Hamilton, Ontario
Handmade meat pies, sausage rolls, British bangers and black pudding, with shelves of imported groceries from home — honest, hearty fare for a city that knows the value of a hard day’s work.
British Pride Bakery
1575 Upper Ottawa Street
Hamilton, Ontario
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A full British bakery, butchery and imported grocer under one roof.
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Hamilton has never had much patience for fuss. This is a city that built things — and still does — and it eats accordingly: food that is honest, generous and made by hand. That is exactly what you will find at British Pride Bakery’s Hamilton shop, where the counters are stacked with proper meat pies, sausage rolls with real heft to them, and the kind of everyday baking that turns an ordinary weekday supper into something worth sitting down for.
We are a family-owned Ontario business, and we have been at this for more than sixteen years — since our first shop opened in Cambridge in 2010. Nine shops later, the recipe has not changed: pastry made from scratch, bangers and black pudding prepared by butchers who learned the trade the long way, and shelves of imported British groceries chosen because they are the ones we missed ourselves. More than a thousand five-star reviews and a run of awards suggest we are doing something right, but the truest measure is the regulars who come back week after week.
The Hamilton shop is built for real life. Steak and kidney pies for the freezer, sausage rolls that rarely survive the drive home, British bangers for the weekend fry-up, black pudding done properly, and grocery aisles stocked with the teas, sauces, crisps and chocolate that taste like home. Whether you grew up on this food or you are just discovering what a proper pie should be, you will be looked after.
Sitting on Upper Ottawa Street on Hamilton’s east Mountain, the shop is an easy stop on the way home, with room to park and pop in without making an outing of it. It’s central enough for shoppers coming from across Hamilton, Stoney Creek and the surrounding area to make the trip worthwhile.
Worth the drive
Ask our regulars where they have driven from and you will get half the map of the old Wentworth County. Folks from Stoney Creek and Binbrook come in for steak and mushroom pies by the half-dozen, filling the freezer for the weeks ahead, while Ancaster shoppers have a habit of arriving for one sausage roll and leaving with a boxful — still warm, and rarely intact by the time they get home.
From Dundas and Waterdown it is a short run for a proper fry-up’s worth of bangers and black pudding, along with the imported groceries that are hard to find anywhere else — real tea, brown sauce, biscuits with some backbone. And when Burns Night comes around, our haggis draws Scots (and honorary Scots) from as far out as Grimsby. Wherever you are coming from, it is the sort of trip that quickly becomes a ritual.
Getting here
Upper Ottawa Street is on the east Mountain, close to the Linc and the Red Hill Valley Parkway. Drive times are without traffic.
About 15 minutes up the Mountain
Up the Red Hill or the Mountain brow and you are nearly there. An easy stop for pies, bangers and the grocery top-up.
British food delivered to Stoney CreekAbout 15 minutes along the Linc
Straight across the Linc for sausage rolls from the oven and back bacon from the butcher’s counter.
British food delivered to AncasterAbout 25 minutes by the QEW and the Red Hill
Quicker than most people expect. Our Niagara Falls shop is the other option if you are heading east.
British food delivered to GrimsbyAbout 40 minutes along the 403
Hamilton and our Cambridge shop are both about 40 minutes from Brantford, so go whichever way the day takes you. Either way: Irish and British breakfast meats, fresh pies and imported groceries in one trip.
British food delivered to BrantfordCan’t get to one of our shops? Order online and our family at The Great British Shop will deliver, anywhere in Canada.
In Hamilton
Steak and kidney, chicken and mushroom, the classic minced beef — proper hand-sized meat pies with pastry that holds its own. Take a couple home, heat, and dinner’s sorted with almost no effort on your part.
Flaky pastry wrapped around seasoned sausage meat, the sort of thing that never quite makes it home in one piece. Grab a few for the drive, the lunchbox, or the party you said you’d bring something to.
Thick, meaty English-style sausages with the seasoning done right — not the bland supermarket sort. Fry them slow with a bit of onion and you’ve got the breakfast, or the bangers and mash, you’ve been chasing.
Sliced and fried till crisp at the edges, it’s the piece of a full British breakfast most people can’t find over here. If it’s new to you, ask us — it’s easier to love than its reputation suggests.
Fresh loaves, teacakes, crumpets and the sweet things that go with a proper cuppa. This is the shelf you’ll find yourself popping in for again and again, which is exactly how it should be.
Fresh from our counters
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.
Tender chicken, peas and carrots in a homely gravy.
Diced chicken with peas and carrots in a smooth, comforting chicken gravy, under golden short pastry. Lighter than the beef pies but every bit as satisfying - a wholesome, homely plateful that suits just about anyone.
Creamy chicken and mushroom, pure comfort food.
Diced chicken and sliced mushrooms in a smooth, savoury chicken gravy, sealed in golden short pastry. A gentle, creamy classic - the mushrooms adding an earthy note that makes it feel like proper comfort food.
Chicken and sweet leek in a gentle, creamy gravy.
Diced chicken and soft, sweet leeks in a smooth chicken gravy, under a lid of golden short pastry. Chicken and leek is a gentle British classic - the leeks bringing a mild, oniony sweetness that lifts the whole pie. Homely and quietly special.
A proper hot curry, wrapped in pastry.
Diced chicken and vegetables in a hot vindaloo-spiced curry, wrapped in golden short pastry. The curry pie is a beloved British takeaway-shop tradition - all the warmth and heat of a good vindaloo in a handheld, bakeable pie. Not for the faint-hearted.
The full fry-up, baked into one handheld pie.
The full British fry-up in a pie: sausage, British-style back bacon, Heinz baked beans and egg, all baked into golden short pastry. Everything you love about a proper morning plate, made portable and warming. A genuine crowd-pleaser at any hour.
Good to know
Right here. British Pride Bakery’s Hamilton shop is a family-owned British bakery, butcher and grocer — one of nine across Ontario — with handmade meat pies, sausage rolls, everyday baking and shelves of imported groceries from home.
We do, and we take them seriously. Our bangers and black pudding are prepared with proper butchery craft — the same tradition that runs through all of our shops — and they are a weekend fry-up staple for regulars across Hamilton and the surrounding towns.
Yes — haggis is one of the things people drive in for, especially in the weeks around Burns Night. Availability can vary through the year, so it is worth asking in the shop if you are planning something special.
Our Hamilton shop is an easy trip from Stoney Creek, Ancaster, Dundas, Waterdown and Binbrook, and the grocery shelves are stocked with imported British teas, chocolate, crisps, sauces and biscuits — the brands you grew up with, or the ones you have been meaning to try.
We welcome wholesale enquiries. If you run a café, pub or shop in the Hamilton area and would like to talk about pies, sausage rolls or baked goods, get in touch with the shop and we will point you to the right person.
Absolutely — the calendar matters here. Expect haggis around Burns Night, hot cross buns at Easter, and mince pies and Christmas puddings as December approaches. Seasonal favourites go quickly, so it pays to plan ahead.
Current hours are shown on this page and on the store’s Google listing. They can shift around holidays, so it is worth a quick check before you set out.
Our Hamilton shop on Upper Ottawa Street is about 25 minutes from Grimsby. From Brantford, Hamilton and our Cambridge shop are each about 40 minutes away. Our family at The Great British Shop also delivers British groceries across Hamilton and Niagara.
Yes. The Hamilton shop carries Brennan’s and Celtic Gourmet Irish-style bacon, pork bangers, cocktail sausages, black pudding and white pudding, plus our own Irish sausages and soda farls.
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