Hobbs House Bakery in South Gloucestershire

Excellent ‘Sourdough for starters’ course - very hands on & informative, and a delicious lunch - left with armfuls of bread and other goodies. Sourdough pittas and bagels are a revelation!

I fancied tying something new, so along with a friend booked a bread making course with Hobbs House Bakery in Chipping Sodbury. I didn’t really know what to expect, but went with an open mind and an expectation to make some bread. What a fantastic day. We were greeted with freshly made, warm pasties and following introductions and some educational facts on flour, it turns out there is a bit more to it than plain and self-raising - who knew!?! we got stuck into mixing flour with water and other ingredients (don’t want to spoil it for you) and had a thoroughly informative, educational, fun day. Interspersed between the classroom/kitchen were fantastic meals, where we actually made the pittas and pizzas (yep, we made our lunch) and this was washed down with fine wines and a plethora of other beverages to suit everyone’s tastes. When they realised it was my friend’s birthday, they went the extra distance and provided a cake and candle, which was a lovely gesture. Amazing day. Thank you Jon

Sausage rolls were pink red meat inside Under seasoned meat. Couldn’t eat it. Lack of toasty choice 😵

I visited Hobbs house bakery, this morning and bought some bacon sandwiches. The order was wrong and so I went back in, to rectify the order. I was served by an older woman, with glasses and a hollister T-shirt on, who could not even make eye contact with me. She did not apologise at all, did not allow me to wait there and then, while she changed the order, but sent me back outside to queue up again. The bakery products are really good there, but the bacon is lacking, see picture below. The other staff there, were very friendly and nice, but this older woman needs to learn about customer services.

Birthday party cake, pre ordered. Was collecting by a friend and I am relieved I looked at it before. We had just enough time to make our own. Chocolate raspberry brownie cheesecake! Unapologetically the ugliest cake I have ever had. What we ordered, what we got (never got better what way up) what we did with it (bin it) my 14 yr old made her own cake. Staff were not friendly when ask why it was so bad… So there you have it!

Hi There I'm new to Hobbs and I happened to be craving a pasty on this rainy day to warm my soul and through the corner of my eye I spotted your bakery. I had to investigate as my belly commanded. And oh my the taste combined with the presentation of said pasty left me feeling humbled and emotional but in the best way. I thought In my 38 years of pasty eating I had seen and consumed the best. I now realise this was not the case. I never thought a pasty could impress me enough to send an email of thanks but my taste buds drove me to do so. The lady that served me was lovely and I aim to purchase many more pastys from her and a new wardrobe as I grow :) thank u very much x Chipping sodbury bakery today :) Big Carl x

I have ordered various boxes from Hobbs before and always excellent delivery service and packaging . Had the chocolate and walnut sour dough bread amazing and so are the hot cross buns ! Thank you Hobbs excellent product and service

Out of this world tasty sausage rolls! Normal sausage meat flavour - herby and delicious, also did chorizo sausage ones - heavenly! Went back twice...

I attended this day course last Saturday and thoroughly enjoyed it. The instruction was good, the welcome pastries and coffee and the lunch were delicious, and the bread we made and took home was really good. The only reason I haven't given this 5 stars is that the pack given out at the end only contained the recipes and it would have been so much more useful to have a reminder of the methods and tips.

Having used different bakeries before I wanted to try these guys given their stories on their “marketing&publicity” materials (incl. their own bread bags) ; Bought a sourdough spelt bread - BIGGEST MISTAKE! Tasteless (like bread soaked in the water) and very soggy and sticky ... as for sourdough? Maybe they took a picture of the sourdough and attached to the oven while cooking. NOTHING like the real thing!! Whoever likes PROPER ARTISANAL BREAD, TRY The Assembly Bakery! PROPER STUFF and always the best you can get. I will cheerfully and happily travel the extra mile and get proper bread than “artisanal LOOKING” one tat tastes like rancid.... sorry guys but I’m being honest!

A lovely place and beautiful setting for a bakery course for children. A little strict with the teaching which took some of the fun out of it.

Great bread and cakes. Quite expensive but good for a treat: also got a free coffee with the cake of the day!

I had a lovely Birthday present of a sourdough baking course which I attended yesterday at their baking school. Although I have been baking with sourdough for 6 months, I found the course really helpful.. there were quite a few beginners too who all went home well fed and happy to start their sourdough journey. We all made lots of things on this course, from pitta bread to bagels to pizza and of course bread and it was fun, informative and felt a very personal experience as Tom Herbert talked about his journey as a 5th generation baker. I thoroughly enjoyed it and might well be back for one of their other courses (pie making, yeasted bread making etc). The school is run from the lovely old building above the shop on the high street and Tom made time to answer our many questions ensuring we all get something out of the course. We came home with a mini loaf to bake, a 64 year old sourdough starter and lots of recipes. Make sure you book ahead as the courses get filled up easily but it was one of the best presents I’ve ever had! Super well done!

We’re so lucky to live just 2 minutes walk from this great shop. Wonderful selection of bread and rolls. The cake display is pretty good too. Friendly staff. Nice butchers next door as well.

No cafe on the premises anymore Good range of loaves from basic white to sourdough with all the trimmings. The bread will look expensive compared to the average supermarket sliced white, but its like comparing apples and pears. The staff are friendly, it can get busy and crowded at times, they now take card payments which speeds things up - but go early if you want a particular loaf as they sell out, especially at weekends. The bread is widely used by event and commercial sandwich makers so don't be surprised if your chosen loaf has been bought up in a batch of 10. All the cakes and sweet stuff is lovely and priced just high enough to make it a treat rather than a regular gut expanding purchase. Shares a doorway with a nice butcher - so you can get you bacon for a sarnie there too, which is a bonus!

We had made a special journey en route from Cardiff to visit the café which has now closed so we had to make do with a loaf each to take away and some sweet treats. I had the lardy cake which was immense and my friend had the Viennese whirl which she equally raved about. The prices are at a premium as I guess extra has been added due to who owns the bakery and the success of their tv show and book, however for an occasional treat it was really lovely and I recommend a visit if you are nearby.

Thinking about ordering online from Hobbs House Bakery to have bread delivered to your door?Think again. We've experienced this bakery's home delivery service deteriorate dramatically over the past 2 years.All told, before the home delivery service plummeted in quality, we had ordered about 100 loaves in different home deliveries. For the first year, the deliveries were fine.Then, as problems developed with errors and mistakes in their bread deliveries, we were made to feel that we were 'bothering' them when we phoned to ask them to make things right... such as accidentally failing to deliver all of the bread on the same day and slicing loaves which we did not want sliced, for example.Eventually, in the past two home delivery orders, we were sent loaves of their rye bread which had large cracks running through them which made it impossible to slice them without the bread falling apart into unusable pieces.There were so many loaves cracked in pieces like this that we now suspect that Hobbs were simply salvaging their cracked, defective loaves by selling them to us at full price because presumably no walk-in customer at their bakery would pay money to buy a loaf of bread like these off the shelf and what better way to get rid of defective loaves than to ship them out of town to trusting customers who weren't expecting anything like that. Selling cracked loaves to us at full price beats having to throw these defective loaves out or having to donate them to charity, at least from Hobbs perspective, we imagine. In any event, with so much outstanding competition throughout England from amazing bakeries who actually care about their customers and who care about repeat business and making customers happy, if you want to order delicious bread to be delivered to your home, go online and check out the numerous wonderful choices you have to choose from out there. On a positive note, the reason why we gave Hobbs two stars and not one star is because when you warm up the broken pieces after slicing their defective broken loaves, the bread pieces really are delicious!

Went to the shop because i was advised that they sale gf bread, a small loaf and at £4.50 a bit on the pricey side but well worth it probably the best gf bread i have tasted so far would buy it again,

So rare: Speciality breads, delicious cakes and good coffee from a family bakery in a beautiful Cotswold market town. A welcome change from mass produced fast rise breads which are harmful to the digestive system

Rollos de pan muy bueno y vale la pena el precio ya que la calidad es muy por encima de lo que te dan en el supermercado. Las tartas no son particularmente interesantes y los precios de las porciones eran pequeñas son abusivos así ir allí solamente si realmente no puedo vivir sin ella.

Fui un día para hornear experiencia en septiembre del pasado año. Debo decir que fue una sesión para ganadores de un concurso para hornear, así que no sé cómo es comparable a un "día de aprendizaje estándar" para hornear con ellos. Puedo decir sin duda que se apasionan por lo que hacen, y tendrás un tiempo muy agradable.

Hemos visitado la mayoría de los sitios de los Cotswolds y asistir a los agricultores a menudo mercado y donde Hobbs siempre stroud tienen una buena selección. Si la variedad es la especia de la vida entonces Hobbs ciertamente éxito la nota. Sólo recientemente descubierto sus tortas, en particular, su bar de excursionistas que por desgracia no está en Stroud, pero sólo en las tiendas.

Esta Panadería es muy "del momento" y el café es genial, pero para mí que es donde termina. No alcanzo a entender por qué la panadería no cubrir sus productos que muestra el frente del mostrador. Siempre estoy tentado por sus tartas de aspecto delicioso pero es tan desagradable cuando no están cubiertos y los clientes tienen derecho sobre ellas tos permanente y Dios sabe qué más, podría ser fácilmente corregido y así sería mucho más atractivo. Recientemente visité un café en Bromsgrove y todas las tortas en la exposición estaban cubiertos de cúpulas tarta, todo parecía muy atractiva y claramente mucho más higiénico. Cómo funciona este pase salud y seguridad? Yo añadiría que todas las panaderías Hobbs es el mismo.

Lo que hacen en casa, lo que Hobbs bien... Bocadillos son excelentes... No lleno de pan propiamente aditivos, de buena calidad y rellenos interesante. Bien, no es barato, pero recibes lo que pagas. Hay Pan de sherston es sin duda un ganador como es la preciosa corteza fermentado, fresco!!

Love home made bread , was expecting the loaf I bought at a whopping £2 for a small loaf to be like home made and it wasn't , only one up from commercially made bread , would have liked to try scones but they didn't look as if they had risen at all . went there because we were on holiday and had run out of our home made . money for old rope .

Called in here for an early breakfast. There were five of us and we were all very impressed with the quality of the food, lovely bacon, sausage, eggs however you want them cooked and the best bread we've ever had. Absolutely lovely.

Amazing choice of breads, sandwiches and cakes, all hand made on the premises. They also do bakery workshops.

Just needed a loaf to top up the cupboard. Spotted the attraction frontage and popped in instead of calling at the supermarket. GREAT MOVE! Good selection of lovely fresh baked goods on offer. Came out with an armful! Cold fresh healthy snacks and drinks also available. Hunks of fresh bread and butter with a coffee was all that was needed for tea!

We always try to buy local and support are independent traders. You just can't buy bread this good from the supermarket!! The butchers witch shares the same site(next door)is also very good.

I used to work in Chipping Sodbury and loved their gorgeous bread, also their variety of pastries, both savoury and sweet - and their amazingly good service. Called in last year and nothing has changed. Just wish they had a shop in Bath, where I live!

Wonderful bakery . My favourite out the four Hobbs Houses. Friendly, helpful staff. I always feel at home here. Amazing family. Try the Sherston..The best bread in the world.

Enjoyed a superb lunch here with friendly service and excellent food. Would highly recommend eating-in as well as going home with a freshly-baked dessert item.

A great old fashioned bakery with good products.Plenty of choice & pleasant staff,will be going back for more soon.

We stopped in en route to our holiday destination, had heard of Hobbs House via the Fabulous Baker Brothers (bit sad not to see one lol) we had a very pleasant drink and slice of cake, cake was beautifully light and very tasty, however the icing was way too sweet and even I, with a very sweet tooth left some of it.