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- Kuro Bagels is taking over from Kuro Eatery in Notting Hill
A few years back, the boutique group that is KURO in Notting Hill which has a coffee shop and bakery, opened its all-day diner called Kuro Eatery. It seemed a popular enough place, but clearly the duo behind it wanted more so they've closed it and are about to reopen it as a bagel shop. KURO Bagels is going to be serving "high-quality artisan bagels to-go", so it sounds more in the vein of nearby
... - Sourdough Sophia is heading to Highgate for her next bakery
Having started during lockdown in Crouch End and now with a fully fledged bakery there and in Islington, the North London baker Sophia Handschuh and her husband Jesse Sutton-jones are gearing up to open their third place.
The pair revealed the location of their next bakery in a cryptic post on Instagram, asking followers if they could work out where it was. And it took fans a few hours to track
... - Gail's expands to London train stations - at St Pancras and London Bridge
They're as sure a sign of an area's gentrification as the arrival of a Waitrose or M&S Food store and now the bakery behemoths that are Gail's are expanding to the city's train stations. Last week they opened their first branch in a travel hub, at St Pancras. And they're following that up by opening this week at London Bridge.
Gail's St Pancras is already open and Gail's London Bridge opens on 20
... - Happy Sky Bakery arrive in the West End with a new bakery off Oxford Street
Arriving with impeccable timing to cater to the crush that is going to be Oxford Street over the coming weeks, Japanese baking folk Happy Sky Bakery unveiled their brand new bakery over the weekend. This, their second place, is on Hanway Street which is, as they handily explain "a quiet little street tucked just behind the big Primark near Tottenham Court Road station."
"I can’t promise everything will be
... - Sablé are serving up squidgy NYC-style cookies in Fulham
It's been quite the week for new bakeries opening around town and another interesting one that just caught our eye is Sablé. This is one of those businesses that originally started life as a delivery service, but demand has been such that they've now grown into a fully-fledged bakery.
The duo behind the opening are Ratika Arora, a self-taught baker who started baking during lockdown and Andrew Scott, alas not the Hot Priest but a
... - Boulangerie Pierre Alix is opening a second bakery, this time on Holloway Road
If you've been up to Muswell Hill recently you might have spotted the queues outside artisan bakery Boulangerie Pierre Alix. We joined the patisserie-loving hordes one weekend and were blown away by how good their cakes (and bread) were. So it's good news all round for North London carb addicts as the baker is about to open his second place.
The doors to the next bakery are about to be flung open on
... - Mahali bakery sees two top bakers opening in Battersea
Mahali and Co have been winning a lot of fans over the past few years as both a bakery delivery and catering company, but now they've landed their own place in Battersea.
The duo behind it are Ru-Yan Foong and Miguel Jocson, both pastry chefs who trained in Sydney, who set up Mahali and Co back in 2019. Ru-Yan's CV includes working for Ottolenghi and The Fat Duck while Miguel was head pastry chef at The
... - Basket Press Wines kick off a wine residency at Islington's Quince Bakery
If the enticing cakes and pastries at Quince Bakery weren't enough to prompt a visit, the arrival of a new wine bar residency at the bakery is a further reason to go. Basket Press Wines is an importer of low-intervention wines and ciders from Central and Eastern Europe. Run by husband and wife team Jiri Majerik and Zainab Majeriková, they're now popping up every weekend at Quince.
Zainab used to be head
... - Margot Bakery has opened a second branch, this time in Highgate
North London baker Michelle Eshkeri is building a little bakery empire for herself. She started with Margot in East Finchley where she became known for her sourdough bread and patisserie prowess. Two years ago she followed that up with the Holloway Model Bakery just off Holloway Road. And now, very under the radar, she's opened a third place, this time Margot 2.0, in Highgate.
The new bakery is on Archway Road, tucked in
... - It's Bagels pick Soho for their next opening
23/10/24 - updated with the opening date
Looks like Londoners' appetites for NYC-style bagels are firmly in the ascendant as news reaches us that the super popular bagel bakery It's Bagels is now heading into the West End.
The bakery, which debuted in Primrose Hill in 2023, opened a second branch this summer in Notting Hill which was also a big hit. So the idea that they are also about to take Soho by storm
... - Don't Tell Dad is a new combo bakery/restaurant in Queen's Park
16/12/24 - Updated with bakery launch details
One of the founders of Coco di Mama, Daniel Land, is opening a combo bakery/restaurant Don't Tell Dad in Queen's Park. Coming to Lonsdale Road, the strip of Queens Park where you'll find its best restaurants and bars, it'll be a bakery in the day and shift to a restaurant in the evening.
Taking the bakery
... - Astrid Bakery prepares for expansion in Muswell Hill
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If you're a resident of Muswell Hill you can't have failed to notice the perma queues outside Astrid Bakery. Six months after the bakery opened it continued to sell out every day. Clearly, there was room to expand and the felicitous arrival on the market of a new property down the road means this is happening right now.
Astrid owner Charlotte O'Kelly has just taken
... - Moi et Toi is a London meets Paris bakery opening up in Notting Hill's Empire Empire
Now this is a clever idea. If your restaurant is more of a dinner place but you want to make the space pay for itself during the day, then why not team up with a cafe/bakery? That's what Empire Empire's owner Harneet Baweja is about to do. But the restaurateur hasn't chosen just any old bakery to team up with, he's joining forces with Edward Delling Williams, founder of super hip Parisian bistro Le Grand Bain and bakery Le
... - London’s first ever ride-through bakery is coming, thanks to Lime
Hang onto your handlebars, there’s a cycle-through bakery coming to Shoreditch this weekend only. And it’s free!
Whether you’re a bicycle owner or nay, this pastry-focused pop-up is coming to you courtesy of Lime Bikes (yes, they want to call it a ‘Lime-thru Bakery’), so in addition to free pastries and coffee, you’ll get a complimentary 15-minute ride on a Lime
... - Panadera are opening a second bakery, next to Selfridges
3/9/24 - updated with the opening date
They're one of the best bakeries in London, so news that Filipino bakery Panadera was expanding was always going to be of interest. Now we know where they're opening their second place - right around the corner from Selfridges. The new home on Picton Place puts
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