Baker & Spice

February 2020 - Lovely cafe with friendly, attentive staff and fresh produce. There is an extensive range of brunch, salad options as well as fresh bakery items. Coffee is great as well. Definitely worth a try and repeat! - NOT APPLICABLE ANYMORE September 2020 - Unfortunately, I am having to change the rating for this place and it has really hit rock bottom. The food was very average and most disappointing was the bread, it was worse than bread from a run of the mill supermarket brand. There were food flies hovering around everywhere. Also, they nickle and dime you on everything. Charging for butter and jam when you're ordering two main course breakfast items served with toast? Ridiculous! Definitely not worth a repeat which is sad as it is used to be our Saturday morning go to place. After going through some other reviews, it seems like there seems to be consensus on the degradation of the quality here. The owners need to pay some attention here?

Part of a chain. Fantastic indoors, feels very comfy and leisurely. Inviting setting. Coffee bitter, Americano bitter and too much water. Still if they had not burnt my bacons, I would have given them a 5-stars

It's like the staff are forced to work there, not even a slight smile. I know the place, the food used to be good. But the pancakes has a strong eggs taste, trust me you can do better at home. The eggs florantine are cold and bland. Avoid.

Went on a Sunday for brunch. Not putting one star just because food and drinks were amazing. Staff extremely slow and careless, had to ask to clean the table they told me to sit at, still full with previous customers' dishes. Though was enough, but then one of the staff member went on break and just saw her laying on a table sleeping. I absolutely understand how hospitality can be tirying and stressful sometimes, but that was completely unprofessional. If I were the manager I would be ashamed of my own team, and get some training done asap.

Good selection and good food. The staff is very friendly, but a bit inexperienced.

Very friendly and cheerful service. Good coffee and delicious cronut!

All the Lovely staff and welcoming, relaxed atmosphere food is delicious and bursts flavours.

Great taste, atmosphere and staff. One of my favourite bakery/brunch places

This little gem filled with lovely yumminess is not only a fantastic bakery, but offers savory prepared salads and dishes to eat in the cafes small space or for take away. There are many temping treats all baked on the premises, with the usual favorites of croissants and muffins, fruit tarts, and a selection of artisan breads. I am partial to their delicate cocktail cheese biscuits in flavors such as Parmesan, and jalapeno cheddar. Be warned that once you have their zesty Lemon Drizzle cake, none other will ever do.

Was a little early for a group meeting and luckily ran across this little gem. Lots of salad choices: I ended up trying the sweet potato, sunblush tomato and fennel. Was yummy - dressed well and colourful. The staff were busy but friendly and I liked the fact that there was a lot of produce to explore on the shelves. Not my usual neighbourhood so I probs won't get around to visiting again but lovely spot :)

This bakery have different kinds of food you can have breakfast ,lunch or afternoon Tea it's shows delicious . I am passing by this bakery just to have my breakfast because theY have lots of flavors ( Danish ) is my Fav , The staff very friendly , service is good . All in all worth a try . Keep this service up ! Thank u

We've eaten here several times. Great spot for delicious & relaxing breakfast, as well as people-watching. Awesome Croque Madame is served on yummy thick bread (it could be thinner, actually). Perfect cheese & sauce. Good eggs. Great, crispy French toast. Husband likes it with honey. Husband enjoyed the traditional English breakfast, though it was huge! Eggs Benedict is ok, not the best I've had. Sauce just wasn't perfect and bread was too thick and too sweet. Tea service is awesome. Try the almond lemon pastry too. Delicious!! Dark haired waitress is really nice.

Before I agree to meet you for a lunch date, please note I suffer from a crippling Fear of Missing Out. The problem is I never want what's on a menu, I want everything on it, but not exactly. It might involve mixing and matching, starters to mains, or having a side as start, or even, just having the cheese. In advance I appologise. I do respect the craft and the curation of a skilled chef and if you want me to experience your totalitarian menu where nothing can be adjusted, then don't expect me to adjust my ratings when I think that I'd turn up the flavours, some. You may think, to help me decide it may be useful to perhaps send me the menu before our lunch date, or got forbid make me pre-order. Never make me pre-order. Send me a menu and ask me to preorder my food for your life event and yes, I'll RSVP, come to your party but I may like you less whilst I chomp down on a Suffolk ham terrine with loganberry compote, which I've been anticipating the taste of for the last 63 days. So what can a contrary difficult to please person like me have for brunch at a Bakery and what can I have here? Eggs any way I want them? Sometimes yes, but today, I don't know. Pancakes with an array of teeth shattering sugary toppings? Organic Golden Syrups? Agave, even, fresh exotic fruits like the curiously tasteless dragon fruit, perhaps chocolate ganache with bouncing blueberries? Probably not today. What about Muesli or a glorious homemade granolas? Nope. Definitely not, if I can pour it out of a box at home, or I've woken up in a bed that is within slipper wearing distance and this cereal is part of a buffet and breakfast is a tsk inducing experience as I see people stuffing pain au chocolates into their backpacks, no. Pain au chocolates? Enough. Let the inner rumbles of my hunger haunt me, let my indecision scrape at my empty stomach. In a particularly indecisive mood during a brunch date; my date tucked into eggs florentine, a girl nearby comparing swathes of fabrics and tweeting their thread counts, pushed a grape around a plate and let a perfectly good cappuccino go flat until the chocolate had turned into a hard disk on the cooled milk. A gentleman nearby loudly cracked a financial times blowing crumbs of a perfectly crisp Almond Croissant from his plate all over his waistcoat, where I'm sure no doubt, flecks of sweet pastry would be found in his pocket watch pocket weeks later. This place is a local haunt "where everybody knows your... ", preference of non-dairy milk. After noticing a varie-Tea of Suki Teas that could be blended with ice and mixed like a cocktail, I was sold on the concoction of Apple Loves Mint which cooled my clammy neck as I felt flustered and hot with any calamitous decision I was about to make about food and had absolutely, no more time to stall on my order. After our waitress had given me more than a moment, a few minutes more and even allowed me a final check at the desk just to make sure I wasn't making the wrong choice, I spotted the average person's midweek elevenses favourite. Octopus. A large plate of, sliced, firm but tender tentacles trimmed into medallions. Light and lemony dressed in an impossibly sweet nutty olive oil and finely chopped parsley to garnish. Yes!!! Served with a side of perfectly al dente fine, fine green balsamic beans. I had met my Waterloo in Kensington. I still took a bite out of my dates, almond croissant. What? It was just to make sure! He offered! I'd give them 5 stars but with porridge at £6, I'd be there all day making up my mind on what to put on it to justify that (and no amount of Dragon Fruit/ Ham/ Tahini compote would do that!)

I came to Baker & Spice looking for pain au chocolat, and boy was I surprised. I walked in and the place was very busy with families there for breakfast and some solo people catching up on the news with coffee. I walked over to their pastisserie and found a huge selection of pastries. Of course I couldn't get just the chocolate croissant. I got that, a pear danish, and a chocolate cookie. There was a girl working there who was very attentive and came to help me bag my items (even though I could have done it myself). The pain au chocolat was buttery with a soft chocolate filling. Very scrumptious. The pear danish was also tasty, and large so I split that with my family. It wasn't as flavorful as I would have liked and tasted more like just a cheese danish but it was still very tasty. The chocolate chip cookie was crunchy and not too sweet. So good! My only jist is I wish they something to cover the pastries with because I noticed a few fruit flies around the pastries. For me, it's just not very appealing to watch little flies sit on what I'm about to eat.

1) At work I was drafted in as an amateur (cheap) stylist on a food shoot - the very trendy (expensive) photographer demanded an array of photographic comestibles from Baker & Spice. 2) My friend Mark works in the food industry in Cape Town, South Africa. On a recent research trip to London Baker & Spice was top of his must see list. 3) On their website Baker & Spice have a section offering catering on private jets. The above gives some idea of what the B&S experience will be like - some, but definitely not all. My photographer was probably thinking less of visual aesthetics than of her stomach. As gorgeous as they are, B&S creations focus more on superb (largely organic) ingredients and technique than on visuals. The food is appetizing, no doubt, but in a slightly hippy, good-earth, bountiful Mother Nature home-made sort-of way. Dainty chi-chi cupcakes you can find elsewhere. I somewhat fancied a slice of blueberry cheesecake - although it looked huge and generous, I was slightly nervous it would turn out to be disappointing stodge. The risk was escalated by the vertiginous price of a slice - second mortgages required. I needn't have worried. This was the Platonic ideal of cheesecake - although my relationship with it was savagely carnal and all-too-brief. Rich and smooth and yet deceptively light, the creaminess was set off by the tartness of the blueberries. Addiction at first hit. The service amused me. The staff seemed to regard the shop/cafe as their personal space and accommodated customers' needs grudgingly. While we were there two of them gossiped loudly about an absent colleague. For those of us on average wages, go there for a treat. For those of us with private jets, go for it!

Crowded, often noisy yet we visited here every day for a week. Lovely coffee, lovely backed goods, heavenly eggs Royale. Grab a picnic and head to the park.

If I was a permanent resident of Chelsea, I'd not pen this review (keep the crowds away) ; this wonderful little spot stuck away in the back streets is a little local secret. Terrific menu with healthy and fresh ingredients , first rate coffee - at last , a place you can get a wonderful breakfast and great coffee - all under one roof. You do need to wave wait staff down to get attention - but where in London don't you - Best breakfast /brunch in the area without doubt.

I love Baker & Spice but NOT this branch. Go to the one in Selfridges. This one closes at 7pm but the staff was obviously frowny and not-stoked when we rocked up at 6. The few salads left: red cabbage slaw, artichoke with olives, red beets in vinagarette, looked amazing but tasted like they were dressed in salt dressing (if there were to be one. The beef lasagne was awesome but not amazing enough to compensate the salt salads nor one more star! One last thing about the staff: clearly they were rushing us out giving us a 10min warning of closing when we were obviously nearly done with our meal. They should have earlier closing times rather than hinting us to leave.

Wow! Best bakery around! You must try it!

I had a really great cappucino and an excellent piece of carrot cake here once and have since sampled some of the more savoury options from the the deli display - quiche, smoked salmon etc - and while the food and atmosphere (very low-key at this branch, with high stools and counter space which I like) have never let me down, the prices are a bit of a sucker-punch.

Lovely gem in Chelsea. 5 stars for the cappuccino, to-die-for homemade granola served with yogurt and fresh berries, and the equally to-die-for avocado salad. The french toast with warm cinnamon apples was also excellent. I recommend this spot for a cozy weekend brunch.

Really delicious croissants, at a price....but probably worth it.

Ok, so I don't usually write reviews but I believe that what happened to my girlfriend and I when we went to Baker and Spice makes the review worthwhile. We arrived at 3pm and first thing we were told was that their system was down and they were only taking cash payments. One of the waitresses directed me to the nearest cash point (10 mins away walking) so while I went there my gf sat down in a table and waited, by the time I got back (3:20pm) and tried to order, they said they were no longer serving brunch since the chef had left (even though the menu clearly says they serve brunch until 4pm) one male waiter was prudent enough and apologised for not letting us know in advance, he then left and I was able to see how when he explained the situation to the manager, she literally just shrugged her shoulders, put on her sweater and went out of the restaurant. We were truly disappointed of the service and I still cannot believe how someone without any sort of tact or even customer service skills be in charge of what appears to be a pretty good place to eat. We ended up going somewhere else, after paying for one juice we had ordered because of course, they were not attentive enough to say it was on the house for the trouble they had caused us (like any other restaurant with decent customer service would have done)