Blondies Kitchen

Blondies Kitchen is a small-batch cookie bakery with a micro shop on The Piazza, tucked into the Royal Opera House Arcade at the heart of Covent Garden. It is best known for hand-rolled, fresh-baked cookies, and alongside this counter it runs a flagship Cookie Bar in Selfridges Food Hall and supplies patisserie-style topped cookies to the Harrods patisserie counter.

The bakery describes itself as a small-batch operation that rolls every dough ball by hand and weighs toppings individually before baking. Ingredients are kept simple and named: pure butter, unrefined sugar, Cotswold flour and free-range eggs. Beyond the shops it runs nationwide UK delivery, takes corporate and bulk orders, works on brand collaborations and turns up at festivals through the summer.

A cookie shop on the Covent Garden Piazza

The core product is the fresh-baked cookie in its signature form, but the range stretches to 7-inch and giant cookies, bitesize cookies, personalised and photo cookies, sharing and gift boxes, brownies and cakes, bake-at-home kits and a dedicated vegan and gluten-free line. Flavours rotate seasonally, so there is usually something new alongside the regulars, and the sharing boxes double as straightforward gifts for birthdays, new babies and office orders.

What to expect on a visit

The Covent Garden store opens at midday every day, closing at 9pm Monday to Saturday and 6pm on Sunday. As the micro shop label suggests, this is a counter for picking up warm cookies rather than a place to sit, which fits the pace of the piazza. It sits among the dessert shops of Covent Garden, a few steps from Ben's Cookies, so the two make an easy side-by-side comparison for anyone serious about cookies in Covent Garden.