Violet Bakery opened on Wilton Way in Hackney in 2010 — a bakery and café operating on the logic that pastry is a serious discipline and that the room in which it is served should be as considered as the baking. The cakes are made from seasonal ingredients; the style is undecorated and precise. The café is small — a few tables, a counter, the day's production visible — and the population is neighbourhood residents and the particular kind of visitors who find it because they were looking for it. The Broadway Market crowd is ten minutes away; Violet operates at a quieter scale, facing the residential street rather than the market.
Hackney, London, United Kingdom