The Best Bakeries in Putney

The Best Bakeries in Putney

The Best Bakeries in Putney

Saturday morning in Putney has a particular quality to it. The river catches the light just so, joggers thread past the boathouses, and if you know where to look — or rather, where to smell — there's the unmistakable warm exhale of a bakery doing serious work. Whether you're after a loaf that took three days to make, a cinnamon bun that ruins all other cinnamon buns for you, or a flatbread that transports you somewhere entirely different, the neighbourhoods surrounding Putney are quietly home to some of the most exciting baking in South West London. The city's appetite for genuinely good bread has never been stronger, and the bakers are keeping pace. Here's where to find them.

The Best Bakeries Near Putney

1. Buns From Home — Hammersmith

Location: 214 King Street, Hammersmith, W6 9YE | Nearest station: Hammersmith (tube) | Rating: 4.6 (Google) | Hours: Tue–Thu 11am–8pm; Fri–Mon 11am–7pm

Brothers Barney and Gabriel started baking during lockdown and delivering around London by bike — which, given where they've ended up, is one of the great pandemic origin stories. Their Hammersmith site is the West London outpost of what has quietly become a multi-location operation, and the buns are as good as the hype insists. The cardamom and cinnamon versions hit that precise frequency between comfort and complexity, and the double-baked pistachio frangipane is the kind of thing you think about on the way home. Seasonal specials, including the tiramisu bun, keep the rotation fresh and the queues reliably present. Featured in London On The Inside and the canasta journal West London guide.

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2. Lockdown Bakehouse — Wandsworth

Location: 37 Old York Road, Wandsworth, SW18 1TG | Nearest station: Wandsworth Town (rail) | Rating: 4.7 (Google) | Hours: Mon–Fri 7am–3pm; Sat–Sun 7:30am–3:30pm

This is where it all began for Lockdown Bakehouse — a pandemic-born enterprise that set out to feed NHS workers and local residents, and ended up becoming one of South West London's most beloved neighbourhood institutions. The raspberry doughnuts alone justify a detour from Putney, but the potato sourdough (unusual, brilliant, genuinely worth the journey) is the sleeper hit. Throw in steak and ale pies and a mac and cheese pie that has absolutely no business being as good as it is, and you have a bakery that wears its community roots proudly without for a moment feeling like it's coasting on them. Featured in South West London bakery guides.

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3. Little Sourdough Kitchen — Fulham

Location: 237 Munster Road, Fulham, SW6 6BT | Nearest station: Fulham Broadway (tube) | Rating: 4.5 (Google) | Hours: Daily 7:30am–3:30pm

Munster Road's best-kept secret is not especially secret any more, which tells you something. Little Sourdough Kitchen is the kind of small, warm, unhurried bakery café that people in other cities are always claiming doesn't exist in London — and yet here it is, turning out naturally leavened loaves and croissants to a neighbourhood that's clearly onto something good. The daily pastry selection changes, which gives you an excellent excuse to come back on a Tuesday when you were just in on Saturday. Recommended across multiple South West London guides as Fulham's best sourdough specialist.

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4. Reemies — Chelsea

Location: 137 Fulham Road, Chelsea, SW3 6SD | Nearest station: South Kensington or Sloane Square (tube) | Rating: 4.6 (Google) | Hours: Mon–Sat 9am–6pm; Sun 10am–6pm

Reemies arrived on the Fulham Road in 2025 and the neighbourhood responded with appropriate enthusiasm. Their bricks-and-mortar debut brought the banana bundt cake — already something of a cult object — to a permanent home, and the pretty pink and red shopfront has become the sort of place people photograph before they even get through the door. Crucially, the vegan versions of the signature bakes hold up as real bakes rather than consolation prizes, which is rarer than it should be. A genuinely welcome newcomer to a stretch of road that needed exactly this kind of energy. Featured in the canasta journal West London bakery guide.

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5. Cavan Bakery — Wimbledon

Location: 143 Arthur Road, Wimbledon, SW19 8AB | Nearest station: Wimbledon Park (tube) | Rating: 4.3 (Google) | Hours: Tue–Thu 7am–3:30pm; Fri 6:30am–2pm; Sat 7am–3:30pm

Established in 1929, the Cavan Bakery has been at this longer than almost anyone else in London — and the Arthur Road site carries that history without making a fuss about it. There's something quietly reassuring about a family business that has navigated nearly a century of change and still shows up before dawn to bake sourdough properly. The loaves are the draw: honest, well-made, unpretentious in the very best sense. In an era when "artisan" gets applied to almost anything, the Cavan Bakery is the real thing by virtue of simply never having stopped being it. One of London's oldest continuously operating independent bakeries.

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6. Maison Bertaux — Wimbledon

Location: Wimbledon Church Road, SW19 5DQ | Nearest station: Wimbledon (tube/rail) | Rating: 4.5 (Google) | Hours: Daily 9:30am–6pm

The original Maison Bertaux on Soho's Greek Street is one of London's genuinely irreplaceable institutions, and its Wimbledon outpost brings that same French patisserie sensibility — the properly made tarts, the celebration cakes that don't disappoint, the sense that someone here actually trained for this — to South West London. The freshly made pastries arrive daily, which matters more than it might sound. This is the sort of place you come to for a birthday cake that doesn't require an explanation when you present it, and for weekend pastries that make staying local feel like an entirely reasonable decision. Recommended as Wimbledon's best French bakery.

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7. August Bakery — Battersea Rise

Location: 6 Battersea Rise, London, SW11 1ED | Nearest station: Clapham Junction (rail) | Rating: 4.9 (Google) | Hours: Tue–Fri 7:30am–4pm; Sat–Mon 8am–4pm

The story of August Bakery is the kind that makes you want to start something yourself: Harry Robins and Florrie Beard began baking naturally leavened loaves in their Putney flat and delivering them by cargo bike before opening this bright site on Battersea Rise in December 2024. The cinnamon buns are exceptional — genuinely one of the benchmarks in a city now awash with cinnamon buns — and the guest-bake programme, featuring collaborations with local producers, keeps things surprising. Weekend queues have already become part of the local rhythm, and frankly they're earned. Voted No. 1 in the British Baker Baker's Dozen 2025; featured in Shortlist and Hungry Soles' best London bakeries lists.

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8. Zeit and Zaatar — Shepherd's Bush

Location: Shepherd's Bush Market, W12 8PP | Nearest station: Shepherd's Bush Market (tube) | Rating: 4.6 (Google) | Hours: Mon–Sat 8am–6pm; Sun 8am–5pm

A bakery that makes you rethink what a bakery can be. Zeit and Zaatar specialises in manaeesh — Levantine flatbreads that come out of the oven hot and slightly blistered, topped with za'atar, akkawi cheese, or spiced sujuk sausage. The sujuk and cheese version is the undisputed highlight: deep maroon, warmly spiced sausage against molten, yielding cheese, wrapped in bread that's been made with the kind of care you usually associate with sourdough. It's a genuinely different cultural experience from everything else on this list, which is exactly why it belongs here. Featured in Time Out West London guides.

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What If Getting There Isn't an Option?

The best of the bakeries above are worth the journey — but they require one, and Saturday mornings have a way of evaporating before you've got your shoes on. It's worth noting that the demand for quality at home has shifted quite dramatically in recent years: people who discovered genuinely good bread during the pandemic, and then discovered that making it themselves was either joyful or completely impractical depending on the week, are now looking for something in between. Artisan breakfast delivery in London has grown accordingly, and not all of it is equal. The versions worth paying attention to tend to share a few characteristics — bread that was baked to order rather than sitting in a van since Wednesday, pastries that travel thoughtfully, and a delivery model that doesn't undo the environmental work the bakeries themselves are doing.

The rise of bread subscriptions and pastry subscriptions across the UK reflects something real: people want the weekend breakfast they'd get if they lived above a great bakery, and they're willing to be organised about it. The best services use bicycle couriers in inner London — better for the streets, better for the bread — and sustainable, recyclable packaging that doesn't leave you with a pile of polystyrene guilt. Zero waste models, where everything is baked to order rather than batch-produced speculatively, are becoming a genuine expectation rather than a selling point. It's a higher bar, and it's the right one.

Butter & Crust: Weekend Bakery Delivery in London

If the idea of a brilliant bakery breakfast without the logistics appeals — and honestly, it should — Butter & Crust is the most satisfying answer we've found. They work with the best independent artisan producers in London, which means the sourdough, pastries, and breakfast goods that land on your doorstep are the real thing: made by people who care, sourced from suppliers who've been properly chosen. Everything is baked to order, so there's no food waste and no compromises on freshness. Delivery is by bicycle in inner London — a weekend breakfast delivery London residents in zones 1 to 3 (and expanding) can actually rely on — and all packaging is fully recyclable.

The subscription is flexible in all the ways that matter: pause it, skip a week, cancel without a form to fill in or a phone call to dread. It arrives by 9am every weekend, which means the coffee is still brewing when the box arrives. For anyone who's been meaning to find a sustainable food delivery in London that doesn't require compromising on quality, or who's been intrigued by the idea of a pastry subscription that actually delivers on its promise, Butter & Crust is genuinely worth trying. It's what weekend mornings are supposed to feel like.

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Sources

Editorial sources: London On The Inside (West London bakery guides); canasta journal West London bakery guide; Time Out West London guides; British Baker Baker's Dozen 2025; Shortlist; Hungry Soles best London bakeries; South West London bakery guides.
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