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Est. 2014 · Bakery and kitchen
PINHOOK BAKEHOUSE
14 Pinhook Street, Arnshaw
Open now · Thursday 25 September

The rye is out, the kettle’s on and the door opens at seven.

A neighbourhood bakery with a small kitchen on Pinhook Street. We bake through the night, cook breakfast and lunch from the same oven, and lay one long table for supper on the third Friday of every month.
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BAKED FROM
04:30
THIS MORNING
Today’s opening line
Thursday, 25 September
Doors open
07:00
Sourdough and rye out
07:30
Cardamom knots
09:00
Lunch from the kitchen
12:00 to 15:00
Focaccia top-up
15:00
Next supper club
Fri 17 Oct
Times are when the trays reach the counter, not when they sell out. The rye usually goes by eleven.
What we bake

Out of the oven, on the hour.

Everything is shaped by hand on one long bench between four and six in the morning. We bake small batches through the day so there is always something warm on the counter.
The bench at 5am. Every loaf is scored by hand.
Daily bread schedule
Tuesday to Sunday
07:30
Pinhook country sourdough
£4.80
Our house loaf. A 36-hour ferment, a dark crust and a 900g round.
07:30
Seeded rye tin
£4.20
Sunflower, pumpkin and linseed. Slices thin and keeps for a week.
08:00
Baguettes, three bakes a day
£1.90
Out at 8, 11 and 3, because a baguette is finished by teatime.
09:00
Cardamom and cinnamon knots
£3.10
Laminated dough, brown butter and orange sugar. Usually gone by 11.
11:00
Potato and rosemary focaccia
£3.60
Baked in deep trays for the lunch counter. Slabs to take home.
SAT
Fruit and walnut sourdough
£5.20
Saturdays only. Ask us to hold one by Thursday and it is yours.
Hold a loaf for later
Ring 01632 960 527 by 10am
On the board today

Breakfast, lunch and the counter.

Written up at seven and wiped at close. Prices in pounds. Dishes marked (v) are vegetarian; ask at the till about allergens and we will show you the recipe book.
Breakfast
8 to 11.30
Toasted sourdough, cultured butter and jam (v)
4.50
Two thick slices from the first bake.
Baked eggs, spinach and brown butter crumbs (v)
9.50
With a heel of rye for the pan.
Bacon chop in a potato bun
8.00
Dry-cured, burnt apple ketchup.
Porridge, poached pear and oat crumble (v)
7.00
Made with milk or oat milk.
Lunch
12 to 3
Soup of the day and bread (v)
7.50
Today: roast tomato and fennel.
Ham hock, pickled cabbage and mustard on rye
10.50
Hot from the oven, cut in half.
Leek and Lancashire tart (v)
11.00
Bitter leaves and a sharp dressing.
Braised beans, green sauce and focaccia (v)
10.00
Vegan if you ask for no cheese.
From the counter
All day
Pork and fennel sausage roll
4.20
Rough puff, black pepper.
Cheese and onion pasty (v)
4.80
Mature cheddar, slow onions.
Brown butter blondie (v)
3.40
Salted, a little underbaked.
Filter coffee
2.80
Free refills while you sit in.
Can’t choose?
Half a sandwich and a soup, 9.00
Supper club

One long table, twenty-two chairs, four courses.

On the third Friday of the month we push the café tables together, light the candles and cook a set menu from whatever the bakery and Arnshaw market have that week. You sit next to strangers. Most of them come back as regulars.
Next supper
Friday 17 October, 7.30pm
The menu
Four courses, set, £45 a head
Drinks
Bring your own, £5 corkage
Dietary needs
Tell us when you book
Supper No. 31
17 Oct
7
SEATS LEFT
Friday · doors at 7pm · one sitting at 7.30
15 of 22 seats booked
To start
Warm brown soda, smoked butter
Then
Squash, sage and chestnut soup
Main
Slow lamb shoulder, flageolet beans
Pudding
Burnt honey tart, crème fraîche
Book a seat, £45
See past menus
Paid when you book. Cancel up to 72 hours before for a full refund, or pass your seat to a friend.
From the neighbourhood

Heard at the counter.

Pinned up by the till, in the handwriting of the people who said them. Names used with permission and a free coffee.
“I’ve had the same seeded rye every Tuesday for six years. They start slicing it when they see me cross the road.”
Margaret, Ashcroft Road
since 2018
“Best sausage roll between here and the coast. I have checked.”
Pete, from the allotments
Saturdays
“The baked eggs are the reason I work from home on Wednesdays.”
Kofi, Mill Terrace
Wednesdays
“My daughter learned to count with the knots on the counter. Now she orders them herself.”
Ruth, next door
every day
“We came to supper club as a couple and went home with four new friends and some starter in a jam jar.”
Hannah and Luis, Station Road
Supper No. 12
“They kept a loaf back for me every day I was visiting the hospital, and never charged for the ones I missed.”
Arthur, Canal Side
since 2014
Visit us

Pinhook Street, next to the post box.

Twenty seats inside, six on the pavement and a bench by the window for waiting on a loaf. Dogs and pushchairs welcome.
Opening hours
Open now
Monday
Closed
Tuesday to Friday
7am to 4pm
Saturday
7.30am to 4pm
Sunday
8am to 2pm
Supper club
Third Friday, 7pm
The kitchen stops taking orders 30 minutes before we close. Bread is sold until it runs out.
Address
14 Pinhook Street, Arnshaw AR4 2LB
Getting here
Bus 12 or 31 to Pinhook Cross, then two minutes on foot
Call us
01632 960 527, or say hello at the counter
EVERY
SUN
6PM
The bake list

Next week’s bread, in your inbox on Sunday.

One short email: what we are baking and on which days, when the rye tends to sell out, and supper club dates two days before anyone else. No offers and no noise.
One email a week. Unsubscribe from any of them. We never share your address.
hello@pinhookbakehouse.co.uk
PINHOOK BAKEHOUSE
Baking on Pinhook Street since 2014