Wildroot
Order for tomorrow
Three fresh sourdough loaves and a baguette on a floured wooden bench

Sourdough bakery & café in Ashcombe

Slow bread for busy mornings.

Reserve tomorrow's loaves, pastries and coffee tonight, then pick them up on your way past either of our shops. No queue, no sold-out sign.

Order for tomorrowSee the menu

Order by 8pm, collect from 7:30am

Fresh out at 5am

What's in the oven tomorrow

Our six most-loved bakes. Numbers update live as neighbours order, so if something's nearly gone, it really is.

Everything we bake

Availability for Tuesday (Tue 10 Nov)

  • Wildroot Country Loaf

    £5.20Plenty
    Reserve

  • Butter Croissant

    £2.60Plenty
    Reserve

  • Seeded Rye

    £5.60Plenty
    Reserve

  • Cardamom Knot

    £3.20Plenty
    Reserve

  • Sourdough Baguette

    £2.80Plenty
    Reserve

  • Pain au Chocolat

    £2.90Plenty
    Reserve

Written up at 6am

Specials and seasonal bakes

Whatever the farm drops off and the bakers feel like making. Specials are in the shops only, and they go fast.

On the board today

  • Pumpkin & sage focacciaRoast pumpkin, brown butter, crispy sage£4.20
  • Soup & a slabRoast tomato soup with country loaf£6.50
  • Blackberry & bay bunsWhile the hedgerows last£3.40

Seasonal bakes

  • Apple & cider cakeWhole cakes to order, two days' notice
  • Plum & custard danishVictoria plums, until the end of October

Why it tastes like that

Two days of patience in every loaf

  1. 48-hour ferment

    Our starter, Doris, is eleven years old. Every loaf spends two slow days in the cool room, which is where the flavour and the easy digestion come from.

  2. Stone-baked

    Loaves go straight onto the stone floor of the oven at 250°C. That's what gives the crust its crackle and the deep, blistered colour.

  3. Baked daily

    The first tray comes out at 5am, every day we're open. Anything left at closing goes to the Ashcombe community fridge.

Weekend classes

Learn to bake it yourself

Small classes around the big bench, with lunch, coffee and far too much bread to carry home. Gift vouchers too.

Floury hands kneading a ball of dough on the bench

Come and say hello

Two shops, one oven

The green shopfront at Mill Lane with bread stacked in the window and a chalkboard on the pavement

Mill Lane

Closed now. Opens Tuesday at 7:30am

14 Mill Lane, Ashcombe, AS3 4MG
Mon
Closed
Tue–Sat
7:30am–3pm
Sun
8am–1pm
Order for collection here
Inside the Harbour Street café: a long wooden table, pendant lights and loaves on shelves behind the counter

Harbour Street

Closed now. Opens tomorrow at 7:30am

3 Harbour Street, Ashcombe, AS1 7HB
Mon–Fri
7:30am–4pm
Sat
8am–4pm
Sun
Closed
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marketharbourMill LaneHarbour Street10 min walkN
Ten minutes' walk apart, along the river

From the bench

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