Ararat Bread

A small bakery on Ridley Road that specialises in naan-style flatbreads. Excellent prices, incredible flavour. It may be little more than a hole-in-the-wall, but Ararat’s Middle Eastern-style flatbreads are the stuff of legend and find their way into countless restaurants and shops across town – as well serving the needs of hungry local boozehounds. The action centres around a huge rotating oven and a trestle table where the naans are bagged up (hot ones are wrapped in paper, cold ones come in environmentally friendly plastic bags). You can buy them plain, although most people go for the versions topped with meat, cheese or egg; either way, they’re cheap as chips – but far more interesting.