There’s a moment, just inside the door of our London shop, when the scent of warm pastry does the remembering for you. Steak and ale pies in proper shortcrust. Sausage rolls that flake down your jumper if you can’t wait for the car. Scotch eggs, custard tarts, scones waiting patiently for jam and cream. London has always had an easy affection for the old country, and after sixteen-odd years of feeding homesick Brits and curious Canadians across Ontario, we like to think we’ve earned a small place in that affection.
The bakery counter is only half the story. Our butchery carries the craft of the family’s Crawford’s legacy — bangers made the way they should be, back bacon cut properly, black pudding and haggis for those who know exactly what they’re after. Around it, the grocery shelves do the rest: proper tea, biscuits by the tinful, crisps you won’t find at the supermarket, HP Sauce, and chocolate that tastes the way you remember it tasting.
We’re a family business through and through — nine shops across Ontario, more than sixteen years since our first counter opened in Cambridge in 2010, over a thousand five-star reviews, and a shelf of awards we’re quietly proud of. The London shop carries all of that history and adds its own: birthdays marked with proper cakes, freezers filled before winter, and first-time visitors who come in for a sausage roll and leave with a story.
Our London shop sits on Exeter Road, easy to reach whether you are running errands across the south end or making a special trip from further out in the city. There is parking on site, so it is a simple in-and-out for a pie run or a proper browse of the grocery shelves.
