Huffkins Stratford

Walk past the Tudor beams on Bridge Street and you'll find yourself in a proper working bakery where they're actually baking. It's the kind of place where the smell of fresh bread hits you before you've even stepped through the door of Old Red Lion Court. You can watch them pulling loaves from the oven, which somehow makes that £4.50 sourdough taste even better. The café seating means you're not just grabbing and going—you're meant to linger with a flat white and a still-warm croissant, watching the theatre crowds and locals drift past the window.