The Best Baked Goods to Try in Putney
Saturday morning. The Thames is doing that glittery thing it does when the sun catches it just right, and you're standing on the high street with an hour to kill and a very specific craving. Not a supermarket croissant. Not a chain coffee-shop muffin wrapped in plastic. Something proper — made by hand, baked that morning, worth making a detour for. South West London has been quietly building one of the best independent bakery scenes in the city, and Putney sits right in the middle of it. From Wandsworth to Wimbledon, Battersea to Fulham, the neighbourhoods surrounding SW15 are flush with brilliant bakers doing genuinely interesting work. Here's where to find the best of it.
The Best Bakeries Near Putney Worth Seeking Out
1. Buns From Home — Hammersmith
King Street, Hammersmith, W6 9YE | Rating: 4.6 | Tue–Thu: 11am–8pm; Fri–Mon: 11am–7pm
Brothers Barney and Gabriel started baking out of lockdown necessity and ended up creating one of London's most genuinely loveable pastry brands. Their Hammersmith site brings the full arsenal to West London: cinnamon and cardamom croissant buns that smell like a Scandinavian bakery dream, double-baked pistachio frangipane that has no right to be as good as it is, and rotating seasonal flavours that give you a reason to keep coming back. Featured in the London On The Inside and canasta journal West London guides, this is the sort of place that turns a Tuesday afternoon errand into something much better.
2. Lockdown Bakehouse — Wandsworth
37 Old York Road, Wandsworth, SW18 1TG | Rating: 4.7 | Mon–Fri: 7am–3pm; Sat–Sun: 7:30am–3:30pm
This is where it all started. The original Lockdown Bakehouse opened as a pandemic act of community generosity — feeding local residents and NHS workers when it mattered most — and it never lost that ethos. Today the Old York Road site is a proper neighbourhood institution, with raspberry doughnuts, a deeply satisfying potato sourdough, and pies (steak and ale; mac and cheese) that deserve their own dedicated following. If you only make one stop in Wandsworth on a weekend morning, make it here.
3. Little Sourdough Kitchen — Fulham
237 Munster Road, Fulham, SW6 6BT | Rating: 4.5 | Daily: 7:30am–3:30pm
Munster Road isn't the sort of street that draws tourists, which is precisely why the locals who've found Little Sourdough Kitchen are so protective of it. A sourdough specialist in the truest sense, this small, intimate café produces naturally leavened loaves and croissants with the kind of quiet confidence that comes from really knowing what you're doing. The daily pastry selection is worth arriving early for. Recommended as Fulham's best sourdough specialist across multiple South West London guides, it's also just a very nice place to sit for a while.
Little Sourdough Kitchen on Facebook
4. Reemies — Chelsea
137 Fulham Road, Chelsea, SW3 6SD | Rating: 4.6 | Mon–Sat: 9am–6pm; Sun: 10am–6pm
The pretty pink and red storefront on Fulham Road opened in 2025 and has already earned its place as a neighbourhood landmark. Reemies made their name with banana bundt cakes — including a vegan version that doesn't ask you to make any compromises — and the full range of signature bakes draws visitors from well beyond Chelsea. Featured in the canasta journal West London bakery guide, this is a destination for anyone who takes their cake seriously, or who simply wants something beautiful to bring to a Sunday afternoon gathering.
5. Cavan Bakery — Wimbledon
143 Arthur Road, Wimbledon, SW19 8AB | Rating: 4.3 | Tue–Thu & Sat: 7am–3:30pm; Fri: 6:30am–2pm
Since 1929. Let that land for a moment. While trends have come and gone and entire bakery empires have risen and collapsed around it, the Cavan Bakery has been on Arthur Road, doing what it does. The specialist sourdough here carries the weight of nearly a century of family knowledge, and traditional baking methods that have been refined across four generations. This isn't a heritage brand or a nostalgic concept — it's simply one of London's oldest continuously operating independent bakeries, still baking with the same seriousness it always has.
6. Maison Bertaux — Wimbledon
Church Road, Wimbledon, SW19 5DQ | Rating: 4.5 | Daily: 9:30am–6pm
Maison Bertaux has been making proper French pastries in Soho since the 1870s, and the Wimbledon outpost carries that spirit south of the river with quiet confidence. Freshly made tarts, celebration cakes, and classic French patisserie craftsmanship, served to one of South West London's most discerning neighbourhoods. If you need a birthday cake that will genuinely impress, or simply a weekend tart that reminds you why the French take patisserie so seriously, this is where to come. Recommended as Wimbledon's best French bakery, and hard to argue with.
7. August Bakery — Battersea Rise
6 Battersea Rise, London, SW11 1ED | Rating: 4.9 | Tue–Fri: 7:30am–4pm; Sat–Mon: 8am–4pm
The story of August Bakery is the kind that makes you feel optimistic about food in London. Husband-and-wife team Harry Robins and Florrie Beard started delivering naturally leavened loaves by cargo bike from their Putney flat, built a following through sheer quality, and opened this bright, airy site on Battersea Rise in December 2024. It was named No. 1 in the British Baker Baker's Dozen for 2025 — an extraordinary achievement for a bakery barely open a year. The cinnamon buns are exceptional. The guest-bake collaborations with local producers keep things genuinely exciting. Weekend queues have already become part of the neighbourhood ritual, which tells you everything you need to know.
8. Zeit and Zaatar — Shepherd's Bush
Shepherd's Bush Market, London, W12 8PP | Rating: 4.6 | Mon–Sat: 8am–6pm; Sun: 8am–5pm
Something genuinely different from everything else on this list, and all the better for it. Zeit and Zaatar specialises in manaeesh — Levantine flatbreads pulled fresh from the oven and topped with za'atar, akkawi cheese, or spiced sujuk sausage. The sujuk and cheese version, with its deep maroon spiced meat and gooey molten cheese, is the one to order first. Tucked into Shepherd's Bush Market and featured in the Time Out West London guides, this is a reminder that London's bakery culture is wonderfully, irreducibly diverse.
What if Getting There Isn't an Option?
There's a particular kind of Sunday that doesn't lend itself to hopping on the Overground. The one where it's raining sideways and the idea of leaving the house before 10am is frankly unreasonable. Or the one where you have small children, or a houseful of guests, or simply a deep and legitimate desire to stay in your dressing gown for as long as legally permitted. The good news is that London's artisan food scene has been quietly evolving to meet you exactly where you are. A bread subscription or pastry subscription in the UK is no longer a compromise — it's increasingly the smarter choice, and the quality reaching doorsteps via weekend breakfast delivery in London has risen considerably in recent years.
What's driven this shift isn't just convenience — it's values. The best services operating in this space have moved toward sustainable food delivery in London as a genuine commitment, not a marketing line. Zero-waste baking models, bike delivery across inner London, recyclable packaging — these aren't add-ons. They're the architecture of a better way to do things. A breakfast delivery in London that arrives by bicycle before 9am on a Saturday morning, carrying sourdough baked to order that morning, is a meaningfully different proposition from anything that sat in a warehouse overnight.
Butter & Crust: Artisan Baking, Delivered to Your Door
If the bakeries above have given you a sense of what South West London's independent food scene can do at its best, then Butter & Crust is its natural extension into your home. Working with the finest local artisan producers in London, Butter & Crust delivers sourdough, pastries, and breakfast goods to your door by 9am every weekend — the sort of spread that turns an ordinary Saturday morning into something worth getting up for.
Deliveries across inner London are made by bicycle, in fully recyclable packaging, and everything is baked to order — which means zero food waste and nothing sitting around waiting for a customer. The subscription is genuinely flexible: pause it when you're away, skip a week, cancel without the usual rigmarole. Coverage currently spans most of London zones 1–3, with more areas being added regularly. If you've been thinking about a pastry subscription in the UK that actually reflects the quality of the city's best independent bakers, this is the one worth trying.
Find out more and start your subscription at butterandcrust.com.
Sources
- Buns From Home Hammersmith — Hammersmith, W6 9YE | bunsfromhome.com
- Lockdown Bakehouse Wandsworth — Wandsworth, SW18 1TG | lockdownbakehouse.com
- Little Sourdough Kitchen — Fulham, SW6 6BT | Facebook
- Reemies Chelsea — Chelsea, SW3 6SD | reemiescakes.com
- Cavan Bakery — Wimbledon, SW19 8AB | thecavanbakery.co.uk
- Maison Bertaux Wimbledon — Wimbledon, SW19 5DQ | maisonbertaux.com
- August Bakery — Battersea Rise, SW11 1ED | august-bakery.com
- Zeit and Zaatar Shepherd's Bush — Shepherd's Bush, W12 8PP | Facebook
Editorial references: London On The Inside West London guide; canasta journal West London bakery guide; Time Out West London guide; British Baker Baker's Dozen 2025; Shortlist best London bakeries; britbrief.co.uk best London bakeries; Hungry Soles best London bakeries.
