Sophocles Bakery

Amazing service by a beautiful young woman very attentive. Lots of options and couldn't help but go in after smelling the produce from the outside, I bought a cake to take home and it didn't make it there so I had to go back to buy another it was so delicious I definitely want to go back for lunch

Wonderful place to get your morning coffee and choose from an impressive display of fresh bakery items. If time allows , the staff are delightful to talk to. This bakery is in the Peckham neighborhood.

Lovely independent bakery AND CAFE. Has the widest range of any bakery I've been to to date. French pastries, warm English meat pastries, Greek and Mediterranean sweets and pastries, Samosas and Asian sweets, Cakes and bespoke cake orders, Deli Sandwich making, Cheeses, American pastries, Breakfasts and hot and cold drinks. I'm sure that's not even everything and I've probably missed some things.

Greek based owners and lovely service. Not too busy at 1630hrs. I took half a kg of baklava 7£. Lovely when warmed up and with coffe or tea.

Please avoid this seller .for the 3rd time, I bought a mouldy out of date breads ..mind your health guys. Health is not a joke .

Amazing jaffa cake, very soft and light just the right amount of sweetness. Very friendly and helpful staff and owner. And the they added the Birthday wishes message as well🥳👍

My favourite bakery in London. Ignore all the moaning reviews. The filled torpedo rolls are my favourite, a real comfort lunch. All the cakes n pastries are good and reasonable price. Everyone who works there is nice and very down to earth. Go go go.

Came here today to get a cake that was closer to the tart-style creamy cakes we have in Greece, rather than the “bready” cakes with icing that they do here in the UK, for my wife’s birthday. Indeed they had a beautiful collection of them and got one. We were very disappointed when we tried it though; most of it seems to be consisted of whipped cream, making it a way overpriced product with a cheap filling. It also left a very long, overly sweet, aftertaste that has yet to go 2 hours after eating it. We are highly unlikely to have another piece and will throw it away. A big shame, as we were very excited initially. The service was really good however, and they even decorated the cake with a customised happy birthday message. I also tried some of the pastries they had; I second what others have written that the filo was very hard, probably stale or of bad quality. The sandwiches you can make seemed good, but did not try them. Also, no card payments because of a broken(?) POS… Will not likely visit again.

This rating is based off our first and only experience so far in the bakery. The staff was great and very attentive, we ordered croissants and coffee. Both tasted delicious. We plan to return every morning we are here.

Looordy, do I love me a bakery. You know, those flapjacks oozing with butter and little cakes overflowing with goodness as sweet as my mama's southern iced tea. Oh lordy, I can hardly contain myself. I walked by Sophecles Bakery and, well, if my stomach didn't start a'rumblin like the mighty waters of the Mississippi, my name just ain't Suzanne the Southern Sweet Peach. And that's my name; you got that? Sometimes though, I walk into a bakery and I feel me like a good look around before I buy. But that there lady behind the counter, well honey let me tell you, she looked at me expectantly with her black eyed peas of peepers and asked me what I wanted before I had me a good gander at what it was there to eat. She made me feel a bit like someone forgot to serve me my sausage links with my morning gritz, looordy, a bit nervous, uncomfortable. So, I felt compelled to get something even though I wasn't too sure I wanted to get one of their little sweet thangs. I got a caramel square, a caramel bit with a consistency like condensed milk on a grainy biscuit topped in chocolate. They had big pieces of sweet cinnamon bread for 80, which I almost got instead. But I didn't. I tell you, this here caramel-chocolate concoction, I was between loving it and not loving it like when you wanna bake yourself in the hot southern sun 'cause it feel so mmm mmm good, but it gives you a sunburn. I decided after comparing it to my mamas home cookin', that it was lacking a bit of zest, but that it was alright in all.

Greek Cypriot goodies, a taste from home! Although I was a bit drunk when I first discovered this place right after a heavy dinner nearby, I really enjoyed their pastries and took some home with me. Basically theres evertything thats from that side of the world, fresh and just as sweet as they should be. Its cheap and great quality, will definitely visit again.

I always hold out hope that this bakery is going to change its tune and become as good as it looks but sadly it never does. Next to Curzon, it'd almost be too good to be true to have a proper old-fashioned greengrocers and bakery next to each other, and it seems it is. There are some good bits and bobs, the baklava for example, but overall everything is often a little on the dry-side and disappointing. My housemate disagrees though and says its good value. He likes the rock cakes at 50p and the seeded brown loaves. I also once had an avocado and salad sandwich from here, which was a terrible terrible mistake: never mix avocado with butter- eugh (but that was my fault not theirs).

So, the high street's bakery. This is a good'un. Sophocles is another of Church Street's institutions - I'm guessing another relic of the days when much of the local business was Greek Cypriot-owned. So along with your Eccles cakes and Bakewell tarts you can get your baklavas, shamalis, so on and so forth... Olive bread, tahini bread, halloumi bread (confused staff - no longer Cypriot, it seems - have been known to refer to this as "Spanish bread". I'll let 'em off not knowing what the hell it's called, as it's excellent). Yup, you can get all sorts down at Sophocles! But I would say, definitely come here for the bread and the cakes, rather than any of the lunch options, which based on my last experience, are on the disappointing side, if cheap. You get some old fellas (Cypriots? I hope so!) hanging out here during the day, sipping their coffee and shooting the shit. I'd like to join 'em some time - I am getting on, after all - but I get the feeling that's probably a better idea in my head than in reality.

This bakery tends to smell better than its products taste, but all the same has such a huge array of choice that it is worth a visit. If you get the bread fresh then it's lovely, but eat it while it's still fresh because it won't keep. They have a freshly made sandwich and roll service that I've never used, because there are better sandwich places in the area, but the selection appears to be ok. The choices of bread include granary, standard brown, white bloomer, white square, pitta bread, bagels, sesame loafs and much more. Not all of these are tried and tested, but as I say, it seems to be the rule that as long as you catch it fresh, it's good.

Don't try to resist it, truly amazing goodies waiting to eaten. The good is delicious and the price is really good. Worthy of every penny spent there.