Good Food Guide’s 50 Best Bakeries 2026: Three Yorkshire bakeries in Leeds, York and Sheffield named among best in Britain
Among 50 bakeries in this year’s Good Food Guide’s best in Britain - three based in Yorkshire have made the list.
For its second year, the Good Food Guide has announced its 50 Best Bakeries for 2026 on Tuesday, March 24 - a line up reflecting the range and vitality of Britain’s modern baking scene.
The list honours the nation’s artisans who are experimenting with regionally grown, locally milled heritage grains and who are introducing an increasingly broad range of global flavours to the Saturday morning pastry run.
Editor of Good Food Guide, Chloe Hamilton, said: “Choosing just 50 winners was an almost impossible task given how diverse and highly skilled the British baking scene has become.
“From wood-fired sourdough in Perthshire to a central London café peddling pains au chocolat that take you straight to the streets of Paris, one thing uniting them all is sheer unadulterated deliciousness.”
Square’s head of international marketing, Lizzie Barclay, said: “Britain's bakery scene is a brilliant example of the independent spirit that makes local businesses so vital to their communities.
“From micro bakeries operating out of a single oven to multi-award-winning artisans pushing the boundaries of craft and flavour, these 50 bakeries represent exactly the kind of businesses Square is proud to support. Together with Good Food Guide, we're proud to celebrate the businesses that prove exceptional food and strong community go hand in hand.”
Three of the bakeries on the list are based in Leeds, York and Sheffield which are below in bold.
Good Food Guide’s 50 Best Bakeries 2026
Aran Bakery, Dunkeld
Arome Bakery, Covent Garden, London - New entry
August Bakery, Battersea, London - New entry
Bakers Yard Bakery, Sheffield
Bandit Bakery, Aberdeen - New entry
Beefcake Cafe, Glasgow
Breadmill Bakery, Nottingham - New entry
Chatsworth Bakehouse, Crystal Palace, London - New entry
Damsel Bakery, Crieff - New entry
Don’t Tell Dad, Queen’s Park, London - New entry
E5 Bakehouse, Hackney, London
Eric’s, East Dulwich, London
Farro, Bristol
Field Bakery, Bridgwater
Fred Bakery, Oxford Circus, London - New entry
Gorse Bakery, Newquay
Grain and Hearth, Whitstable
Hamblin Bread, Oxford
Hart’s Bakery, Bristol
Haxby Bakehouse, York
Hilda Bakery, Bristol - New entry
Imma The Bakery, Stoke Row - New entry
Kanto, Cambridge
Landrace Bakery, Bath
Lannan Bakery, Edinburgh
Levain and Cherry, Birmingham
Little Valley Bakery, Swansea - New entry
Long Boi’s Bakehouse, Manchester
Longstraw Bakery, Wiveliscombe
Lovingly Artisan, Kendal
Lucky Yu Bakery, Walthamstow, London - New entry
Mabel The Bakery, Downham Market
Native Grain, Truro - New entry
Northern Rye, Newcastle upon Tyne - New entry
Nourish Bakery, Fishguard - New entry
Nova Bakehouse, Leeds
Pastille Bakery, Liverpool - New entry
Pipit Bakery, Bradford on Avon
Pollen Bakery, Manchester
Rye Bakery and Pizzeria, Frome
Small Food Bakery, Nottingham
Solo Bread, Birkenhead - New entry
Suba Bakery, Walthamstow, London - New entry
The Garage Bakehouse, Market Harborough
The Lost Mill Bakery, Crowes - New entry
The Wild Loaf, Liverpool - New entry
Toad Bakery, Camberwell, London
White Horse Bakery, Holme-next-the-Sea - New entry
Wild Hearth Bakery, Comrie - New entry
Wooster’s Bakery, Bury St Edmunds