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Ember & Ear

Small-batch bakery · Brockley, SE4 · since 2019

Baked this morning. Gone by four.

Sourdough, viennoiserie and celebration cakes from one deck oven on Harcastle Row. We start at 4am and bake until the counter’s full. When it’s gone, it’s gone, so pre-order and we’ll keep yours back.

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Brockley Open Tuesday to Sunday from 7:30am

Next out of the oven Rosemary focaccia at 11:00

A dark-crusted sourdough loaf with a tall, open ear, resting on a wooden board

No. 1Daily

The Ember country loaf

36-hour cold ferment
78% hydration · 15% wholemeal
900g · £6.20

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Today’s counter

The full counter, with allergens

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Mixed at 4am · last tray 12:30

The bake clock

Bakeries run on time. Here’s what comes out of the oven and when, so you know when the focaccia’s still warm.

Ways to get your bake

  1. 01 Pre-order for collection Order by 2pm, collect the next day from either site. . Sourdough loaves and a baguette in a brown paper bag
  2. 02 Celebration cakes Build your cake: size, sponge, filling, finish and a piped message. From 72 hours’ notice, from £42. A two-layer sponge with cream and fresh strawberries on top
  3. 03 Bakery school Sourdough, croissants, cake decorating and kids’ mornings. Eight to a class, Sundays and Monday evenings. Floury hands kneading dough on a wooden bench
Flour falling through low light onto a dark bench

How we bake

Slow dough, fast oven.

Heritage wheat from a farm in Kent and rye from Oxfordshire, stoneground and delivered every Tuesday. Normandy butter for the lamination. Nothing frozen, nothing from a mix.

  • Cold ferment36 hours
  • Country loaf hydration78%
  • Croissant, dough to counter3 days
  • Grain farms, both within 70 miles2
  • First tray in6:00am

Bread club

Your loaf, kept back every week.

Pick a loaf and a day, collect it from the shelf with your name on, even if we sold out at ten. Skip or pause any week before 2pm the day before.

From £5.30 a loaf, weekly or fortnightly

Build your bread club

Next in the bakery school

All classes
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A wooden crate of crusty sourdough loaves ready for delivery

Wholesale

Bread for your café, delivered by seven.

We bake for twenty-odd cafés, restaurants and delis across south-east London. Order by 8pm, delivered before you open, six days a week.

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Getting here & access

Bakehouse & shop

23 Harcastle Row, Brockley SE4 2PN

Open Tuesday to Sunday

Tuesday to Friday, 7:30am to 4pm. Saturday, 8am to 4pm. Sunday, 8am to 2pm. Closed Monday, when the bakers rest and the classes run.

Five minutes from Brockley station. Step-free entrance; one small table inside, two benches out front.

The Hatch

Arch 7, Perrymount Yard, Forest Hill SE23 1QA

Open Tuesday to Saturday

Tuesday to Friday, 7am to 1pm. Saturday, 8am to 1pm. Closed Sunday and Monday. Bread, pastries and coffee through a hatch, and pre-order collection.

Under the railway, two minutes from Forest Hill station.

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