Two Magpies

 The Two Magpies Bakery in Southwold combines unpretentious food and signage with great home-baking.

Deliciously Dorset

 Fabulous Leakers Bakery in Bridport with its Jurassic Foot bread and Cheese, Chilli and Beer bread.

 Cheese & Cider Bread

 Jurassic Slice wholemeal bar cake with caramel, choc chunks, apricots and dates

 Deliciously Dorset on the Jurassic coast

Brilliant Balthazar

Great sandwiches at the New York-inspired Balthazar Boulangerie, Covent Garden.

Provencal tuna on potato and onion bread.

 'Tatinez' Montgomery cheddar, red onion marmalade on Pain de Seigle

 Bayonne ham and Gruyere on demi baguettes

More photos of their cakes, quiche and salads to come.

The Future?

At the end of our London Cafe Tours we are often asked what is the future for cafe design if now it is all about the industrial, retro, natural, recycled, comfortably worn look.  I asked the knowledgeable boss of Matthew Algie coffee's Irish business Lachlan MacGillivray his thoughts and he quoted two examples:

Baker D ChiricoMelbourne Bakery Starbucks Tokyo 

Pop Up at Fortnums

 Fortnum & Mason have a pop up British Bakery cafe on their first floor.

Mark Hix's shortbread, garibaldi biscuits and more are on until 10th February.

 The Torta Di Ricotta cake with warm chocolate sauce is proving a winner.

 It sounds as if a fortnightly trip to Fortnums will be required until April.

Cakehole in the Wall

Guest Spot

Sarah Heward, owner of the Real Food Cafe in Tyndrum, reports on a cupcake-in-the-wall machine in Glasgow.  The Bakery ATM by Bradfords Bakers sells flavours Irn-Bru and Malteser Mint Medley at £2.50 a time.

Not a Cookery School

The School of Artisan Food is part of the Welbeck Estate in Nottinghamshire - superbly equipped and their (over-subscribed) bakery course appeals greatly.

 The estate's Farm Shop benefits from great bread and a local cheese - Stichelton

The Limehouse Cafe also appeals

Jamie's Muffallettas

Jamie's Bakery at Gatwick North Terminal

 Piles of bread and dough emphasise the product

Muffalettas are sandwiches made of bread similar to focaccia

Pride of Plymouth

I am a huge fan of the Town Mill Bakery in Lyme Regis and they now have an off shoot - the Royal William Bakery - in the Royal William Yard, Plymouth.  Fabulous freshly-baked items in unpretentious surroundings.

How it works plus the wooden 'plates'

Bakery equipment and production is all on show

Bench seating is planks mounted on steel girders

Napkins=paper roll; butter in a big bowl; home-made peanut butter

Poilâne the Baker

Named rolls (at £3.05 each) and decorated loaves at Poilâne the baker's only UK store in Elizabeth Street, London.  Famous for their sourdough and wood-fired ovens.

The Hungry Guest

Petworth, West Sussex has the rather good Hungry Guest bakery, food shop and cafe

http://thehungryguest.com/The_Hungry_Guest/Welcome.html

 

Freshly Baked

Benugo in Clerkenwell with "All our products have been freshly baked this morning in our Bakery"

Basket of 4 types of sandwiches plus prominent bake off oven clearly in use

Learn To Bake Like A Pro

Anthony's basement piazza in Leeds' Corn Exchange features lots of alcoves with a culinary surprise in each - a working bakery being just one.  The 'Learn To Bake Like a Pro' course especially appealed.

Fresh Baked

London-based Abokado don't want us to overlook their bake-off oven!

Fortunate Falmouth

Stones bakery -sadly no cafe - in Falmouth.





All the right ingredients - Shipton Mill flour on the back display, working baker at the back of the shop, great display plus superb tasting bakery goods.

Grocer Deli Bakery Cafe

Melrose & Morgan in north London. Kitchen and storage area right in front of you. Product fresh from the ovens displayed on a simple wooden table.  One of our favourites.