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Like your potato sourdough? Enjoy a feta and honey swirl? Can’t say no to a morning bun? Then you’re probably as much a fan of north London’s Dusty Knuckle as we are, as we’ve just named it the best bakery in London.
The bakery – which has topped our list of the 20 best bakeries in London for 2025 – has become something of an institution since opening over a decade ago in a shipping container, and now has a bricks-and-mortar bakery in Dalston as well as a cafe on Harringay Green Lanes, which opened in 2021. Keep an eye out too for the Dusty Knuckle van parked up in Highbury by the tennis court end of the Highbury Fields, serving up loaves, toasties and coffees.
Dusty Knuckle is also known for its hefty doorstop focaccia sandwiches; big, carby beasts stuffed with everything from beef brisket and sauerkraut, to celeriac and whipped feta. The bakery also has a social conscience, and is committed to assisting ‘at-risk’ youngsters who, through a mentorship programme, are trained up to work in the bakery.
Other bakeries to make the grade in our latest top 20 include cult French-Asian bakery Arome in Covent Garden, the never-knowingly-without-a-giant-queue-outside-it Toad in Camberwell, Palestinian-inspired Bunhead Bakery in Herne Hill, Fortitude Bakehouse in Bloomsbury, and top naan spots Ararat Bread in Dalston and Baban’s Naan in Finsbury Park.
Read the full list of London’s best bakeries in 2025 here.
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