Signature GAIL's Sourdough
£4.60Our signature loaf — a long, slow ferment and a blistered, mahogany crust.
Neighbourhood bakery · since 2005
Good bread,
Good bread,
made by hand.
Sourdough with a soul, pastries laminated at dawn, and coffee worth crossing the road for. Baked fresh through the day, in your neighbourhood.
- 170+
- Bakeries
- 36 hrs
- Sourdough ferment
- Daily
- Baked from scratch
We believe in making good bread. Everything else — the pastries, the cakes, the coffee — grows out of that one stubborn idea.
Read our story → Baked this morning
Full menu → Today’s signatures
Signature 
Baked daily Butter Croissant
£3.20Twenty-seven layers of butter and patience, laminated by hand.
In season Citrus Meringue Tart
£4.90Sharp, sweet and torched to order. This season, with blood orange.
Our mother doughs The starter came first.
The starter came first.
Everything follows it.
Our sourdough begins with living starters we’ve fed every day for years — bubbling, sour-sweet, and quietly alive. There are no shortcuts and no improvers. Just flour, water, salt, time, and a baker who knows when the dough is ready.
- 36 hrsfrom starter to shelf
- 7signature loaves
- 0additives, ever
In season now
Summer on the counter
Right now we’re baking with British strawberries and the first of the stone fruit — berry brioche, ricotta cakes still warm, and iced matcha for the walk home.
See the seasonal menu →By hand
Every loaf scored, every croissant laminated, by our bakers — not a machine.
By the season
Menus that move with the year, cooked with what’s good right now.
Waste not
Yesterday’s bread milled back into today’s; surplus to local charities.
From the journal
Stories from the bakery
Come in
The kettle’s on and the bread is warm.
Order ahead for collection, or just follow your nose to the nearest GAIL’s.