Burlington, Ontario
Since 2018, our Burlington shop has paired a hardworking bakery counter with the deepest imported grocery shelves in the family — proper pies, British meats, sweets and crisps included.
British Pride Bakery
451 Guelph Line
Burlington, Ontario
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A full British bakery, butchery and imported grocer under one roof.
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When we opened the doors of our Burlington shop in 2018, we set out to build something bigger than a bakery — a proper British grocer for Halton, with a fresh bakery counter at its centre and shelves that run deep with the things expats actually miss. Sixteen years after the family business began in Cambridge, Burlington is where the whole idea comes together in one place: pies and sausage rolls baked our way, British meats in the fridge, and aisle after aisle of imported sweets, crisps, teas and pantry staples from home.
The bakery counter does what it has always done best — steak and ale pies with pastry worth the name, sausage rolls that don’t apologize for themselves, scones, cakes and the sweet things a British childhood was built on. Alongside them sit the meats: bangers, back bacon, black pudding and haggis, made in the Crawford’s butchery tradition our family carries on at Niagara. Then come the aisles — biscuits, chocolate, proper tea, brown sauce, the crisps you can’t explain to Canadian friends — stocked with the care of people who miss these things too.
Burlington suits us. It’s a lakeside city full of people who grew up on Sunday roasts and seaside chips, and it has taken the shop to heart — more than a thousand five-star reviews across our family of shops say it better than we could. As the flagship of nine family-run stores across Ontario, the Burlington shop is where everything we’ve learned since 2010 — the baking, the butchery heritage, the importing — lands on one very busy set of shelves.
Our flagship sits on Guelph Line, an easy drive for shoppers across Burlington and the surrounding towns, with parking on site so you can load up a full trolley and go. It’s a convenient stop whether you’re popping in for warm sausage rolls or doing the whole British shop in one visit.
Worth the drive
Ask anyone in Aldershot and they’ll tell you Burlington’s west end hasn’t been far from a proper sausage roll since 2018. But the shop’s pull goes well past the city line. Waterdown families come down the escarpment for steak and ale pies and a boot-full of imported groceries, and on a Saturday morning you’ll hear accents from every corner of Britain in the queue for scones and fresh bread.
From Oakville it’s an easy run along the lakeshore for black pudding, back bacon and the chocolate bars that taste like being ten years old again. Milton’s British families have made the drive part of their routine too — down for haggis before Burns Night, hot cross buns before Easter, and a top-up of teas, sauces and crisps the big grocers never quite get right. Wherever in Halton you start from, the trip tends to end the same way: a full bag, a warm pie, and a plan to come back.
Getting here
The shop is just off the QEW at Guelph Line, which makes it an easy stop from most of Halton. Drive times are without traffic.
About 20 minutes along the QEW
Looking for a British grocer near Oakville? Head west on the QEW and come off at Guelph Line. North Oakville is just as close to our Mississauga shop on Financial Drive, so pick whichever suits the day.
British food delivered to OakvilleAbout 15 minutes along Lakeshore Road
From Bronte and west Oakville the lakeshore is the pleasant way in. Pick up a steak and ale pie for tea and a pack of Irish bangers for the weekend fry.
About 20 minutes, mostly straight down Guelph Line
Come for the butcher’s counter: black pudding, white pudding, back bacon and proper bangers, with the bakery and a full British grocer under the same roof.
British food delivered to MiltonAbout 10 minutes down the escarpment
Close enough for a weekday pie run: sausage rolls, steak pies and Cornish pasties from the counter, and tea, biscuits and crisps on the way out.
Can’t get to one of our shops? Order online and our family at The Great British Shop will deliver, anywhere in Canada.
In Burlington
Our flagship carries the widest imported range we stock — sauces, pickles, teas, biscuits, crisps, chocolate and the pantry staples a British kitchen leans on. Come for one thing and it’s easy to leave with the week.
Steak and ale, steak and Guinness, steak and Stilton, chicken and leek, and the classic mince beef and onion, baked in-house the way they should be. Grab a couple hot for tonight and a few for the freezer.
Flaky pork and beef sausage rolls, Cornish pasties and Scottish bridies, plus scotch eggs for the road — the handheld end of the bakery, best still warm from the case.
Pork bangers, English back bacon, haggis, black pudding and Scottish sliced (Lorne) sausage — a flat, square breakfast sausage — cut and ready for a proper fry-up or a Burns Night table.
Victoria sponge, empire biscuits, eccles cakes and fresh scones, from plain and raisin to cheese, soda and potato. Everything the afternoon cuppa was waiting for.
Fresh from our counters
Sirloin and earthy mushroom in a rich, savoury gravy.
Hand-cut sirloin steak and earthy chunks of mushroom in a deep, savoury gravy, under a lid of golden short pastry. The mushrooms lend a woodsy richness that makes an already hearty pie feel that bit more special.
Sirloin steak and sweet onion in a rich brown gravy.
Hand-cut sirloin steak with thick, sweet slices of onion in a deep, savoury gravy, wrapped in golden short pastry. The onions soften down and sweeten the gravy - a simple, honest combination that has fed British tables for generations.
The old-school classic - steak and kidney done properly.
Hand-cut sirloin steak and tender chunks of kidney in a deep, savoury gravy, under proper short pastry. Steak and kidney is a true British classic - the kidney bringing a rich, slightly minerally depth that gravy-lovers know and cherish. Made for those who want the real, old-fashioned thing.
Sirloin steak in a dark, velvety Guinness gravy.
Hand-cut sirloin steak in a deep, savoury gravy carrying the unmistakable richness of Guinness, sealed in golden short pastry. The stout adds a dark, almost velvety depth that makes this a proper cold-weather pie - hearty, familiar and full of flavour.
Sirloin steak and sharp, creamy Stilton in rich gravy.
Hand-cut sirloin steak with chunks of Stilton melting through a deep, savoury gravy, under a lid of golden short pastry. Stilton is England’s great blue cheese, sharp and creamy at once, and here it turns a classic steak pie into something quietly indulgent.
Comforting mince and onion, just like you remember.
Seasoned ground beef and diced onion in a deep, savoury gravy, wrapped in golden short pastry. Mince and onion is the humble, comforting pie of British childhoods - soft, rich and endlessly familiar. Simple food, done properly.
Good to know
Right here — British Pride Bakery has been baking in Burlington since 2018. Our shop pairs a fresh bakery counter of pies, sausage rolls, scones and cakes with a full British grocer, so you can pick up dinner and restock the pantry in the same visit.
We do. Haggis, black pudding, bangers and back bacon are staples at the Burlington shop, made in the butchery tradition our family has carried since the Crawford’s days in Niagara. Haggis moves especially quickly around Burns Night, so it’s worth coming early in January.
Yes — Burlington is a short drive from both, and plenty of our regulars make the trip. The bakery counter carries sausage rolls and a proper line-up of pies, baked fresh and made to be eaten warm.
Aisles of them. The Burlington shop is our flagship grocer, so the imported range runs deep — sweets, chocolate, crisps, biscuits, teas, sauces and the pantry staples that make a kitchen feel like home.
We do supply wholesale customers. If you run a café, pub, restaurant or shop in the Burlington area and would like British baked goods or products on your menu or shelves, get in touch with the team at the shop and we’ll talk through what you need.
Each season brings its own arrivals — haggis for Burns Night, hot cross buns for Easter, and mince pies, Christmas cakes and imported festive favourites in December. Seasonal stock tends to sell through, so we’d suggest shopping early.
Our current opening hours are shown on this page and kept up to date on the Burlington shop’s Google listing — a quick check there is worthwhile around holidays and long weekends.
Yes. Our Burlington shop at 451 Guelph Line is the nearest British grocer to most of Oakville, about 20 minutes along the QEW, and our Mississauga shop on Financial Drive is about 25 minutes from north Oakville. Both have a fresh bakery counter, a British butcher’s counter and imported groceries. If neither suits, our family at The Great British Shop delivers British groceries to Oakville.
Yes. Alongside our own Irish sausages and soda farls, the shop carries Brennan’s and Celtic Gourmet Irish-style bacon, pork bangers, cocktail sausages, black pudding and white pudding.
Our Burlington butcher’s counter is the closest, about 20 minutes from either. It carries black pudding, white pudding, back bacon, haggis and traditional bangers made to the Crawford’s recipes.
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