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Best Donut Shops in London
London's doughnut scene runs from custard-filled classics around Borough Market to bomboloni and couture doughnuts in the West End, with sourdough rings, churros and crodoughs across the city. Here are the doughnut shops we send friends to, grouped by neighbourhood so you can plan your route.
By the Underground Donut Tour team · Updated November 2026
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BOROUGH & LONDON BRIDGE
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St. JOHN Bakery (Borough Corner)
St. JOHN's bakery and wine shop sits a short stroll from Borough Market. The sugar-dusted doughnuts are filled to bursting with silky vanilla custard or bright raspberry jam. Our Borough tours start right here.
Also on our tour: London Borough Market: Choose Your Own Sweet Treats & Tea; London Small Group Holiday Tea & Doughnuts
Donut Tour Recommends: Vanilla Custard Doughnut
BOROUGH & LONDON BRIDGE
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Bread Ahead (Borough Market)
Bread Ahead started in Borough Market, and its giant filled doughnuts are among the best known in London. Expect sugar-rolled rounds of salted caramel and honeycomb, vanilla custard and seasonal specials.
Also on our tour: London Borough Market: Choose Your Own Sweet Treats & Tea; London Small Group Holiday Tea & Doughnuts
Donut Tour Recommends: Salted Caramel & Honeycomb Doughnut
BOROUGH & LONDON BRIDGE
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Bird & Blend Tea Co. (Borough)
A colourful tea shop beside Borough Market with a wall of around 100 loose-leaf blends to sniff and sample. A tea latte here is the perfect partner for a doughnut.
Also on our tour: London Borough Market: Choose Your Own Sweet Treats & Tea; London Small Group Holiday Tea & Doughnuts
Donut Tour Recommends: London Fog Tea Latte
BOROUGH & LONDON BRIDGE
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Santa Nata
Santa Nata makes nothing but traditional pastéis de nata, baked in full view with a bell ringing for each fresh batch. Grab one warm, with a crisp shell and a wobbly caramelised custard centre.
Also on our tour: London Borough Market: Choose Your Own Sweet Treats & Tea; London Small Group Holiday Tea & Doughnuts; London Sweet Treats Tour: Haunted History of the West End
Donut Tour Recommends: Pastel de Nata
BOROUGH & LONDON BRIDGE
St. JOHN Bakery (Bermondsey)
The railway-arch bakery where St. JOHN's famous doughnuts are made. Visit on a weekend near Maltby Street Market and pick up a custard doughnut fresh from the arch.
Donut Tour Recommends: Vanilla Custard Doughnut
COVENT GARDEN & SEVEN DIALS
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St. JOHN Bakery (Neal's Yard)
St. JOHN's bakery and bar in one of Covent Garden's prettiest courtyards. Stop by for a sugar-dusted doughnut stuffed with jam or custard, plus bread and sandwiches.
Also on our tour: London Covent Garden Choose Your Own Sweet Treats & Tea
Donut Tour Recommends: Raspberry Jam Doughnut
COVENT GARDEN & SEVEN DIALS
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Bird & Blend Tea Co. (Covent Garden)
Bird & Blend's Seven Dials shop has tea mixologists whipping up iced teas and tea lattes from about 100 blends. The award-winning Sticky Chai goes beautifully with anything sweet and doughy.
Also on our tour: London Covent Garden Choose Your Own Sweet Treats & Tea
Donut Tour Recommends: Sticky Chai
COVENT GARDEN & SEVEN DIALS
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Buns From Home
A lockdown baking project turned cult Covent Garden stop for hand-rolled buns. They come gooey in the middle and generously glazed.
Also on our tour: London Covent Garden Choose Your Own Sweet Treats & Tea; London Sweet Treats Tour: Haunted History of the West End
Donut Tour Recommends: Cinnamon Bun
COVENT GARDEN & SEVEN DIALS
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Rodeo Doughnuts (Covent Garden)
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Rodeo hand-makes its doughnuts on site and gives them cheeky celebrity-pun names, with vegan and gluten-free options too. Open late on Saturdays for a midnight sugar fix.
Donut Tour Recommends: David Hasselhoff Doughnut
COVENT GARDEN & SEVEN DIALS
Donutelier (Charing Cross Road)
Donutelier comes from Israel's famous Roladin bakery and treats doughnuts like couture, with glossy, jewel-like finishes. The pistachio with Chantilly cream is a showstopper.
Donut Tour Recommends: Pistachio Doughnut
COVENT GARDEN & SEVEN DIALS
Aguamiel Churros Mexicanos
London's Mexican-style churrería, serving cinnamon-dusted churros with dulce de leche, condensed milk or chocolate for dipping. Wash them down with horchata or café de olla.
Donut Tour Recommends: Churros with Dulce de Leche
SOHO & WEST END
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Bread Ahead (Leicester Square)
Bread Ahead's West End bakery stays open late, so it's perfect for an evening doughnut. The crème brûlée doughnut with its crackly torched top is the one everyone is posting about.
Donut Tour Recommends: Crème Brûlée Doughnut
SOHO & WEST END
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Bombolone Doughnuts
A couple who fell for bomboloni in Tuscany opened this Italian doughnut café just steps from Leicester Square. The brioche doughnuts are piped full of pistachio cream, vanilla or tiramisu.
Also on our tour: London Covent Garden Choose Your Own Sweet Treats & Tea
Donut Tour Recommends: Pistachio Amore
SOHO & WEST END
Donutelier (Carnaby Street)
Donutelier's Carnaby boutique serves picture-perfect filled doughnuts in the heart of Soho. Try the Rochers Gianduja for a rich, hazelnutty treat.
Donut Tour Recommends: Rochers Gianduja
SOHO & WEST END
● Black-owned
Borough 22 (Selfridges)
Selfridges Food Hall, 400 Oxford St
Borough 22's Selfridges counter makes doughnuts for everyone, with gluten-free, plant-based and halal-friendly options. Fun flavours like the cereal doughnut keep the whole group happy.
Donut Tour Recommends: Cereal Doughnut
SHOREDITCH & EAST LONDON
Crosstown (Brick Lane)
Crosstown's Brick Lane shop makes sourdough doughnuts, including plenty of vegan ones, and stays open late. Grab a cinnamon scroll or a seasonal filled doughnut for the walk through Spitalfields.
Donut Tour Recommends: Cinnamon Scroll
SHOREDITCH & EAST LONDON
● Women-owned ● Asian-owned ● Viral on social media
Greedy Cow Bakes
This Hackney Road bakery went viral for its Korean milk doughnuts, split and piled high with whipped cream. Look out for South Asian-inspired flavours like gulab jamun and ras malai.
Donut Tour Recommends: Korean Milk Doughnut
SHOREDITCH & EAST LONDON
Rinkoff Bakery
A family-run Jewish bakery baking in Whitechapel since 1911. It's best known for the crodough, a flaky croissant-doughnut hybrid with fillings from salted caramel to Biscoff.
Donut Tour Recommends: Crodough
KING'S CROSS & NORTH LONDON
Crosstown (King's Cross)
Crosstown's King's Cross stall is a sweet stop before a train. Pick up a jam-filled sourdough doughnut or one of the creative vegan flavours.
Donut Tour Recommends: Raspberry Jam Doughnut
KING'S CROSS & NORTH LONDON
Carmelli Bakery
A Golders Green favourite for kosher baking since 1987. Around Chanukah it's a top spot for sufganiyot, the classic jam-filled doughnuts.
Donut Tour Recommends: Sufganiyah
NOTTING HILL & WEST LONDON
Rodeo Doughnuts (Notting Hill)
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Rodeo's Notting Hill shop is just off Portobello Road, an easy stop on a market morning. Look for colourful, over-the-top rings with playful names and plenty of vegan choices.
Donut Tour Recommends: Ice Ice Bae Bae
NOTTING HILL & WEST LONDON
Churros Garcia
A family business making churros for more than 50 years, mixing the dough by hand and frying it fresh. Served with sugar and melted chocolate, it's a Saturday market favourite.
Donut Tour Recommends: Churros with Hot Chocolate
SOUTH LONDON
Crosstown (Battersea Power Station)
Crosstown's Battersea shop sits inside the power station, made for pairing with a riverside stroll. The zingy vegan lime and coconut is a long-time fan favourite.
Donut Tour Recommends: Lime & Coconut Doughnut
SOUTH LONDON
Ayres Bakery
A much-loved Nunhead neighbourhood bakery with classic jam doughnuts and vegan options in the window. Pair a doughnut with a loaf for the road.
Donut Tour Recommends: Jam Doughnut
Taste London's best on one walk
Skip the guesswork. Our guides pick the best of the best at each stop, with stories along the way.
London Sweet Treats Tour: Borough Market & London Bridge →
London Sweet Treats Tour: Covent Garden & West End Tour →
London Sweet Treats Tour: Haunted History of the West End →
London Borough Market: Choose Your Own Sweet Treats & Tea →
London Covent Garden Choose Your Own Sweet Treats & Tea →
London Small Group Holiday Tea & Doughnuts →
London Donut FAQ
Are these doughnut shops ranked?
No. Every shop here is one we would happily send a friend to, so we list them by neighbourhood instead of ranking them.
Can I try several of these on one tour?
Yes. Our Borough Market tours visit St. JOHN Bakery, Bread Ahead, Bird & Blend Tea Co. and Santa Nata, and our Covent Garden and West End tours visit St. JOHN Neal's Yard, Buns From Home, Bombolone Doughnuts, Rodeo Doughnuts and more. Lineups can vary by day and season.
Where can I find vegan doughnuts in London?
Crosstown, Rodeo Doughnuts and Borough 22 all carry vegan doughnuts, and Borough 22 has gluten-free options too.
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