yummy sTopovers: exploring uae’s bakeries
The smell of freshly baked bread is hard to ignore once you step into any of your community bakeries. Whatever be the season — go the extra mile and order yourself a warm loaf. You won’t regret it, just give the slice one bite.
“I would most definitely recommend the BQ Restaurant and Bar Sourdough Loaf served during the Versailles Brunch at the St. Regis Dubai. It’s baked with Applewood cheddar and caramelised onion. I also recommend the Brioche loaf from
Thomas Keller’s Bouchon Bakery,” says Cornelia Suhr, Chef de Cuisine, BQ Restaurant and Bar, St.
Regis Dubai. Local eateries will have you spoilt for choice when it comes to the best baked goods in town. Break some bread with your friends at these spots in the uAE.
French Bakery The brown country bread, Dh13, is much loved in the city. The natural blend of yeast, rye flour, and Atlantic sea salt is a perfect treat. Top it with roasted or baked meat. Munch on their cereal bread made of maize, millet, sesame, barley and oats to enjoy the best flavours. This bread is healthy, no doubt, but also, crunchy, and goes perfectly with mixed salads — tomato and mozzarella or meat and melon. If you’re into traditional, dark breads, you’ll enjoy digging into the leavened European style sourdough rye. The bread is perfect for breakfast and to make sandwiches with pastrami.
modern Bakery This community bakery has some excellent breads just waiting to be discovered. Take, for instance, the quinoa, protein, chia, gluten and yeast-free breads — all filled with healthy ingredients that also taste delicious.
Bakemart The bakery claims that it ‘knows bread’, and that ‘baking is an art, science, and passion’ at
Bakemart. The variety of croissants is incredible. Choose from their tumeric, dill, mustard, saffron, date, walnut, and Za’atar ciabatta. fancy some Irish soda bread? or, perhaps, a rye polish and long fermented baguette? Pick from a variety of their breads — Toscana capricha, seeded rye, dachstein, granary, and pumpernickle.
al jadeed Bakery
Ube ensyamada, Dh2.5, is a sweet and tasty bread that’s popular at this joint. Ube is sweet bread that’s filled with sweetened ube (purple yam), shaped like a scroll, and topped with creamed butter, sugar, and grated cheese. Pandecocoa, Dh1.5, are filipino rolls stuffed with desiccated coconut and condensed sweetened milk. You can’t give the Spanish bread, Dh2.5, a miss.
Katrina sweets & Confectionery Wish to go beyond everyday sliced bread? Try their vanilla bun, Dh8.5; brioche bread, Dh16; and zebra toasted bread, Dh8. You can also sample the raisins bread, Dh8 or the country bread, Dh8.