The Best Independent Bakeries in Putney

Saturday morning in Putney has a particular quality to it. The High Street hasn't quite woken up yet, the Thames path is filling with joggers, and somewhere nearby someone has already opened a brown paper bag and the smell of warm cardamom or fresh sourdough is drifting out. If you know where to go, the stretch of South West and West London that surrounds Putney is quietly one of the best areas in the city for independent baking — from cargo-bike origin stories in Battersea to a family bakery that has been feeding the neighbourhood since 1929. This is our guide to the best of them, and a few that are well worth the short trip. Weekend breakfast delivery London has never looked more tempting, but more on that later.

The Best Independent Bakeries Near Putney

1. Buns From Home — Hammersmith

📍 214 King Street, Hammersmith, W6 9YE | ⭐ 4.6 | Tue–Thu: 11am–8pm; Fri–Mon: 11am–7pm

The Buns From Home story is one of those lockdown-era tales that actually has a happy ending. Brothers Barney and Gabriel started baking pastries and delivering them around London by bike when the world shut down, and what began as a neighbourhood gesture grew into a proper multi-site operation. The Hammersmith branch brings their cinnamon and cardamom croissant buns, double-baked pistachio frangipane, and an ever-rotating cast of seasonal flavours to West London — and once you've had the tiramisu bun on a grey Tuesday afternoon, you'll understand why the queues form quickly. Featured in London On The Inside and the Canasta Journal West London guide.

2. Lockdown Bakehouse — Wandsworth

📍 37 Old York Road, Wandsworth, SW18 1TG | ⭐ 4.7 | Mon–Fri: 7am–3pm; Sat–Sun: 7:30am–3:30pm

This is where it all started for Lockdown Bakehouse — the original Wandsworth site, born out of a pandemic-era commitment to feed local residents and NHS workers when it mattered most. That community spirit never left, and today the flagship items tell the story just as clearly: raspberry doughnuts that are worth a detour in themselves, potato sourdough with a crust that shatters properly, and savoury pies — steak and ale, mac and cheese — that have no business being as good as they are. A genuine neighbourhood institution, and one of the most warmly recommended bakeries in South West London guides.

3. Little Sourdough Kitchen — Fulham

📍 237 Munster Road, Fulham, SW6 6BT | ⭐ 4.5 | Daily: 7:30am–3:30pm

Munster Road's best-kept secret — though the regulars would rather you didn't spread it around. Little Sourdough Kitchen is exactly what its name promises: a small, warmly run café and bakery that takes naturally leavened bread seriously and does it with real skill. The croissants are properly laminated, the daily pastry selection changes with the season, and the atmosphere is the kind of unhurried, neighbourhood warmth that you simply cannot manufacture. Multiple South West London guides have called it Fulham's best sourdough specialist, and on a quiet weekday morning it is easy to see why.

4. Reemies — Chelsea

📍 137 Fulham Road, Chelsea, SW3 6SD | ⭐ 4.6 | Mon–Sat: 9am–6pm; Sun: 10am–6pm

Reemies only opened their first bricks-and-mortar shop on Fulham Road in 2025, and already the pretty pink and red storefront feels like it has always been there. The star attraction is their banana bundt cake — a thing of real beauty, available in vegan form too — but the full range of signature bakes draws visitors from well beyond Chelsea. Spotted in the Canasta Journal West London bakery guide and already earning a reputation as one of the area's most exciting newcomers. If you walk past without going in, you will regret it.

5. Cavan Bakery — Wimbledon

📍 143 Arthur Road, Wimbledon, SW19 8AB | ⭐ 4.3 | Tue–Thu & Sat: 7am–3:30pm; Fri: 6:30am–2pm

1929. Let that sink in. The Cavan Bakery has been baking on Arthur Road — and several other sites — since before the Second World War, and the commitment to specialist sourdough and traditional methods has not wavered across nearly a century of ownership. This is multi-generational, no-nonsense baking with the kind of institutional knowledge that money genuinely cannot buy. It is one of London's oldest continuously operating independent bakeries, and a visit feels like something worth appreciating properly.

6. Maison Bertaux — Wimbledon

📍 Wimbledon Church Road, Wimbledon, SW19 5DQ | ⭐ 4.5 | Daily: 9:30am–6pm

The name will be familiar to anyone who has ever walked down Greek Street in Soho — Maison Bertaux has been one of London's most beloved patisseries for generations, and this Wimbledon outpost brings the same French pastry craftsmanship to South West London. Freshly made tarts, delicate pastries, and celebration cakes done with genuine flair. It is the kind of place where you come in for a coffee and a small tart, and leave clutching a cake box because something in the display cabinet made an argument you couldn't refuse.

7. August Bakery — Battersea Rise

📍 6 Battersea Rise, London, SW11 1ED | ⭐ 4.9 | Tue–Fri: 7:30am–4pm; Sat–Mon: 8am–4pm

August Bakery is, by any measure, the most exciting opening in this part of London in recent memory. Harry Robins and Florrie Beard started delivering naturally leavened loaves by cargo bike from their Putney flat, and when they opened this bright, airy space on Battersea Rise in December 2024, the response was immediate. Weekend queues are now part of the local ritual — and for good reason. The naturally leavened breads are exceptional, the cinnamon buns are the kind you think about later in the week, and a guest-bake programme brings in collaborations with local producers that keeps the menu genuinely surprising. Voted No. 1 in the British Baker Baker's Dozen 2025, and featured in Shortlist, britbrief.co.uk, and Hungry Soles' best London bakeries lists. Go early.

8. Zeit and Zaatar — Shepherd's Bush

📍 Shepherd's Bush Market, London, W12 8PP | ⭐ 4.6 | Mon–Sat: 8am–6pm; Sun: 8am–5pm

Not every great bakery is rooted in sourdough and laminated dough, and Zeit and Zaatar is a welcome reminder of that. Tucked into Shepherd's Bush Market, this Levantine bakery turns out manaeesh — oven-hot flatbreads topped with za'atar, akkawi cheese, or spiced sujuk sausage — that are genuinely unlike anything else you will find in this part of London. The sujuk and cheese version, with its deep maroon spiced sausage and gooey melted cheese, is the one to order. A culturally distinctive, entirely delicious presence in West London, featured in Time Out's West London guides.

What If Getting There Isn't an Option?

The honest truth about London weekends is that they don't always go to plan. Sometimes the queue at your favourite bakery is twenty minutes long before 9am. Sometimes the baby didn't sleep, the dog needs walking, and Battersea Rise feels very far away from your kitchen table. It is no coincidence that the demand for quality breakfast delivery London residents can rely on has grown so sharply in recent years — people have simply realised that a genuinely good loaf or a proper pastry, delivered to your door before you've made your first coffee, is not a luxury. It is just a very sensible way to start a Saturday.

What has shifted just as meaningfully is the values attached to that delivery. The bakeries on this list — particularly August, with its cargo bike origin story, and Lockdown Bakehouse, with its community roots — reflect a growing appetite for businesses that operate thoughtfully. The rise of bread subscription London services, pastry subscription UK models built around zero-waste baking, and bike delivery food London operations that cut emissions without cutting quality all point in the same direction. People want the best of the bakery, without the bakery having to be round the corner. Sustainable food delivery London isn't a niche anymore — it is becoming the standard.

Butter & Crust: Artisan Bakery Delivery, Right to Your Door

If the list above has you planning a weekend bakery crawl across South West London, brilliant — every one of these places deserves your custom. But if you'd rather have that same quality arrive at your door before you've had to think about it, that's exactly what Butter & Crust was built for.

Working with the best local artisan producers in London, Butter & Crust delivers sourdough, pastries, and breakfast goods by 9am every weekend — so Saturday morning actually begins the way it should. In inner London they deliver by bicycle, and all packaging is fully recyclable, making this one of the more genuinely zero waste bakery London operations around. Everything is baked to order, which means nothing sits on a shelf and nothing goes to waste. The subscription is as flexible as you need it to be: pause, skip, or cancel whenever life gets in the way. They currently cover most of London zones 1–3, with more areas coming soon.

It is, in short, the kind of thing a very organised friend with excellent taste would have already told you about. Consider this that conversation. If you're looking for a reliable artisan sourdough London delivery or a weekend breakfast delivery London service that actually understands what good baking looks like, Butter & Crust is the place to start.

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Sources

Bakeries Referenced

• Buns From Home — Hammersmith, W6 9YE | bunsfromhome.com
• Lockdown Bakehouse — Wandsworth, SW18 1TG | lockdownbakehouse.com
• Little Sourdough Kitchen — Fulham, SW6 6BT | Facebook
• Reemies — Chelsea, SW3 6SD | reemiescakes.com
• Cavan Bakery — Wimbledon, SW19 8AB | thecavanbakery.co.uk
• Maison Bertaux — Wimbledon, SW19 5DQ | maisonbertaux.com
• August Bakery — Battersea Rise, SW11 1ED | august-bakery.com
• Zeit and Zaatar — Shepherd's Bush, W12 8PP | Facebook

Editorial Sources

• London On The Inside — West London bakery guide
• Canasta Journal — West London bakery guide
• Time Out — West London guides
• British Baker Baker's Dozen — 2025
• Shortlist — Best London bakeries
• Hungry Soles — Best London bakeries
• britbrief.co.uk — London bakery features