Bakery

• Toklas brings the Med to the Strand (plus a new bakery too)

  

  Updated 18/11/21 with bakery opening date

  A new Mediterranean restaurant (and bakery) is coming to the Strand, landing at the 180 Strand building (which is also where the latest Soho House is). 

  Toklas' chef, Martyn Lyons, has impressive credentials, having

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• Jolene neighbourhood bakeries to open in Angel, Shoreditch and Hackney

  

  Updated 4/10/21 with opening dates

  Jolene Bakery and its offshoot Big Jo have been a huge success story of the past few years - you only have to see the queues snaking down from both during lockdown to know that.

  They have three new openings planned for this year, two of which they have now opened. The first was in the summer, opening in Shoreditch on Redchurch Street and

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• The Dusty Knuckle are opening a bakery and pizza restaurant on Green Lanes

  

  They've played an immense game during lockdown with their milk float deliveries and more. Now Dalston bakery The Dusty Knuckle have their sights set on a new place on Green Lanes.

• London's best cookie deliveries

  

  Whether you're treating yourself or sending them as a present, these London cookie delivery companies are sending out the best baked goods around.

• Chestnut Bakery in Belgravia opens with a dream team of bakers

  

  Over in Belgravia a new bakery opened its doors for the first time this weekend. But it seems that Chestnut Bakery - which has taken on the old Dominique Ansel site - is trying to do things a little differently. They set out their stall as "celebrating international baking traditions in the golden age of breadmaking."

  They've certainly assembled an impressive team to help them do that. Senior Baker, Mauro Gizick from

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• The French Market brings patisserie and wine to Whetstone

  

  Three years after opening their successful French wine shop and deli in Tufnell Park, the team behind Authentique Epicerie & Bar have opened a second French food spot in North London.

  The French Market sees owners Alexandre, Amaury & Matthieu, who met having worked at various London wine merchants, this

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• Panadera is a Kentish Town bakery from the people behind Mamasons

   

  Mamasons are best known for their Filipino “dirty" ice cream stores (that's the nickname used to describe ice cream made in a steel drum with ice and salt). But now they're changing gear for their new place, a bakery in Kentish Town, Panadera, which has opened two doors down from their current spot.

  Selling an array of Filipino baked goods, you can expect pandesal

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• London's new food and drink delivery-only businesses

  

  London's food and drink delivery scene has never been more innovative or interesting. We pick out some of the city's new delivery-only businesses you should know about.

• Where to find a Japanese bakery in London

  

  If Great British Bake Off's Japanese Week made you actually want to learn more about the country's authentic cakes, breads and pastries then here's where to find the best Japanese bakeries in London.

• Floozie Cookie pops up in Covent Garden from ex-Claridge's pastry chef

  

  If there's one thing we know makes 2020 better, it's baked goods. So news of a three-month cookie popup in Covent Garden is already making up happy.

  Floozie Cookie is a passion project by pastry chef Kimberly Lin who's worked everywhere from Claridge’s and The Savoy to Dominique Ansel Bakery. "The way you hold a cookie before that first bite, the variety of texture, the temperature, it can bring such joy,” explains

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• Sourdough Sophia bakery in Crouch End is the culmination of a lockdown dream

  

  Who among us will be able to forget the great sourdough craze of the first Covid Lockdown? How could you call yourself a real foodie if you weren't faffing around with starters and whatnot while confined to your home?

  Up in Crouch End, one couple who spent the lockdown supplying sourdough out of their own kitchen to the local area are now parlaying their kitchen table business into a fully-fledged

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• The Duke Bakery at this Islington organic pub is raising funds for StreetSmart

  

  If the onslaught of emosh Christmas ads has already got you sobbing into your laptop, then this story from a London pub may push you over the top.

  The Duke of Cambridge organic pub in Islington is today launching an initiative to help StreetSmart - the UK charity for the homeless that normally gets its money from a donation added onto restaurant bills and whose funds have been decimated by the lockdown.

  The

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• Bakery deliveries - the best places delivering bread and pastries in London

  

  Searching for sourdough? On a quest for cakes? Or desperately seeking scones? We've rounded up bakers and bread makers all doing delivery across the city. 

• Arôme bakery is opening its first permanent spot in Covent Garden

  

  Fans of patisserie Arôme, which popped up for a while in Soho, will be pleased to hear that the artisan bakery is about to get its first permanent spot.

  They'll be opening next month in The Yards development in Covent Garden. The huge new 2,000 sq ft store on Mercer street will have a glass wall into its open kitchen, showing you the patisserie chefs at work.

  On the menu you'll find their signature cakes and pastries,

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• St John Bakery comes to Borough with Eccles cakes, doughnuts & wine

  

  The great St John Bakery continues to very slowly expand across London, amazing doughnuts in tow. 

  The latest bakery of theirs is coming to London Bridge and will be supplied with baked goods from their main bakery in Bermondsey, just down the road. So you'll find the doughnuts there (and you can bulk order in advance) as well as their legendary Eccles cakes, chocolate brownies, pastries and plenty

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