.co.uk/","instagram":"rinkoffsbakery","attrs":[],"osm":"way/261011817","types":["bread","patisserie"],"verdict":"Vallance Road, the older shop, weekday mornings.","note":"The original Rinkoff site, seven in the morning to five, closed at weekends. Whitechapel is six minutes away. This is the bakery the family built; Jubilee Street is where the crowds go.","hours_source":"osm"},{"slug":"konditor-cornwall-road","name":"Konditor","area":"Waterloo","address":"22 Cornwall Road, SE1 8TW","station":"Waterloo East","walk":2,"lat":51.504162,"lng":-0.110284,"hours":[[7.5,19.0],[7.5,19.0],[7.5,19.0],[7.5,19.0],[7.5,19.0],[8.0,18.0],[10.0,17.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Fr 07:30-19:00; Sa 08:00-18:00; Su 10:00-17:00","website":"https://konditor.co.uk/pages/cornwall-road","instagram":"konditorcakes","attrs":[],"osm":"way/940728861","types":["patisserie"],"verdict":"The original Konditor, still on the Waterloo side street where it started.","note":"Gerhard Jenne took on a small bakery on Cornwall Road in 1993 and this is still that shop, a few minutes behind the station and largely indifferent to it. Half seven to seven on weekdays, which makes it one of the few places near Waterloo where cake is a plausible thing to buy on the way home. Two minutes from Waterloo East. Not a bread proposition \u2014 the draw is the iced squares and the brownies.","hours_source":"web","hours_checked":"2026-08-31"},{"slug":"konditor-joiner-street","name":"Konditor","area":"London Bridge","address":"26 Joiner Street, SE1 9BZ","station":"London Bridge","walk":2,"lat":51.5053,"lng":-0.08675,"hours":[[7.5,19.5],[7.5,19.5],[7.5,19.5],[7.5,19.5],[7.5,19.5],[9.0,19.0],[10.0,19.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Fr 07:30-19:30; Sa 09:00-19:00; Su 10:00-19:00","website":"https://konditor.co.uk/pages/26-joiner-street","instagram":"konditorcakes","attrs":[],"osm":null,"types":["patisserie"],"verdict":"In the tiled passage under London Bridge, built for people with a train to catch.","note":"Joiner Street runs beneath the station and this counter is sized for the commute rather than for lingering. It keeps the longest hours of any Konditor \u2014 half seven to half seven on weekdays \u2014 and is the only one open all seven days. Two minutes from the platforms. Slices and brownies, not loaves.","hours_source":"web","hours_checked":"2026-08-31"},{"slug":"konditor-grays-inn-road","name":"Konditor","area":"Holborn","address":"46 Gray's Inn Road, WC1X 8LR","station":"Chancery Lane","walk":3,"lat":51.519653,"lng":-0.11189,"hours":[[8.0,18.0],[8.0,18.0],[8.0,18.0],[8.0,18.0],[8.0,18.0],null,null],"hours_raw":"Mo-Fr 08:00-18:00; Sa-Su off","website":"https://konditor.co.uk/pages/grays-inn-road","instagram":"konditorcakes","attrs":[],"osm":"node/4880158822","types":["patisserie"],"verdict":"Eight to six on weekdays, and shut precisely when the offices are.","note":"Gray's Inn Road empties at the weekend and this branch empties with it: Monday to Friday only, eight until six. It reopened in September 2026 after a refurbishment. Three minutes from Chancery Lane. Cake and brownies, as everywhere in the group.","hours_source":"web","hours_checked":"2026-08-31"},{"slug":"konditor-cullum-street","name":"Konditor","area":"Leadenhall Market","address":"15 Cullum Street, EC3M 7JJ","station":"Monument","walk":5,"lat":51.511789,"lng":-0.082132,"hours":[[8.0,18.5],[8.0,18.5],[8.0,18.5],[8.0,18.5],[8.0,18.5],null,null],"hours_raw":"Mo-Fr 08:00-18:30; Sa-Su off","website":"https://konditor.co.uk/pages/cullum-street","instagram":"konditorcakes","attrs":[],"osm":null,"types":["patisserie"],"verdict":"A City lunch-hour stop that has packed up before the weekend begins.","note":"Cullum Street is a narrow lane off Fenchurch Street, glass canopy over one end, and the shop keeps City hours to match: eight until half six, Monday to Friday, nothing at all on Saturday or Sunday. Five minutes from Monument. It is a cake counter and behaves like one.","hours_source":"web","hours_checked":"2026-08-31"},{"slug":"fortitude-bakehouse","name":"Fortitude Bakehouse","area":"Bloomsbury","address":"35 Colonnade, WC1","station":"Russell Square","walk":1,"lat":51.522839,"lng":-0.124203,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"website":"https://www.fortitudebakehouse.com/","instagram":"fortitudebakehouse","attrs":[],"osm":"node/5456244922","types":["bread","viennoiserie"],"verdict":"A cobbled back-alley bakery most people walk past the end of.","note":"Colonnade is a short cobbled cut-through behind Russell Square and Fortitude have been quietly baking at the end of it for years: sourdough, cardamom buns, morning buns, a few loaf cakes. A minute from the station and still somehow easy to miss. It shuts in the early afternoon and does not open on Sundays.","hours_source":null,"hours_checked":null},{"slug":"le-cafe-robuchon","name":"Le Caf\u00e9 Robuchon","area":"Mayfair","address":"82 Piccadilly, W1J 8JA","station":"Green Park","walk":1,"lat":51.50648,"lng":-0.14376,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"website":"https://robuchonlondon.co.uk/","instagram":"lecaferobuchonlondon","attrs":[],"osm":null,"types":["bread","viennoiserie","patisserie"],"verdict":"Robuchon on Piccadilly, and a pain au chocolat that earns the address.","note":"A caf\u00e9 counter carrying the Robuchon name, a minute from Green Park, with handmade breads and p\u00e2tisserie sitting alongside the coffee. The pain au chocolat is the reason to stop: properly laminated and unembarrassed about the butter, closer to a Paris standard than most of what London sells under the same name. Mayfair prices, as the address suggests.","hours_source":null,"hours_checked":null}]}