Six places for real bread in Lincoln


SuperLincs, Lincoln High Street

If you don’t want to get floury yourself, there are a number of fantastic Real Bakers in Lincoln.

I recommend paying a visit to all of them, and enjoying the surprising diversity of real bread that is available on our doorstep, and meet some of the wonderful bakers. Bakers are nice. I don’t know what it is. In my experience, they are all lovely people!

Six places for Real Bread in Lincoln

Grain of Truth Bakery

Unit K, Peregrine Mews, Dowding Road, Lincoln, LN3 4PH.

Super Lincs bakery

116 High Street, Lincoln

The amazing bakers in the bakery at the back of Super Lincs on Lincoln High Street bakes a wonderful range of breads from diverse traditions, (almost) all of them sourdough. 

Rayan Food Store

115A High Street, Lincoln

Iranian baker, Taha, bakes flatbreads to order while you wait – eat them fresh and hot from the oven.

Vines Bakery

Vines Bakery

24 Steep Hill, Lincoln

Bailgate Deli

Gordon Road (off the Bailgate), Lincoln

Fresh bread from the Welbeck bakery, just over the border in Nottinghamshire, served in the cafe and sold at the counter.

Your home! It takes a bit longer. Fine. 

Buy locally stone-milled flour from Maud Foster Mill from Redhill on Bailgate, or Doddington Hall farm shop.

#RealBread

Is there a wonderful Real Bakery in Lincoln that we don’t yet know about? Let us know, and ask them to register on the Real Bread map https://www.sustainweb.org/realbread/map/

Find out more https://www.sustainweb.org/realbread

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3 responses to “Six places for real bread in Lincoln”

  1. Ahmed avatar
    Ahmed

    Great, thanks for this Laura!

    Pedantic note re the Farmers’ Market at the church in Burton Road – we’re Orthodox : )

    1. Laura Stratford avatar
      Laura Stratford

      Not pedantic at all – thank you for the correction.

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