Bread Ahead Bakery | Borough Market

From sourdough mastery to delicate pastries, Bread Ahead's Borough Market school offers an impressive spectrum of hands-on baking workshops that cover virtually every corner of the baking world. Based in London's historic Borough Market, this well-established bakery school teaches everything from Doughnuts and Pizza & Focaccia to Croissants & Viennoiserie and International Baking traditions.

The programme spans quick seasonal workshops to intensive multi-day courses. The 90-minute Hot Cross Bun Express Experience teaches mixing, shaping and glazing techniques for from £45, whilst evening workshops like Bagels & NY Baked Cheesecake combine savoury and sweet skills - you'll master boiling bagels for their signature chewy texture and baking cheesecake to achieve that perfect 'wobble' in the centre. The Pizza & Tiramisu Workshop focuses on Roman-style rectangular pizza technique alongside classic Italian dessert preparation.

Three-hour workshops explore specific baking traditions in depth. The Introduction to Sourdough Baking Workshop covers creating your own starter, making brown levain and 100% rye bread, plus the no-knead method. The Croissant Workshop teaches enriching and laminating dough to create proper flaky layers. International offerings include Turkish pide flatbread with olive oil enriched dough, South American empanadas with intricate crimping techniques, and Portuguese custard tarts with caramelised custard and crispy pastry.

Full-day workshops provide comprehensive skill building. The Complete Sourdough Workshop covers creating starters and producing simple sourdough, 100% rye, brown levain and baguettes. The Patisserie Workshop teaches laminating enriched dough for croissants, pain au raisins and pain au chocolat, plus creating sweet pastry for fruit, custard and frangipane tarts.

Bread Ahead suits bakers at all levels, from complete beginners seeking foundational skills to experienced bakers wanting to explore specific techniques or international traditions.

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Reviews

Location

Borough Market, Cathedral St, London SE1 9DE

A few things we think are worth having if you want to keep baking at home.

Equipment

Lodge Cast Iron Dutch Oven

The best affordable way to bake artisan-quality loaves at home.

~£65View on Amazon

Equipment

Banneton Proofing Basket Set

Essential for shaping sourdough. Gives your loaves that beautiful spiral pattern.

~£18View on Amazon

Book

Tartine Bread - Chad Robertson

The sourdough bible. Start here if you're serious about bread.

~£28View on Amazon

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