London bakeries: patties, breads, cakes and where to find them
Where to buy Jamaican patties, hardo bread, Turkish börek and baklava, West African cakes and everyday loaves across London. Every bakery with its own phone number to call ahead.
A lot of London's food actually starts at a small bakery: the patty you grab on the way to the bus, the hardo bread for Saturday, the cake somebody ordered a week out for a party. The trick with an independent bakery is knowing what it is built for before you walk in, and ringing ahead for anything that has to be made to order.
What each kind is best at
- Caribbean bakeries are the ones for beef and chicken patties, coco bread, hardo and hard dough bread, bun and cheese, and rum or black cake. The patties move fast and the best ones are gone by early afternoon.
- West African bakeries do meat pies, puff puff, chin chin and celebration cakes, and some bake fresh bread daily.
- Turkish and Middle Eastern bakeries cover börek, simit, baklava and fresh flatbread, often baked through the day.
- Everyday bakeries handle the loaves, rolls and slab cakes you pick up without ordering ahead.
Bakeries across London
In north and east London
Ordering a cake or a large order
For anything custom, ring the bakery directly, give the date, the size and the flavour, and ask how much notice they need and what the deposit is. Weekends and holidays fill first. The number on each page is the bakery's own, so you are talking to the people who will actually bake it.
Written by See The Smoke · kept current from the directory, last checked 2026-11-06
