Lovely Rita's Bakehouse

You'll find Lovely Rita's tucked into Stag Works on John Street—that's the Highfield end where all the creative types have been quietly colonising old industrial spaces. Walk in and you're immediately hit with the smell of proper fermented dough and butter, the kind that makes you understand why people queue. The setup is deliberately unfussy: bare brick, minimal faffing about, just very good bread and pastries that taste like they've been made by someone who actually cares. It's become the kind of place where you pop in for a sourdough on Tuesday and by Friday you're wondering what they've got that's new.