Not yet, but working on it. End of April.
Can't happen soon enough. The prices are ludicrous for a Japanese bakery and the stuff used to make the goods is not priced equivalently higher in London. And Ealing? Not the highest rent part of the city. I'll turn around at Acton usually, getting too far out past the Bush at a that point.
. I think there is perceived scarcity on the part of the customers or a hunger for goods which if in Japan make sense but overseas (as a Japanese resident) here are too many much better bread options. There is no comparison to a Danish bakery. With London's bakery options that are not Japanese I never miss the baked goods at home (Tokyo) at all. Still it will be a longish trip and I do find myself with an afternoon to spare in April and will have wheels so who knows?
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prices aren't really high for being London. I mean, just a couple examples: a baguette at £1.80 is 30p higher than at a supermarket, and 40p lower than the staple of gentrification, Gail.
Similarly, all their sweets and savoury options are priced at around £1.70/£1.90: the boggest of the bog standard croissant at Gail is £2.10. Ole & Steen, another bakery/coffee shop that rhymes with gentrification, doesn't have anything with filling for less than 3 quids. Sure, if you live in Japan then you don't need to schlep it all the way there, but for an individually-owned place they're not bad. To be honest I struggle to think of an actual baker - as in a place where they bake their own stuff - in my wider neighbourhood, from Hammersmith to Ealing.