Nordic Bakery

Nordic Bakery is a beautiful Scandinavian café. We are famous for our cinnamon buns, rye bread sandwiches & coffee. A peaceful meeting place in London with locations in Covent Garden, Soho and Marylebone

Dark rye bread, Cinnamon buns & Coffee in London | Nordic Bakery

We offer a selection of open rye bread sandwiches, hearty cinnamon buns and cakes, served with excellent coffee.

We also have a selection of Nordic Bakery gift items for you to take home or give to someone special.

Our cake menu and gift items can be found here.

Our week long celebration of one of Scandinavia’s most loved classics – the cinnamon bun is back again.

See the Cinnamon bun week page for more information.

http://www.nordicbakery.com

Nordic Bakery: Dark rye bread, Cinnamon buns & Coffee in London

We offer a selection of open rye bread sandwiches, hearty cinnamon buns and cakes, served with excellent coffee.

We also have a selection of Nordic Bakery gift items for you to take home or give to someone special.

Our cake menu and gift items can be found here.

Our week long celebration of one of Scandinavia’s most loved classics – the cinnamon bun is back again.

See the Cinnamon bun week page for more information.

Aster review: Working Lunch at Victoria's new restaurant ...

A sharp, modern restaurant in the heart of the new Nova district opposite Victoria station that offers all the finesse of a French brasserie and all the naughtiness of a Nordic bakery.

Stay for a hearty business lunch, nip back in the afternoon for a cinnamon bun.

There’s also a soon-to-be champagne bar, and the restaurant – packed out with plush banquettes – resides upstairs with floor-to-ceiling views of, well, Victoria’s many construction sites and a Pret a Manger.

Thankfully, Aster hasn’t gone full fusion on us; it’s a Scandi dish here with a Franco fling there or vice versa.

Aster is a crowd-pleaser, a versatile restaurant that still has some surprises up its sleeve, serving up fusion food that doesn’t forget to be fun.

Review: Nordic Bakery - Quaint Scandinavian Cafe | London Insider

The beauty about London is that there is never any problem finding a cafe to meet a friend for a coffee or a light lunch for a chat.

You can practically pick any random tube station to meet up at in Zone 1, and within a few hundred meters there is guaranteed to be a Starbucks, Cafe Nero, or Costa, all serving standardized decent coffee with homogenized pastries and plush sofas.

My friend had the rustic oatmeal biscuits, and while in any other cafe they would be considered pretty good, it was no comparison to the cinnamon bun.

The tables are all quite spread out so no bumping elbows unlike those cafes along Shaftesbury Avenue, and they serve really good authentic Scandinavian food (including many rye bread sandwiches which I did not have a chance to try this time).

Rating: 7 out of 10 stars Cuisine: Scandinavian cafe serving Norwegian, Finnish, and Swedish pastries (e.g. karelian pie, cinnamon buns), smorgasbord, gravalax, coffees, and sandwiches.

More cinnamon buns: a review of Nordic Bakery's Marylebone cafe ...

By contrast with Fabrique, and its maiden cafe hidden away in Hoxton, Nordic Bakery was always in plain sight: the only thing I ever cared to look at in Soho’s Golden Square, with curious, eager eyes, like a cat waiting to be fed.

The first time I went to Nordic Bakery (the Marylebone branch, which I hit on a Friday morning off work), a lady had just snatched a whole basket of them, leaving the cafe out of stock.

I love Nordic Bakery’s buns just as much as as Fabrique’s, or Scandinavian Kitchen’s, although for different reasons.

Nordic’s cappuccino reminded me of City Bakery in New York, where I was served a huge mug with so much milk, the coffee had long lost all hope to be saved from drowning.

They’d laugh at my homemade cinnamon buns, and argue the first meal of the day should be savoury; I wouldn’t trust them to make me an espresso worthy of mum’s moka, or my hometown’s neighbourhood cafes.

Nordic calm for scary people – Aquavit London reviewed | The ...

Aquavit is a ‘uniquely Nordic–style’ restaurant in the St James’s Market development between Regent Street and the Haymarket.

Here sits Aquavit, expressing the vogue for Scandinavia in haute cuisine form; why do I feel, increasingly, that as we lose a real world we build a new and tinny one?

So Aquavit, which joins the Nordic Bakery and the Scandinavian Kitchen in London’s shining Little Scandinavia.

It is a vast space with wooden walls and huge windows to the street; strange blue rugs the colour of the Caribbean Sea; a double-height ceiling for an echo; a long bar with spindly blue stools; orange banquettes; weird golden candelabras, or robotic octopi; grey; swirling marble floors.

This careful fine dining is soothing, because Aquavit is wide-spaced and peopled with smiling, softly spoken, beautifully dressed waiters, but it feels to me like false serenity and, I suspect, as close to real Scandinavia as Rules is to real Edwardian London.

Nordic cinnamon buns and rye bread recipes | Life and style | The ...

Dark rye breads, cinnamon buns, coffee," reads the sign on the window of the Nordic Bakery on London's Golden Square.

The Nordic Bakery version is Finnish – robustly spiced, glazed and crunchy on the outside with a light dough interior that belies its indecent butter content.

fresh yeast 45g (or easy-blend dried yeast, according to manufacturer's instructions) You will need To make the dough, put the milk, sugar, yeast, cardamom, melted butter and egg in a food processor or mixer with a dough hook.

Transfer the dough to a bowl, cover with a clean tea towel and leave to prove in a warm place for 1 hour, or until it has doubled in size.

For the filling, spread the butter evenly over the dough and sprinkle the sugar and cinnamon all over the top.

Nordic Bakery | Restaurants in Soho, London

An oasis of calm and poise in frenetic Soho, this cool café is a fantastic under-the-radar pitstop for Scandi-style sandwiches and sweet treats.

Stepping out of the anarchy of Soho, pushing open the heavy wooden door and crossing over into Nordic Bakery’s calm, ordered world gives you a rush of reassurance that everything will, in fact, be alright.

You’ll be greeted by attractive smiling servers and cocooned in a warm wood-lined interior where everything, from the Alvar Aalto furniture to the Helvetica signage, is clean of line and muted in tone.

Even the sandwiches look pretty – neat circles of dark rye supporting Scandinavian staples such as gravadlax, brie and lingonberry, or the delicious combination of vinegary herring with soft egg and a smooth mustardy mayonnaise.

Or try a karelian pie – a traditional Finnish rice or potato pasty, perhaps with a bottle of Nordic’s in-house blueberry cordial.

Nordic Bakery | Restaurants in Covent Garden, London

Until Nordic Bakery came along, that is, and made Helvetica synonymous with cinnamon buns.

An open sandwich of quality smoked salmon on black rye bread was simple Scandi perfection; as was the Karelian pie, a savoury, lightly salted concoction that tastes like a mash-up between a potato cake and a Müller Rice.

The beautifully dark, cocoa-filled ‘mud cake’.

Another thing that could upset your zen a bit is the price point: £4.90 for half an open sandwich?

Except, maybe, for that sandwich.