Bakery

• 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,

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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