London's Best Bakeries
Warm bread rolls, plaited loaves, hot buns, delicate pastries, pretty cupcakes, showstopper desserts. Whatever tantalising treat you're in the mood for, here are the best bakeries that London has to offer.
Hummingbird Bakery:
This bakery's gone from specialist W11 American-style cupcake merchants to a reliable chain, enabling your red velvet habit from branches across London. It'd be an amateur mistake to stick to just their well-trodden cupcake path, though. Do not ignore the vital work they're doing in the field of actual cake: to wit, their Mile High Chocolate Salted Caramel and their Devil's Food Chocolate cakes. Queue for a slice at one of their shops or drum up a birthday-shaped excuse to order an enormous full cake online.
47 Old Brompton Road, SW7 | 155a Wardour Street, W1F | 133 Portobello Road, W11 | 11 Frying Pan Alley, E1 | 405 The Angel Building, EC1V
Belle Epoque:
The cakes at this Islington patisserie are artistic and complicated, covered in curls of cream or fragments of meringue or whirls of chocolate. The cakes are grand but the patisserie is cosy and friendly -- so you can enjoy the high art éclairs of London's most mind-blowingly expensive venues without the formality. Their signature cake, originally created by owner Eric Rousseau for his wife Hulya, is an elaborate confection of flavours and textures. It’s made from orange crème brûlée, Valhrona dark chocolate mousse, praline, and chocolate sponge.
262 Upper Street, N1
17-21 Elizabeth St, SW1W 9RP
Hummingbird Bakery:
This bakery's gone from specialist W11 American-style cupcake merchants to a reliable chain, enabling your red velvet habit from branches across London. It'd be an amateur mistake to stick to just their well-trodden cupcake path, though. Do not ignore the vital work they're doing in the field of actual cake: to wit, their Mile High Chocolate Salted Caramel and their Devil's Food Chocolate cakes. Queue for a slice at one of their shops or drum up a birthday-shaped excuse to order an enormous full cake online.
47 Old Brompton Road, SW7 | 155a Wardour Street, W1F | 133 Portobello Road, W11 | 11 Frying Pan Alley, E1 | 405 The Angel Building, EC1V
Belle Epoque:
The cakes at this Islington patisserie are artistic and complicated, covered in curls of cream or fragments of meringue or whirls of chocolate. The cakes are grand but the patisserie is cosy and friendly -- so you can enjoy the high art éclairs of London's most mind-blowingly expensive venues without the formality. Their signature cake, originally created by owner Eric Rousseau for his wife Hulya, is an elaborate confection of flavours and textures. It’s made from orange crème brûlée, Valhrona dark chocolate mousse, praline, and chocolate sponge.
262 Upper Street, N1
Dominique Ansel:
French chef Dominique Ansel’s Belgravia bakery - made all the more inviting by its beautiful open-air jasmine terrace for summer - brings the infamous croissant-donut hybrid, the Cronut, across the Atlantic following its success in the original New York bakery. The Cronut attracted queues around the corner before the Elizabeth Street opening in September. Pop in for an afternoon cookie dough shot glass filled with vanilla milk, and Ansel’s take on the British Eton mess.
17-21 Elizabeth St, SW1W 9RP
Nordic Bakery:
They may be most famous for their cinnamon buns (and rightly so) but the coffee and cakes at this Scandinavian café in the heart of Central London are also well worth a mention - and a taste, of course. The new Covent Garden locale is even bigger and better, too.
14A Golden Square, W1F 9JG; 55 Neal Street, Seven Dials, WC2H 9PJ
Little Bread Pedlar:
The Little Bread Pedlar's Bermondsey base is only open to the public on Saturdays, but they supply a wide range of cafés and shops across London so there are plenty of places to get your hands on their delicious pastries, cakes, brioches, brownies and more.
Arch 4-6, Spa Business Park, Dockley Road SE16 3FJ
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