Country sourdough
Our everyday loaf. Blistered crust, open crumb, a gentle tang from 48 hours of slow fermentation.
£5.20
Independent bakery in York since 2016
Bread worth getting up for.
Slow fermented sourdough, flaky pastries and celebration cakes, baked by hand every morning with local flour.
- 48 hrslow fermentation
- 100%British flour
- 7amdoors open daily
- 🍞Country sourdough
- 🥐Butter croissants
- 🧁Cardamom buns
- 🎂Celebration cakes
- ☕Coffee to go
On the counter today
Four things people queue for.
Everything is baked on site in the small hours. When it’s gone, it’s gone, so the early birds really do get the cardamom buns.
Butter croissants
Laminated over three days with Yorkshire butter. Shatters properly, as it should.
£2.80
Cardamom buns
Knotted by hand, freshly ground cardamom, finished with pearl sugar. Our most asked about bake.
£3.40
Celebration cakes
Made to order for birthdays, weddings and Tuesdays that need a lift. Seven days notice.
From £38
Starter fedsince 2016
Slow by choice
Good bread takes two days. We don’t rush it.
Hearth & Crumb started with one oven, one sourdough starter and a stubborn belief that York deserved a proper neighbourhood bakery. Nine years on, the starter is still going and so are we.
- Flour from British millsStoneground wheat and rye, mostly grown within a day’s drive of the bakery.
- Nothing you can’t pronounceFlour, water, salt and time. No improvers, no premixes, no shortcuts.
- Baked through the nightOur bakers start at 2am so the first loaves are cooling on the racks by 7.
Order for collection
Your loaf, kept back for you.
Saturday sell outs are real. Order online and we’ll set your bread aside with your name on it.
Order by 4pm
Choose your bakes online for any day Tuesday to Sunday. Pay ahead or on collection.
We bake overnight
Your order is mixed, shaped and baked in the early hours, the same as everything on the counter.
Collect from 7am
Skip the queue and pick up from the collection shelf by the door. Still warm, more often than not.
Kind words
From the Saturday queue.
★★★★★
“The country loaf has ruined supermarket bread for our whole house. Worth every minute of the queue.”
★★★★★
“They made my daughter’s birthday cake with a week’s notice and it was the star of the party.”
★★★★★
“A cardamom bun and a flat white on the walk to work. Best part of my morning, every morning.”
For cafes and restaurants
Our bread on your tables.
We bake for a handful of York cafes, delis and restaurants, delivered before breakfast service six days a week. Small enough to care, reliable enough to count on.
Come and see us
Just inside the city walls.
A ten minute walk from York station. Follow the smell of fresh bread.
Opening hours
- MondayClosed
- Tue to Sat7am to 3pm
- Sunday8am to 1pm
Find us
9 Ashby Yard
York YO1 9HC
Step free entrance, dogs welcome, bring your own bag and we’ll knock 10p off.
Map and directionsCall or email
hello@hearthandcrumb.co.uk
We answer the phone from 7am, Tuesday to Sunday. Emails within a day.