1000 Tiny Birds: 2025 edition

Bakedd

Maidenhead, 2025-09-12

We’re in the market for a very light lunch, after The Fat Duck last night, and having spent a morning stressing by a laptop in a Premier Inn trying (and succeeding) to buy Radiohead tickets, a short walk into town on the way to the train station feels like a pretty good cool-down. Despite the Maidenhead pricing, I’m a pretty instant fan of Bakedd, with a wide array of pastries, cakes, and other baked goods, beyond what I see in most Bristol equivalents. Lucky Maidenheadheads. I go for a tuna mayo roll, which is admittedly a bit much and a bit same-y after a few bites, but is perfectly nice; but, I am much more excited by my sweet option, a Baileys chocolate mousse cake, and from the first bite oh boy is it Baileys-y. The four layers are all distinct in flavour and texture, and it’s topped with the chocolate-coated digestive balls you get in Muller corner yoghurts, so that’s a nostalgic touch. I don’t finish either of them, still quite full from the night before, but I would happily return if I - for some inexplicable reason - found myself in Maidenhead again.