Real Bread bakeries dominate UK’s best poll

Real Bread Campaign ambassadors Aidan Monks and Peter Cook. Copyright: Ilgin Beaton / www.justsourdough.com

Published: Thursday 2 February 2023

Lovingly Artisan, owned by Real Bread Campaign ambassador Aidan Monks and Catherine Connor, has topped a poll by British Baker of ‘more than 100 specialists, including artisan bakers, consultants, suppliers and lecturers’ to be named the best artisan bakery in Britain.

Eight of the thirteen bakeries on the list are owned/run by Real Bread Campaign supporters, including Aidan’s fellow Campaign ambassador behind the eponymous Peter Cooks Bread.

Real Bread Campaign co-ordinator Chris Young said: “Congratulations to Aidan, Catherine, their crew and the teams at the other bakeries on the list. It’s always fantastic to see Campaign supporters, and other Real Bread bakers, get the recognition they deserve.”

Campaign supporters in the baker's dozen

1. Lovingly Artisan, Cumbria
2. The Street Bakeshop, Basingstoke
3. E5 Bakehouse, London
4. Bread Source, Norfolk
6. Northern Rye, Newcastle Upon Tyne
7. Poppyseed Bakery, Eastbourne
8. Peter Cooks Bread, Hereford
13. Freedom Bakery, Glasgow

The list also includes past Real Bread Campaign supporters Bread Ahead Bakery and The Dusty Knuckle. Both in London and Manchester’s Pollen.

The awards were presented on 31 January 2023 at the first gathering of The Artisan Collective, ‘an initiative created by British Baker to celebrate artisan bakeries and the people behind them while offering a platform to facilitate conversations and share skills.’

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Chris Young
Campaign Coordinator
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Chris Young has coordinated the Real Bread Campaign since March 2009. In addition to lobbying for an Honest Crust Act of better loaf composition, labelling and marketing laws; he created and runs Sourdough September; Real Bread Week; Real Bread For All; Together We Rise promoting therapeutic/social benefits and bread making; the No Loaf Lost surplus reduction initiative; as well as Lessons in Loaf and Bake Your Lawn for schools. He’s the author of the Knead to Know…more microbakery handbook and Slow Dough: Real Bread recipe book; and edits True Loaf magazine.

From 2014-18, Chris also coordinated the London Food Link network, which included editing The Jellied Eel magazine and helping to launch and run the Urban Food Awards. Chris has pulled on his judge’s wig for BOOM Awards, The Cateys, The Great Taste Awards, The Scottish Bread Championship and The World Bread Awards. In 2017, The School of Artisan Food honoured Chris with its first Fellowship.

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