The Nordic Bakery offers comfort food Scandinavian style, with cakes and pastries being a particular speciality. On any given day, you can find Swedish Tosca cake, poppy seed and ginger cakes, as well as fabulous Finnish cinnamon buns, which are utterly divine. There are also plenty of tasty savouries, including open rye sandwiches with ham and Jarlsberg, gravadlax or smoked salmon. Food is based around seasonal fare and low-fat options where possible. There is also plenty of tea, and excellent quality, strong coffee to wash it down with.
Food is available to eat in or take away, but unless it is a particularly beautiful day it is wonderful to sit inside this peaceful, uncluttered, and uncomplicated café. The Nordic Bakery interiors are minimalist as you might expect, with cool, muted colours, dark woods, and functional IKEA-style furniture.
There are a variety of rye breads baked daily to take home, which are light, tasty, and nothing like the heavy stodgy stuff you get in supermarkets. You can also purchase preserves and juices from the Tillmans of Sweden range, with Scandi flavours such as lingonberry, raspberry and Arctic cloudberry. You can even buy cases of hand-bottled natural blueberry juice.
Nordic Bakery have a main branch in Soho, and a sister site in Marylebone. A third branch is due open in May 2012. The bakery has also published a cookbook in 2011, with plenty of sweet and savoury recipes.
