A baker on a mission to make great handmade bread in Colombo working with natural sourdough.

How do I buy bread?

First, place your order here. There you can choose the option below that suits you:

When do you bake for order?

  • Tuesday - Sourdough & Ciabatta - (Ready for pick up by 1PM)

  • Thursday - Sourdough & Ciabatta - (Ready for pick up by 1PM)

  • Saturday - Sourdough & Ciabatta, Brioche & Babka- (Ready for pick up by 1PM

In Colombo? Pick up your placed order from:

We deliver your order in:

Battaramulla, Pelewatte, Malabe, and some limited areas of Rajagiriya.

We can hand over your order to a Pickme Flash driver.

Live outside Colombo? Easy.

Courier delivery outside Colombo anywhere in the island. We bake your bread fresh, pack it to keep it fresh and ship it overnight anywhere on the island. We’ve delivered thousands of loaves across the island to Cafes, restaurants and customers like you.

Courier charges start at 720/- for two loaves. Bulk rates available for cafes.

When do you bake for pickup/delivery?

Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday. Pickup/delivery after 1PM in Colombo.

   

How much does your bread cost?

Our prices are available on our order page: www.bread.lk/placing-orders

How do I pay?

If you are picking up from one of our Collection Points, you may pay by Cash or Card.

Out of Colombo: Bank transfer.

Battaramulla/Pelawatte/Rajagiriya Suburbs: Cash on delivery or bank transfer.

Where is your bakery located?

Our bakery is Thalangama. We do not have a storefront or bread to purchase there. It all gets delivered to your home or to your chosen Collection Point.

 

Storing & Eating

How long does my bread stay fresh?

Our Sourdough will last 2-4 days outside a freezer if properly stored in the brown paper bag, in another plastic bag or sealed box in a cool room. The warmer your environment the faster it loses moisture and the faster it stales. Our Brioche is the same, but says good for 2 days because it’s not made with sourdough culture, which naturally keeps bread fresh longer.

How do I store my bread?

Our bread has no chemicals or additives to artificially make it last.

Whatever you will eat in a 2 days: keep it in the paper bag inside another plastic bag, in a cool room. (Not a Fridge)

Storing longer than 2 days: Slice, place in a sealable bag and freeze. Bread freezes well for months. Toast before eating.

Do NOT refrigerate or Microwave the bread. Both dry and harden the bread.

What does this bread go well with?

Almost anything! But seriously, start by toasting any of the sourdough and have it with a smear of salted butter, (I’m a big fan of Pelwatte’s Salted Butter) or some cream cheese, or a few drops of Olive oil. Here are some more my favourites:

Country White Sourdough: Hummus and salads; Olive oil; butter and marmite (I’ll admit that Marmite is love it or hate it food); aged cheeses like cheddars; toasted with creamy scrambled eggs topped with pol sambol and bacon; or just tempered dhal and a nice curry. Aged hams and salamis.

Wholegrain Sourdough: Olive Oil; salted butter; creamy cheeses; tuna & mayonnaise; creamy eggs, either scrambled, poached, omeletes; aged hams, or go sweet! Peanut butter, bananas and kithul treacle.

Brioche: First, by itself. Then, try it with a little clotted cream and some fruit compote; or some marmalade; or if you want to be truly naughty: some Nutella. After two days, it makes heavenly French Toast.

Follow us on Instagram at www.instagram.com/bread.lk to get more ideas on what to try.

Why can’t I refrigerate my bread?

Please don’t refrigerate our bread. It goes dry, hard and stale in hours. If you need to keep it longer than 2 days: slice, put it in a sealable bag and freeze. When you want some, take it out of the freezer, give it 5 minutes to warm up and toast it. It actually the very next best thing to eating it fresh from the oven.

Should I toast my bread?

Especially if your loaf is a day old, a gentle toast will activate all that flavor and aroma.  Toasted Sourdough has a lovely chewy texture. Add a smear of butter or olive oil and enjoy! I don’t toast it dark, but you’ll find what works for you.

 

About our Breads

What breads do you make?

We make a number of Sourdough Breads and Brioche. We are always trying out new breads and will have weekly specials. Order your loaves at: www.bread.lk/placing-orders to see what is available for the current week.

How Healthy is Sourdough?

Unless stated clearly in the contents (Like honey in a fruit loaf) none of our bread has added sugar. The long fermentation process unlocks more Vitamin B, and makes the bread potentially more suitable for people who find commercially bread bloating, or harder to digest.

We also DO NOT USE ANY chemical additives commonly found in all your commercial and supermarket bread: Shelf Life Extenders, Bread Emulsifiers, Bread Improvers, Dough Conditioners, Release Agents for Bread; We use NONE of this crap.

Do you have any Gluten- Free breads?

Right now, all our bread has wheat flour and gluten. We are hoping to introduce a Gluten-Free loaf once we have mastered it.

Given our bread has little in the way of chemicals, and the flours have had long period for the natural enzyme and fermentation activity to render the bread more digestible; some of our customers who find commercial bread impossible to eat due to digestive irritation find our bread much easier on the gut.

Can I have a list of your ingredients in your breads?

All ingredients are available on our order page www.bread.lk/placing-orders/

Where is your flour from?

We source our flour locally. We specifically work with high protein flour made from North American, French and Australian wheat.  The flour we use is free of bleaching Bromides.

Does Sourdough have a low Glycemic Index (GI)? Is it suitable for people with Diabetes?

There is a lot of misinformation on this subject. The research on this is varied but the consensus is that Sourdough Bread doesn’t have a significantly lower GI than regular commercial bread.

We do not have added sugar unless explicitly stated otherwise. We encourage you to try the bread in smaller quantities and establish what best suits you.

What’s up with all this brown paper?

We try our very best to avoid the use of single use plastics, whether it is in the kitchen or in our packaging. Our brown paper bags are recycled Tea leaf bags.

In Sri Lanka our inaction and collective irresponsibility regarding the garbage crisis has claimed lives. Our existence is a constant collection and disposal of single use plastics. We would like to not add to this problem.

Do you make Bagels, Croissants or Burger Buns?

Not yet, I’m afraid. We will let you know when they become available.

Will you really deliver a single loaf? Really?

Yes. And Yes. We will happily deliver you a single loaf of bread. A delivery charge is added to your total.

Ordering from outside Colombo District

We’ve delivered thousands of loaves outside Colombo District. The bread reaches anywhere in Sri Lanka the next day, in great condition.

The process, and what to know:

1. It takes one extra day for the bread to reach locations outside Colombo. E.g. if you select Tuesday as a delivery date, it will be delivered during the day on Wednesday.

2. The extra day is perfectly fine for our Sourdough & Ciabatta which are good for 3 days outside. We are yet to have a customer dissatisfied with the condition or quality of the bread as it reaches them.

2. Please select a Tuesday or Thursday baking day for your order. There are no weekend courier deliveries. After you place your order online indicating you want courier service to your address out of Colombo, we will calculate your delivery charge and get back to you with the total bill value and our bank details. As an indication: the delivery charge for 2 loaves is around Rs. 720/- wherever you are on the island.

3. Pay by bank transfer and send us a confirmation in time for us to start your batch (2 days before we bake/ 3 days before it is delivered out of Colombo)

4. We bake, pack and hand over your bread to the courier service and provide you with a tracking number for your order.

For Colombo city, we will continue to serve you via our network of Collection Points to choose from.

10 things you may not know about us.

  1. We bake to order for collection every Tuesday Thursday & Saturday

  2. We close orders 48 hours ahead to start our long fermentation batches.

  3. At any time you can select the next two baking days available on your order form.

  4. We can arrange prepayment by cash transfer, contactless delivery, gifting for a friend, or setting up a weekly standing order for you. Please reach us on breadlkbaker@gmail.com or by adding a comment in your order form.

  5. We don’t slice your bread because it airs it out and reduces the lifespan because we don’t use shelf life extenders in our bread.

  6. But we can recommend the same knife we recommend to all our cafe/restaurant partners.

  7. We use ZERO artificial preservatives, colouring or flavours in our bread. That means our Vanilla and Coffee is locally grown and sourced and extracted at the bakery. Our Chocolate Orange Babkas have real oranges.

  8. Your bread is packed in upcycled tea leaf wholesale bags and we don’t use any single use plastics anywhere in the bakery.

  9. We operate with no waste by baking fresh for your order.

  10. We are Sourdough purists. We don’t assist our Sourdough with Baker’s Yeast. If you’ve had a bite of our bread, I’m sure you can tell.

My Order

I placed an order, has it been confirmed?

If your order was successful you should see the confirmation page after filling your form with additional notes on how to store your sourdough. If there is any reason we can’t meet your order, we will call you to re-arrange an alternative within a day. The evening before delivery we will message you a confirmation with details and totals.

I need help with my order/delivery

Please email breadlkbaker@gmail.com. We reply pretty fast.

How do I give feedback?

Please email us on breadlkbaker@gmail.com. Your feedback is how we become better. Thank you!