Sweetsmile bakery and patisserie

You're walking down Lavender Hill and the smell hits you first: proper butter, caramelised sugar, fresh bread. Sweetsmile's the kind of bakery that makes you reconsider every croissant you've eaten before. Everything's made in-house, which means the pastry cases are constantly rotating with the good stuff—mille-feuille that shatters properly, pain au chocolat that's still warm at 10am, and sourdough that actually has structure. The brunch menu takes it seriously too, though it's the baked goods that'll keep you coming back.