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Walcot Street & Abbey area, Bath
Visitors can watch interactive glassblowing demonstrations and, on selected sessions, blow into their own bauble. The Walcot Street programme also includes hands-on courses in glassblowing and stained glass rather than retail alone.
Best for Handmade aqua glassware, jewellery and stained glass
Bath / United Kingdom
Beaux Arts Bath is a gallery on York Street in Bath that shows paintings and sculpture as well as ceramics.
Best for Paintings, sculpture and ceramics
Bath / United Kingdom
Berdoulat is a shop in Margaret's Buildings in Bath selling dining and kitchenware, with cookery books and furniture too.
Best for Kitchenware, cookbooks and furniture
Chapel Row, Bath
Opened by World Barista Championship finalist Maxwell Colonna-Dashwood, this Chapel Row cafe pours single-origin coffee brewed with exacting precision. Its multi-roaster approach and espresso have shaped specialty coffee in Bath.
Best for Single-origin coffee and multi-roaster espresso
John Street, Bath
Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights is a Bath bookshop on John Street with a strong emphasis on personal recommendations. Its booksellers offer reading subscriptions and an online recommendation service alongside browsing in the shop. The building has books on several levels, with staff offering to bring titles from the stairs-only areas to customers on the ground floor.
Best for Personal book recommendations and reading subscriptions
Bath / United Kingdom
Palette is a gallery shop on Walcot Street in Bath showing art alongside contemporary design.
Best for Contemporary art and design
North Parade Passage, Bath
Housed in what it calls the oldest house in Bath, with a cellar exposing 12th-to-14th-century monastery remains, Sally Lunn's still bakes its trencher-style Sally Lunn Bun to a closely guarded 1680s recipe, with a kitchen museum for diners.
Best for Housed in one of the oldest buildings in Bath
Sally Lunn's occupies one of the oldest houses in Bath, a building whose cellar has yielded seven excavated floor levels spanning the 12th to 14th centuries, including foundation walls from a medieval monastery kitchen and refectory. The house's own kitchen and bakery date to 1622, built around a bread oven believed to go back to around 1100. It is this kitchen, along with the archaeological finds beneath it, that forms the small museum downstairs, free to visit for anyone eating upstairs in what the house calls its 'living museum.'
The signature item is the Sally Lunn Bun, a large trencher-style brioche said to have been brought to Bath around 1680 by Solange Luyon, a Huguenot refugee whose name anglicised to Sally Lunn. The recipe has been kept a closely guarded secret ever since, traditionally passed down with the lease of the building rather than published, and the bun is still served today, split, toasted, and topped sweet or savoury, as the anchor of a menu that runs from breakfast through dinner. Afternoon tea includes a Jane Austen-themed sitting, a nod to the writer's own time in Bath. Between the bun's unbroken run since the 17th century and the medieval brickwork visible in the cellar, the building does double duty as both a working eating house and one of the city's oldest surviving structures.
New Bond Street Place, Bath
Founded by French baker Richard Bertinet, this Bath bakery turns out sourdough and viennoiserie by hand. Croissants, pastries and a cafe have made it a fixture of the city's food scene.
Best for Artisan sourdough, croissants and pastries
Walcot Street, Bath
This Walcot Street cheesemonger matures and sells British and Continental artisan cheeses. Its cafe and counters also carry the company's own crackers, chutneys and provisions.
Best for Artisan British cheese, crackers and provisions
The Paragon, Bath
Topping & Company's Bath branch, open since 2007, moved in 2021 into a former Quaker meeting house designed in 1818 by William Wilkins. Rolling ladders reach floor-to-ceiling shelves, free tea is poured for browsers, and author events run regularly.
Best for Sliding-ladder bookcases and free tea in Bath
Topping & Company opened its Bath branch in 2007, the second shop from Robert and Louise Topping after their original Ely store launched in 2002. After fourteen years on The Paragon, the Bath shop relocated in December 2021 into the former Friends Meeting House on York Street, a building designed in 1818 by William Wilkins, the architect later responsible for London's National Gallery. The building has cycled through several identities since then -- Masonic lodge, chapel, assembly rooms, and Quaker meeting house -- before becoming a bookshop. Inside, the shop follows the chain's signature look: floor-to-ceiling bookcases reached by rolling ladders, hand-painted section signs, and stock that runs into the tens of thousands of titles across multiple floors. True to the Topping house style found at its other branches (Edinburgh, Ely, St Andrews, York), staff pour free tea and coffee for browsing customers, and the shop runs a regular programme of ticketed author events. It's a shop built around lingering rather than a quick errand -- tall shelves, a ladder to reach them, and a cup of tea to make the browsing last.
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