Tucked down a cobblestone mews in Bloomsbury, you’ll find craft bakery Fortitude Bakehouse – and its bold blue doors are worth seeking out next time you’re in the area, thanks to its menu of coffees and pastries, which are baked fresh daily.

Serving a seasonal selection of buns and beignets alongside an ever-changing menu of other sweet and savoury delights (recent flavours include tiramisu beignet and mango lime cream, but if it’s buns you’re after, don’t miss the cinnamon sticky bun and the chocolate sticky bun) that go perfectly with your morning coffee.

If you’re keen to try your hand at some of the bakery’s most famed recipes, be sure to check out its 2021 cookbook, Baking With Fortitude.

35 Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London WC1N; fortitudebakehouse.com

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