Better Health Bakery

Better Health Bakery

Better Health Bakery is an artisan bakery based in Haggerston, East London.

We are part of Hackney mental health charity, the Centre for Better Health.

As a social enterprise we provide trainee placements to adults recovering from mental ill health.

http://betterhealthbakery.org.uk

Better Health Bakery: How One East London Enterprise Is Tackling ...

A bakery in east London is supporting people with mental health problems by teaching them to make bread.

Better Health Bakery, in Haggerston, is run by mental health charity The Centre For Better Health.

A study published last year found that people who got involved with small, creative projects felt happier and more relaxed in their everyday lives.

Discussing the connection, associate professor of psychological and brain sciences at Boston University, Donna Pincus, previously told HuffPost: “Baking has the benefit of allowing people creative expression.

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Where To Eat And Drink In... Haggerston | Londonist

But the last few years have seen a flurry of restaurants, cafés and bars sprouting up underneath railway arches, in shop basements and the corner of art galleries — for better or worse, change is coming... Note: We’re defining Haggerston as the area — mostly E8 and N1 postcodes — stretching from Hoxton station in the south to the northern edge of Stonebridge Gardens, reaching to London Fields to the east, and running up Kingsland Road and then De Beauvoir Road to the west.

And Stop Fix at Shed London sells salt beef sandwiches and St John doughnuts from a window hatch opposite Haggerston Overground station – ideal distance from Stonebridge Gardens for picking up a coffee and Reuben for a park lunch.

You'll hear the stretch of the Regent’s Canal running from Kingsland Road towards Islington called the Haggerston Riviera, which, on a grey winter's morning, sounds like an estate agent's desperate fiction.

The latter's worth visiting at any time of day or night, since their two-floor space contains multitudes: café, restaurant, bar, gig venue and gallery, with reliably good cocktails and bar snacks on hand wherever you end up.

Unlike Dalston's cluster of Turkish restaurants and the string of Vietnamese spots in Shoreditch, Haggerston’s food scene isn’t skewed heavily towards any one place of origin — although the end of Kingsland Road bordering Hoxton does have its fair share of excellent Vietnamese, with the best pho and noodle salads courtesy of Sông Quê Café or BunBunBun.

Review: Breakfast In Bread at The Barge House – The Jam Jar

If you’re looking for London’s most Instagrammable Sunday brunch, look no further than The Barge House.

Although The Barge House is an all-day restaurant, transitioning to a bar in the evenings, its Instagram profile is dominated by a single dish, their iconic ‘breakfast in bread’ (yes you read that right, bread not bed), which is revolutionising weekend brunch.

‘Breakfast in bread’ is available from 10am – 5pm Friday through Sunday (in fact that’s all that is served during that time), and there are a few different options to choose from, The Original – think your standard English Breakfast but in a loaf, sausage, mushrooms, egg etc.; The Vegetarian – tomatoes, spinach, leeks, mushrooms, avocado, asparagus, topped all with a free range egg and cheese; Smoked salmon – pretty self explanatory; Hot Stuff – essentially The Orginal, but with chorizo and spicy beans; and The Adam and Eve – a real curve ball with black pudding and baked apple.

I also noted that whilst The Barge House’s ‘normal’ breakfast menu offers a few vegan options, there aren’t any vegan items available on the weekend brunch menu, which is surprising considering the restaurant’s demographic.

If you’re looking to visit The Barge House, and I highly recommend you do, be aware that you can only book the 10am slots on the weekend, after that the restaurant operates a walk in policy for groups of less than 10 people.

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Other previous Ethical Eats events | Sustain

Lumen’s chef served up some super-local morsels in celebration of Urban Food Fortnight, using vegetables and herbs from local community growing spaces.

This event was organised by Sustain’s Ethical Eats network and the Real Bread Campaign, which are funded by the Big Lottery's Local Food scheme.

What: Ethical Eats teamed up with Capital Growth to bring together London’s enterprising food growers and sustainable chefs in preparation for Urban Food Week, which is taking place from 16th to 22nd September.

Chefs, staff and students from London restaurants, community food enterprises and catering colleges were guided on a tour of the farm by staff to learn what higher animal welfare means in practice.

When: 10-16th September, 2012 Where: Across London The week was a collaboration between restaurant network Ethical Eats; - the campaign to create 2012 new food-growing spaces by 2012; and , which promotes community beekeeping in London, to highlight the importance of buying and eating local food, urban growing and planting forage for bees.

Better Health Bakery | Restaurants in Haggerston, London

Crusts meet coaction at this east London artisan bakery, which works as a social enterprise with the Hackney mental health charity, the Centre for Better Health, to provide trainee placements for adults recovering from mental health issues.

The placements help people gain confidence and develop new skills they can use to go on to further education or future volunteer work and employment.