The Best Bakeries and Patisseries in Bath, Somerset

Bath's bakery scene has grown up fast: a heritage-grain flour mill on Walcot Street, a French sourdough specialist with its own cookery school, and a vegan bakery that sold out daily within weeks of opening. If you only have time for one stop, make it Landrace on Walcot Street, which bakes with its own milled flour and runs a cafe alongside a restaurant and pizzeria. Here's the rest of the lineup, and what each one actually does well.

Landrace: sourdough, viennoiserie and its own flour mill

Landrace, at 59 Walcot Street, is a bakery, cafe, restaurant and flour mill under one roof, milling its own speciality grains rather than buying in standard flour. The bakery shop and cafe run mornings into early afternoon (roughly 8:30am to 3:30pm on weekdays, shorter at the weekend), with the "Upstairs" restaurant and a pizzeria operating separately in the evenings. On the counter, expect cardamom buns, pistachio cornetti, buttermilk cheese scones and seasonal pastries built around the heritage and regional grains the mill produces, rather than a standard croissant-and-Danish case. It's walk-in only for the cafe; no bookings needed.

Bertinet Bakery: the elder statesman of Bath sourdough

Bertinet Bakery, just off New Bond Street in the city centre, has been baking in Bath since 2007 under Richard Bertinet, a French-trained baker who also runs the well-known Bertinet Cookery School and has written several bread books. The bakery produces naturally leavened sourdough and long-fermentation breads carrying the Real Bread Campaign's sourdough mark, alongside proper viennoiserie: croissants, pain au chocolat, chocolate babka and almond and pistachio pastries sit next to the loaves. It's the pick if you want French technique applied to bread rather than a cafe-first spot that happens to sell pastries.

Morso Bakery: vegan pastries that don't shout about it

Morso Bakery, on Saville Row, opened in June 2026 out of the former Morso Vegan Cookery School (itself an offshoot of Demuths Cookery School) and sold out of pastries every day through its two-week soft launch. Everything on the menu is plant-based, but the bakery doesn't lead with that: cinnamon buns, almond croissants and cardamom buns are the headline bakes, made fresh in-house daily, alongside speciality coffee from Wiltshire roaster Colours Coffee. It opens from 7:30am Wednesday to Friday and 9am to 3:30pm at weekends, with a small courtyard for sitting outside.

Relish Vegan: celebration cakes to order, not a shopfront

Worth knowing about but different from the rest of this list: Relish Vegan is a home-based vegan cake maker rather than a bakery you can walk into. Every celebration cake is made to order, with prices starting at £35 depending on size, and you collect from the baker's home or arrange local delivery. There's no shop, but Relish trades regularly at Bath Vegan Market at Green Park Station and at the Frome Vegan Market, so it's a genuine option if you're after a fully vegan cake for a birthday or event rather than a pastry with your coffee.

The Thoughtful Bread Company: real bread with a school attached

The Thoughtful Bread Company, at 19 Barton Street, is an established artisan bakery, shop and bakery school founded by Duncan Glendinning, a Real Bread Campaign ambassador. Alongside Real Bread loaves, it sells patisserie, cakes and sandwiches to eat in or take away, and runs its own bread-baking courses for anyone who wants to learn rather than just buy. It's open Tuesday to Friday 8am to 5pm and Saturday and Sunday 8am to 4pm, closed Mondays, and its stall also turns up at Bath's Saturday farmers' market at Green Park Station.

Mokoko Coffee & Bakery: pastries by the Abbey

Mokoko Coffee & Bakery, at 6 Abbey Churchyard, sits right by Bath Abbey and turns out continental-style viennoiserie: croissants, pain au chocolat and cinnamon buns, plus sandwiches like mortadella and mozzarella for a savoury stop. It's part of a small regional chain with a second Bath site at Newark Works and further branches in Bristol and Portishead, so consistency rather than one-off character is the trade-off for the prime location. It's open daily, roughly 9am to 5pm during the week and a little later on Saturdays.

How they compare

Getting the most out of it

None of these take reservations for the bakery side, so it's walk-in and takeaway across the board, though Landrace's Upstairs restaurant and Bertinet's cookery school do run on bookings if you want to go beyond a pastry. If coffee matters as much as the bake, pair a visit with our guide to Bath's specialty coffee shops, since Morso and Mokoko both treat the drink as seriously as the food. Bakery pastries also make a fair stand-in for a sit-down morning meal: see our brunch guide if you want a full plate instead, or our afternoon tea guide if it's cake and a proper pot of tea you're after. Walcot Street and Barton Street are both a short walk from the city centre, so it's easy to fold Landrace or The Thoughtful Bread Company into a wider wander rather than treating either as a special trip.

FAQs

Which bakery does the best sourdough in Bath?

Bertinet Bakery is the specialist: its sourdough carries the Real Bread Campaign mark and founder Richard Bertinet has built his reputation on it since 2007. Landrace also bakes sourdough, using flour from its own on-site mill.

Are there good vegan bakery options in Bath?

Yes. Morso Bakery on Saville Row is fully plant-based, from its pastries to its coffee, and doesn't make a big deal of it. Relish Vegan makes vegan celebration cakes to order, though it has no shopfront, and trades at Bath Vegan Market.

Do any of these bakeries also do takeaway coffee?

Most do. Morso serves speciality coffee from Wiltshire roaster Colours Coffee, Mokoko is a coffee shop as much as a bakery, and Bertinet and The Thoughtful Bread Company both sell coffee alongside their bread and pastries.

Is there a bakery in Bath with a cookery school?

Two of them. Bertinet Bakery is linked to the Bertinet Cookery School, and The Thoughtful Bread Company runs its own bread-baking courses at its Barton Street site.

Where can I order a vegan celebration cake in Bath?

Relish Vegan makes vegan celebration cakes to order, with prices starting at £35. There's no shop to walk into: you order ahead, then collect from the baker's home or arrange local delivery, or catch her stall at Bath Vegan Market.

Which bakery is closest to the centre of Bath?

Mokoko Coffee & Bakery, right on Abbey Churchyard beside Bath Abbey, is the most central. Bertinet Bakery, just off New Bond Street, is also a short walk from the Abbey and the Roman Baths.