Desserts & Gelato

The sweet course as a destination: gelato and ice cream, cakes and patisserie, chocolate, and the dessert bars where pudding is the whole point. Bread and the morning are next door, in Bakeries.

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Violet Cakes

Claire Ptak's corner bakery, and the cake the Sussexes were married with.

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Claire Ptak cooked at Chez Panisse in Berkeley before opening this on a Hackney corner, and the Californian habit came with her: organic and seasonal first, sugar second, so the cakes taste of the fruit rather than the icing. Madagascan vanilla, cane molasses, whatever the month has.

She made the lemon and elderflower cake for Harry and Meghan's wedding in 2018, which is the thing everyone knows, but the reason to come is the everyday counter - the buttermilk cake, the brownies, the whole-fruit tarts - eaten at one of the few seats by the window.

Where
47 Wilton Way, E8 3ED
Nearest station
Hackney Downs · 5 min walk

Hours

Monday09:00 – 17:00
Tuesday09:00 – 17:00
Wednesday09:00 – 17:00
Thursday09:00 – 17:00
Friday09:00 – 17:00
Saturday09:00 – 17:00
SundayClosed

Hours from the page that lists them, checked 8 September 2026.

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