Bakery

• Zeit für Brot German bakery has landed in London

  

  Somewhat out of the blue and with little fanfare, a German bakery and cafe has made its debut in London. Zeit für Brot (translated as "time for bread") has a number of bakeries across Germany. Over here, they've settled in Islington for their first UK opening, taking on a big corner site on the junction between Islington High Street and Pentonville Street in Angel.

  A quick visit reveals it to be an

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• E5 bakehouse is opening at the new V&E East Storehouse in Stratford

  

  The new Stratford Cross development is resulting in adding some very interesting new food options to the area. We've recently had the opening of Templar from the

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• New Chelsea bakery Reemies is all about the banana bundt

  

  Reemies, by Reem Abu Samra, started life as a cake delivery business and over the years has found itself a huge following, Now, the first Reemies bakery is getting ready to open.

  The cake business started back in 2018 with Reem originally baking cakes in her own flat and gradually expanding to a larger kitchen in Vauxhall and a much bigger business. Over that period she also built up

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• Fink's are opening a bakery on Blackstock Road

  

  Last year, eagle-eyed fans of North London cafe group Fink's spotted that they'd taken over a cafe site on Blackstock Road. However, dreams of a new space to sit in were dashed when they revealed they were simply using the space as a prep kitchen. But now their plans have changed. They've just launched a crowdfunder to help them transform the space into a "full-scale bakery. This will allow us to add freshly baked bread and

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• Hello JoJo bakery and restaurant takes over from Forza Win in Camberwell

  

  As one door closes, another opens. And while fans of Forza Win in Camberwell may be reeling from the announcement last week of its imminent closure, the good news is that there's a rather interesting business already lining up to take its place.

  Two locals, Jo Lavender and Rob Newlan, are the brains behind hello JoJo and they're all about bringing the feelgood factor to the area. To that end their all day bakery and

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• Claridge's Bakery sees world class baker Richard Hart doing British bakes in London

  

  London bakery nerd alert - one of the world's best bakers is coming to town. Richard Hart hails from London but made his name far from home having headed up the famous Tartine in San Francisco for seven years before co-founding Copenhagen bakery Hart Bagery with none other than René Redzepi of Noma. Now he's signed up to be the executive baker and creative director at Claridge's Bakery.

  The hotel's new

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• London's best bakeries - where to buy bread, pastries, buns and more...

  

  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. 

• Fastelavn's carnival of cream buns hits Ole & Steen

  

  If you've never tried a Fastelavn Festival Bun, or are an expat Dane wanting a hit of home, then this month Danish bakers Ole & Steen are the place to go.

• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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