E5 Bakehouse

Ben Mackinnon left sustainability consulting to bake, and by 2011 had a company and a railway arch under the London Fields line; the operation now fills three arches on Mentmore Terrace and does something almost no London bakery does — stone-mills nearly all its own flour on site, on a French Astrié mill, grain to loaf under one curved roof. A sister bakehouse in Poplar anchors the Just Bread programme training refugees into the trade, disclosed here as the operation's other arch. The Good Food Guide listed it among the country's destination bakeries for 2026; the queue on a Saturday reached that verdict years earlier.