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Since opening in early 2024, Quince Bakery has cemented itself as a firm Islington fave. Just months after it debuted, the bakehouse picked up a Muddy Stilettos award for best ‘local food / drink producer’ and was named among the best bakeries in London by La Liste, a guide to the best restaurants and hotels in the world. Plus, the bakery supplies its bread to Oula, which has now been officially named the best coffee shop in London. Those crusty baguettes are definitely doing something right.
Now, residents of N1 will be happy to hear that Quince 2.0 is just around the corner (quite literally). Anna Higham, the brains behind the bakery’s delectable buns, scones and tarts, is opening a new all-day café directly across the street from the OG site. Named Clementine, the 20-cover café will be open for breakfast, brunch and lunch from Wednesday to Sunday every week. And it’s just announced that the opening date will be October 3.
A seasonally-rotating menu will be built around British produce. Think porridge topped with cream, panela sugar and apple compote or tattie scones with scrambled eggs for breakfast. Scotch pancakes will be served with butter and poached plums, while Clementine’s signature sausage sarnie will be served on Quince Bakery’s batch bread with lashings of in-house brown sauce.
Mouth watering yet? Us too, and that’s just the morning menu. Cheddar toasties, chicken and tarragon pie, a late summer vegetable soup and a Ploughman's lunch are the dishes to chow down on for lunch.
As for drinks, coffee will be sourced from Allpress and Red Bank. A rotating seasonal cordial list will include intriguing flavours like fragola grape and damson or peach and fig leaf. The caff will even have its own signature Clementine tea blend thanks to a collab with Postcard Teas
Ahead of its opening, Higham launched a crowdfunding campaign that raised over £30,000 to fit out the new café, which will open at 190 New North Road, N1 7AA.
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