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.
- Open on Saturday and Sunday mornings at the bakehouse
- The Cheese Society, St Martin’s Lane, Lincoln
- Bread + Cheese van, around the county
- All Saints Farmers Market, fourth Saturday of the month 9AM-12PM: St. Matthias Church car-park, Burton Road
Super Lincs bakery
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
Iranian baker, Taha, bakes flatbreads to order while you wait – eat them fresh and hot from the oven.
Vines Bakery
- Vines Bakehouse, Unit 4 Saxilby Enterprise Park, Lincoln LN1 2LR
- Stokes, High Street, Lincoln
- Redhill, Bailgate, 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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