Pump Street Bakery Chocolate

The Pump Street Bakery is one of our favourite places in Suffolk – a wonderful bread shop and beautifully designed café in the idyllic village of Orford. Although really it is more than that, as it has another outpost a few miles away in Snape Maltings, as well as Cedric the Citroen van that travels to different villages and towns delivering loaves and exquisite pastries. But not content with creating the most delicious bread in the county (owner Chris Brennan worked for IBM before retiring and then commencing his baking odyssey), the bakery is now building up quite a formidable reputation for its chocolate too. The latest is a Sourdough and Sea Salt bar – a 66% Venezuelan chocolate spiked with crunchy sourdough breadcrumbs and sea salt. Now if it doesn’t strike you as the most harmonious combination then just consider the perfect marriage between a dollop of pretty much any decent chocolate spread, slathered over a hunky of fresh crusty bread. Exactly – it’s genius. And better still, you don’t need to trek to Suffolk to buy it – the chocolate (and the bakery’s bread) is available to buy from their online shop and there are lots of local London stockists too, from Fortnum & Mason to Clerkenwell’s Quality Chop Shop.