A small bakery with a simple focus
Monopole Bakery is a micro-bakery in Shepherdswell, Kent, making naturally leavened sourdough, focaccia and small-batch sweet bakes.
It started with one sourdough loaf and a straightforward aim: to keep the range focused, keep refining what we make and make genuinely fresh bread available locally.
As the bakery develops, the same approach is being applied to seeded sourdough, focaccia, cookies and other bakes. The range will remain deliberately small, with new products added because they are worth making rather than simply to make the menu longer.
Everything is made in small batches, with orders taken in advance for the weekly Saturday bake.
Why small batch?
Production is deliberately limited.
Baking in small batches makes it possible to give proper attention to each dough and bake, keep the process manageable and maintain consistency from one batch to the next.
Orders are taken in advance, so products are baked for people who are expecting them rather than produced in quantity and left unsold.
The aim is not to offer an enormous permanent range. It is to make a focused selection of bread and bakes consistently well.
Made in Shepherdswell
Monopole Bakery is based in Shepherdswell, Kent.
Orders are baked fresh each Saturday and collected from The Bell in Shepherdswell between 2pm and 4pm. We’ll be outside the pub entrance in good weather, or inside if wet.