The Ultimate Guide to Bakeries: Putney
There's a particular kind of Saturday morning that South West London does better than anywhere else in the city. The light comes in low over the Thames, the weekend stretches out ahead of you, and somewhere between Putney Bridge and the common, your nose leads you somewhere warm and wonderful before your feet have even decided where you're going. This part of London has always had strong neighbourhood instincts — people know their local, they know their greengrocer, and increasingly, they know their baker. Whether you're after a cinnamon bun with your flat white, a proper naturally leavened loaf to anchor the week, or something entirely off the beaten track for the breakfast table, the bakeries within reach of Putney right now are genuinely worth getting out of bed for. And if you've been searching for weekend breakfast delivery London options that rival the real thing — well, we'll get to that.
The Best Bakeries Near Putney
1. Buns From Home — Hammersmith
214 King Street, Hammersmith, W6 9YE | Rating: 4.6 | Tue–Thu: 11am–8pm; Fri–Mon: 11am–7pm | Nearest station: Hammersmith (tube)
The lockdown origin story has become something of a cliché in London baking, but brothers Barney and Gabriel's particular version of it produced something genuinely special. They started delivering pastries around London by bike, the buns caught on, and now the Hammersmith outpost on King Street is one of the most joyful bakery pit stops in West London. The cinnamon and cardamom croissant bun is the one everyone talks about — rightly — but the double-baked pistachio frangipane and rotating seasonal flavours mean that coming back regularly is entirely justified. Featured in London On The Inside and the canasta journal West London guide, this is a place that earns its word-of-mouth.
2. Lockdown Bakehouse — Wandsworth
37 Old York Road, Wandsworth, SW18 1TG | Rating: 4.7 | Mon–Fri: 7am–3pm; Sat–Sun: 7:30am–3:30pm | Nearest station: Wandsworth Town (rail)
This is where it all began. The original Lockdown Bakehouse site on Old York Road started as a pandemic initiative — a direct response to a neighbourhood in need, supplying local residents and NHS workers when they needed it most. That community spirit never left, and what it left behind is one of South West London's most beloved bakeries. The raspberry doughnuts are the kind of thing you think about on a Tuesday when you can't make it in. The potato sourdough is quietly brilliant. And the steak and ale and mac and cheese pies have built their own devoted following entirely on merit. A neighbourhood institution in the truest sense.
3. Little Sourdough Kitchen — Fulham
237 Munster Road, Fulham, SW6 6BT | Rating: 4.5 | Daily: 7:30am–3:30pm | Nearest station: Fulham Broadway (tube)
Munster Road is exactly the kind of street that deserves a place like this. Little Sourdough Kitchen is small, intimate, and entirely focused on doing a handful of things extraordinarily well. The naturally leavened loaves are the headline act, consistently cited in South West London guides as Fulham's best sourdough specialist, but the croissants and daily pastry selection mean this is as much a morning ritual stop as a bread destination. The sort of place that has regulars who feel personally invested in it — and probably should, given how much it adds to the street.
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4. Reemies — Chelsea (Fulham Road)
137 Fulham Road, Chelsea, SW3 6SD | Rating: 4.6 | Mon–Sat: 9am–6pm; Sun: 10am–6pm | Nearest station: South Kensington or Sloane Square
Reemies opened their first bricks-and-mortar shop on Fulham Road in 2025, and the pretty pink-and-red storefront has already become one of those places that stops people mid-stride. The banana bundt cakes — available in vegan versions too — are the thing that built the reputation, but the full range of signature bakes draws visitors from well beyond Chelsea. Featured in the canasta journal West London bakery guide, this is a welcome new fixture on a stretch of road that takes its food seriously. Worth the trip even if just for one of those bundts and somewhere to sit in the sun.
5. The Cavan Bakery — Wimbledon
143 Arthur Road, Wimbledon, SW19 8AB | Rating: 4.3 | Tue–Thu: 7am–3:30pm; Fri: 6:30am–2pm; Sat: 7am–3:30pm | Nearest station: Wimbledon Park (tube)
Established in 1929, The Cavan Bakery is one of those rare London businesses that carries genuine history in its walls. Nearly a century of family baking on the Arthur Road site — that's not a marketing line, that's a remarkable thing. The specialist sourdough is the focus, produced using traditional methods that clearly haven't needed updating. In a city that celebrates every shiny new opening, there's something deeply satisfying about a place that has simply kept doing it well for nearly 100 years. One of London's oldest continuously operating independent bakeries, and worth your time.
6. Maison Bertaux — Wimbledon
Wimbledon Church Road, SW19 5DQ | Rating: 4.5 | Daily: 9:30am–6pm | Nearest station: Wimbledon (tube/rail)
The original Maison Bertaux on Greek Street in Soho has been a London institution since 1871, and the Wimbledon outpost carries that same spirit of unhurried French patisserie to South West London. Freshly made tarts, classic pastries, and celebration cakes produced daily with real craftsmanship — the kind of place you turn to when you want something that feels genuinely considered. Recommended as Wimbledon's best French bakery by local guides, and the kind of addition to a neighbourhood that makes it noticeably better.
7. August Bakery — Battersea Rise
6 Battersea Rise, London, SW11 1ED | Rating: 4.9 | Tue–Fri: 7:30am–4pm; Sat–Mon: 8am–4pm | Nearest station: Clapham Junction (rail)
If you follow London baking at all, you'll have heard about August. Harry Robins and Florrie Beard started by delivering naturally leavened loaves around Putney by cargo bike from their flat — which, incidentally, tells you everything about the spirit of this place — before opening their Battersea Rise site in December 2024. The rating of 4.9 speaks for itself, and the No. 1 British Baker Baker's Dozen 2025 award is no small thing. The cinnamon buns are exceptional, the guest-bake collaborations with local producers keep things genuinely interesting, and the weekend queues are already a neighbourhood ritual. Don't miss it.
8. Zeit and Zaatar — Shepherd's Bush
Shepherd's Bush Market, London, W12 8PP | Rating: 4.6 | Mon–Sat: 8am–6pm; Sun: 8am–5pm | Nearest station: Shepherd's Bush Market (tube)
Not everything on this list involves sourdough and cinnamon buns, and thank goodness for that. Zeit and Zaatar brings something entirely its own to West London — manaeesh, the oven-hot Levantine flatbreads topped with za'atar, akkawi cheese, or spiced sujuk sausage. The sujuk and cheese version is the one to go for: deep maroon spiced sausage, gloriously gooey cheese, the kind of thing that rearranges your expectations of what a bakery can be. Featured in Time Out and various West London guides, this is a genuinely distinctive cultural presence in the market, and one that rewards an early visit before the best ones go.
What If Getting There Isn't an Option?
Even in a neighbourhood as well-served as Putney, there are mornings when the queue is too long, the kids need feeding before anyone's properly awake, or the sourdough you meant to pick up yesterday is already sold out by the time you arrive. It's not a failure of commitment — it's just Sunday. And it's exactly why the appetite for genuinely good artisan breakfast delivery London-wide has grown so dramatically in recent years. People aren't settling for supermarket loaves out of convenience anymore. They want the real thing, on their doorstep, without having to set an alarm to beat the regulars to the counter.
What's shifted the conversation even further is the way the best of these services are operating. A bread subscription or pastry subscription UK model built around zero-waste principles — baked to order rather than baked in hope — is a genuinely different proposition from a delivery app topping up yesterday's batch. Add bicycle delivery through inner London, recyclable packaging, and the flexibility to pause or skip when life gets in the way, and you have something that actually fits around how people live. Sustainable food delivery London has moved from niche to necessity for a certain kind of food-minded household, and the demand keeps growing.
Butter & Crust: The Weekend Ritual, Delivered
If the bakeries above have done their job of making you hungry and slightly inconvenienced by geography, here's one more recommendation — this one requiring absolutely no travel at all. Butter & Crust was built specifically around the idea that a brilliant weekend breakfast shouldn't depend on whether you can make it out before 9am. They work with the best independent artisan producers in London, and deliver sourdough, pastries, and breakfast goods to your door by 9am every Saturday and Sunday morning. In inner London, that means bicycle delivery — zero emissions, genuinely local, and the kind of operational choice that actually matches the values it claims. Packaging is recyclable throughout.
The model that makes it particularly worth trying: everything is baked to order, which means there is no food waste. Nothing sits on a shelf hoping to be chosen. Your box exists because you ordered it. A flexible subscription lets you pause, skip, or cancel whenever you need to — no minimum terms, no awkward cancellation calls. Butter & Crust currently covers most of London zones 1–3, with more areas coming. As a bread subscription London option that takes quality as seriously as the bakeries on this list, it earns an honest mention. Sometimes the best thing you can do for a Saturday morning is simply make sure it arrives ready and waiting.
Sources
Buns From Home — Hammersmith, W6 9YE | bunsfromhome.com
Lockdown Bakehouse — Wandsworth, SW18 1TG | lockdownbakehouse.com
Little Sourdough Kitchen — Fulham, SW6 6BT | facebook.com
Reemies — Chelsea, SW3 6SD | reemiescakes.com
The 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.com
Editorial references: London On The Inside (West London bakery guides) · canasta journal West London bakery guide · Time Out London (West London guides) · British Baker Baker's Dozen 2025 · Shortlist · britbrief.co.uk · Hungry Soles best London bakeries
