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Bakery
- Layers Bakery opens in E14 with ex-Hedone team in charge
If your cravings lean towards the freshly baked kind, then you might want to consider joining the queue outside Layers Bakery, which opened a store and cafe down by the waterfront on the Goodluck Hope island in East London last month. It joins a hub of other creative outlets and independent businesses on the industrial-inspired riverside development on the Leamouth Peninsula, where you can see everything from the English National
... - Quince Bakery prepares to open in Islington
Updated 8/2/24 with opening date
Lucky Islington residents will have a very interesting new bakery on their doorstep. Quince Bakery is the brainchild of baker Anna Higham. She ran the bakery at Flor before becoming Executive Pastry Chef at The River Café. So it's fair to say she knows a thing or two about baked goods.
As for the bread she'll be baking, it'll be sourdough breads
... - Philippe Conticini are bringing their giant croissants to Islington
If, like us, you live around Islington and have been wondering what's taking over the big site that used to be Rudy's Vegan Diner then wonder no more. Getting ready to open there is Philippe Conticini.
If that name sounds familiar, it's because you might have come across his work at the café in South Kensington or Camden's Buck Street Market. Or perhaps it's because
... - Chai Guys Bakehouse will serve up fusion pastries on Portobello Road
Updated 9/11/23 with menu details and new opening date
Over the past few years, Abhilash Jobanputra and Gabriel Unger have built up a loyal following for their Chai Guys stalls in places like Seven Dials Market, Covent Garden and Old Spitalfields Market. But this year marks the time when they switched it up as the pair are opening a bakery cafe in Notting Hill.
Their bakehouse on Portobello Road,
... - Tarn Bakery sees ex-Pophams and Flor baker opening on the Archway/Highgate border
Lucky North Londoners are about to get a hot new bakery opening in their neighbourhood. Tarn Bakery is currently crowdfunding to open just off the Parkland Walk in the bit where Archway hits Highgate, taking over the old Trattoria Terra space.
The folk behind it are Florin Grama and Felix Ortona Coles who met while working at St Barts restaurant in Smithfield. Florin is the baker with a career that includes time at
... - Maya's Bakehouse sees local baker serving up sourdough and Basque cheesecake to Tulse Hill
If there's anything positive that could be said to have come from Covid and lockdown it's the number of small businesses that took the challenge presented by those dark months and turned it into something good. Maya's Bakehouse is one such endeavour. Baker Maya Manwaring had trained up at the prestigious Ballymaloe Cookery School and started baking sourdough and buns during the pandemic.
"I was home all day
... - Kayu Bakehouse is coming to London
8/9/23 - updated with more details about the London launch
Following a bakery that's come to London via Hong Kong, now here's another which has come via Dubai, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi.
Kayu Bakehouse dubs itself an "artisan dessert boutique" specialising in French desserts. It comes
... - The French Market hit up Finsbury Park for their next bakery
23/8/23 - updated with the opening date
The team behind Tufnell Park's Authentique Epicerie & Bar and Bakery and the French Market in Whetstone are spreading their wings. The next stop on their expansion plans is Finsbury Park where they've taken
... - It's Bagels is going to serve up NYC-style bagels in Primrose Hill
24/8/23 - updated with the opening date
Last summer we brought you news of a special menu operating at Caravan's roastery in Islington. It was a collaboration between New York fashion photographer Dan Martensen (recent commissions have included Julianne Moore and Winona Ryder) with
... - Hong Kong's 'most chocolatey' chocolate cake creators 404 Bakery have arrived in London
We do enjoy a bit of culinary grandstanding here at Hot Dinners and when someone arrives in this city promising to serve up the best chocolate cake we've ever had in our lives then we sit up and take note.
404 Bakery comes from a couple of Hong Kong bakers who took their home city by storm when they set up an online bakery driven by their obsession with chocolate cakes. However the bakery had to close when they decided,
... - Get Baked, Leeds’ cult bakery, comes to Islington’s Neighbourhood restaurant
There’s a new dessert offering at Islington’s Neighbourhood restaurant and it comes courtesy of Leeds’ famed Get Baked bakery.
If the name rings bells, you may recall its rise to fame in late 2021, thanks to ‘Sprinklegate’, where the Trading Standards shut down baker Rich Myers’ use of US-imported sprinkles, as they contained the red food colouring E127, which is banned in the UK apart from use in cocktail cherries and
... - Natoora are opening Alma bakery in Bermondsey with award-winning New Orleans baker Graison Gill
We're always interested in anything Natoora are up to, so news that they're getting ready to open a flour mill and bakery down by Maltby Street Market obviously pricked our interest. Alma sees the high-end greengrocer teaming up with James Beard finalist Graison Gill who was behind the award-winning Bellegarde Bakery in New Orleans.
Together they have a mission that they state is all about reinstating "the integrity
... - Eric's is ex-Flor baker Helen Evans' own bakery in East Dulwich
Updated 22/3/23 with the opening date
Earlier this year, the end finally came for Flor. It had previously been a restaurant, then carried on the bakery in Bermondsey before they called time on that too. While Flor was running, their head baker Helen Evans picked up a stellar reputation and now she's getting ready to open her own bakery.
Called Eric's Bakery Helen
... - Chestnut Bakery Pimlico
Top bakery and cafe n Pimlico
- Forno, a new bakery from the founder of Ombra, is opening in Hackney
15/3/22 - updated with the opening date
As thoughts increasingly turn to comfort food, take heart in the knowledge there’s a new bakery, deli and pastificio on its way, and it’s all thanks to Ombra head chef and owner Mitshel Ibrahim. Ombra, which opened more than 11 years ago in Hackney, steadily gained an obsessive following for the quality of its Italian food and especially its innovative pivots during
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