The Best Bread In London, Ranked

"Unquestionably the best bread plate in London and, in fact, the whole entire universe. Noble Rot’s bread means more to us than most of our friends, family, and exes. A tricolore plate of brown tones in the form of a tri-carb of slices (soda, sourdough, and focaccia), this is bread that once eaten is reordered. And reordered. And possibly reordered again. But which is the best on the plate? The focaccia or the soda. No offence sourdough. The former… is a marvel. Crisp on the crust and about 90% oil, this focaccia has not merely adopted the olive oil it was cooked in but was born in it; moulded by it. The recipe is from The Sportsman, the renowned Whitstable restaurant where former head chef Paul Weaver worked, while the soda bread is à la another legendary seafood restaurant in the shape of Bentleys. It’s a black treacle recipe. Sweet and crumbly and cake-like, with a smear of salted butter it makes us wonder: what is the point of menus? Because when bread—the king, the empress, the czar of all foodstuffs—is this good, you need nothing else." - jake missing