Bakery

Three years after they opened their first bagel shop in Primrose Hill in 2023, the NYC-inspired bakery is expanding its North London footprint by opening in Hampstead. They'll hit up the high street there at the end of the summer.

As per their other three bakeries, their newest opening will serve a combination of grab-and-go bagels along with a mix of unfilled bagels topped with poppy or sesame seeds, garlic, onion, ‘everything,’ or just plain.

"We want to be the place people stop before a walk on the Heath, before school drop-off, or before a picnic on a sunny weekend,"

Listening bars are all the rage right now, but what about listening bakeries? Well, Muswell Hill now has a genre-defining new bakery bringing together top-notch viennoiserie and hi-fi vinyl culture. Turntable Bakery opened last weekend, and both the counter full of bakes and curated soundtrack proved to be a big hit with locals who queued around the block ahead of opening in order to get a first taste of the food, music and vibes.

The story behind Turntable Bakery is a familiar one: Anca Zsifkov-Gavra was made redundant from her corporate job during the pandemic and started

6/7/26 - updated with the opening date

They're one of the most popular bakeries in London, beloved as much for their idiosyncratic take on croissants as for their innovative collab bakes. They even picked up London Bakery of the Year at the 2025 National Bakery Awards. So it stands to reason that queer-owned TOAD Bakery would be looking to expand.

All of this is good news for Deptford folks who are about to get a TOAD Bakery in their neck of the woods. For their second bakery, owners Rebecca Spaven and Oliver Costello have picked a former rectory on the high

As Londoners in the know understand, if you want to try some of the really interesting new Asian food in town, you need to head over to London's emerging Chinatown in Bloomsbury. Which makes it the perfect spot for a new bakery to open its doors.

Rise & Fold comes from Chin Teow, the man behind dessert and matcha house brand Tsujiri. As he explained to Hot Dinners, "Rise & Fold isn’t about opening just another bakery. London already has plenty of excellent bakeries. What we felt was missing was a place that celebrates the exciting bakery culture emerging across Asia, while

Danish bakery and cafe Ole and Steen are celebrating summer in a very Danish way, with Sommer Like a Dane, and they're giving away a trip to Copenhagen as part of the celebrations.  

If you love the idea of trying new baked goods, but are a wee bit on the lazy side in terms of travelling across London to get them, then the coming month will see four hot London bakeries descending on Highbury.

Highbury Barn coffee shop Profile is welcoming in a different guest bakery every weekend in June, with some of the hottest bakers in town getting involved. They're promising "a rotating selection of pastries, bakes, and special releases".

The four bakeries involved are Walthamstow's Suba (6/7 June), Hackney's Forno (13/14 June), roaming bakery Tabula (20/21 June)

With perfect timing for the current hot weather, a pop-up bakery is opening its doors in East London for the weekend, serving up a range of limited-edition cinnamon rolls in a collaboration with Magnum.

The Magnum After Hours bakery is an evening-only affair, which has taken over the Roll Boys bakery for the next two nights. It's going to be serving up three limited-edition Magnum Bonbon x Roll Boys cinnamon rolls:

• Milk Chocolate & Cherry
• White Chocolate & Cookies
• Gold Caramel Billionaire

"From the second the idea of

Islington has its fair share of bakeries, from Pophams to Sourdough Sophia, but there seems to be no end of demand for them. And, speaking as an Islington resident, classic French bakeries aren't particularly well represented. So we're welcoming the news that Authentique are opening in Camden Passage. 

Taking over the space that used to be The Passage Pantry, the latest Authentique (you'll also find them in Tufnell Park and Finsbury Park) will be open as a cafe and bakery. So if you've been looking for a truly great French baguette in Islington, this should be your new go-to

Lockdown Bakehouse only started in 2020, but they're already getting ready to open their sixth bakery, this time in Putney. 

As the name suggests, they originally started life during the lockdown, coming from the same team behind MyPie, who pivoted and started using their kitchen for different baked goods. Since then, they've opened cafes in Wandsworth, Barnes, Clapham, Earlsfield and Raynes Park, with this latest continuing their march across South-West London. 

At the latest cafe, you can expect the same range of breads and pastries that they serve in the others. So that

London's bakery scene is as hot as its ovens. Whether you're after the best sourdough, seasonal patisserie or inspired cakes and pies, here's our pick of the very best independent bakeries in town. 

It's been 30 years since Magnolia Bakery first opened in New York. It was catapulted to fame after appearing in Sex and the City a few years later and is still something of a pilgrimage for anyone visiting New York for the first time. But now you don't even have to do that, as the bakery is coming to London - kind of. 

As the Chelsea Flower Show kicks off, the courtyard of The OWO is to be festooned with flowers and its courtyard spot Cafe Ciel is taking the opportunity for a Magnolia Bakery team-up. They'll have a special kiosk in the courtyard where they'll be selling Magnolia's

We love a single-item shop as much as the next food-obsessed person in London, so the news that the bakery specialising only in Basque cheesecakes is opening in our neck of the woods (ish) is a moment of joy. La Maritxu first opened in Connaught Village back in 2021 and, since then, has branched out to Greenwich and Soho.

Now the group are heading to North London, opening up in Coal Drops Yard behind King's Cross station. Here they're opening a cafe and bakery so you can also sit in to enjoy cakes, coffee and matcha. If you haven't been before, La Maritxu sells those baked Basque

Updated 22/4/26 with opening date

Londoners' capacity to be excited by the arrival of a new bakery knows no bounds, so the arrival of a new one in Bethnal Green should be of interest. This will be the third opening by Burnt, a neighbourhood cafe and restaurant with branches in Shepherd's Bush and Bloomsbury. But this, their first East London venture, will also feature its own in-house bakery.

The bakery addition will mean that not only will East London folk be able to enjoy their popular pistachio croissant, but a whole load more bakes, including a rhubarb and

Updated 8/4/26 with opening date

If there's one thing we love here at Hot Dinners, it's a new Chinese or Japanese bakery. So we're delighted to bring you news of a hot new opening coming to Marylebone soon. Cantoast Bakery have been popping up all over London for the past couple of years. Behind the bakery is talented baker Haydon Wong, whose CV includes time spent at Bao, as a research and development chef at Dumpling Shack and, most recently, as a baker at Forno in Hackney. He's joined by pastry chef Natalie Tj, who's worked at the Hotel Lutetia in Paris and Arome in

If you love the seasonal delights of hot cross buns then now is your time. We've picked some of the best in London along with a selection of hot cross bun-flavoured treats too.