What other people say about us…

We are pleased to have been selected by the online guide Very Good Service which brings together companies which have won awards for their products and services or have gained recognition for the quality of their service through top social media channels. They aim to make it easy to find the very best companies in the UK. You can find us in the food section.

Signe Johansen, who’s book Scandilicious: Secrets of Scandinavian Cooking, was published in May by Saltyard Books, featured some of her recipes in Marie Claire including this delicious gravlaks which she suggests serving with our crispbreads.

You can find the full recipe here.

Ideal Home recommend our crispbreads as part of their perfect Christmas cheeseboard.

House & Garden featured our crispbreads as a great companion to cheese or smoked salmon, saying they are  high on flavour yet light.

Listed in the Bread, cakes and chocolate section The Larder describes Peter’s Yard coffee house and bakery as:

‘A unique store that deserves its reputation for integrity….a destination for foodies looking to treat themselves‘ and giving special mention to our crispbread.

You can read more on page 60 of their online guide here.

Alison Craig of Simon Seeks reviews our Edinburgh coffee house and bakery describing at as:

‘Dreamy Swedish bakery and coffee shop with sublime fresh food in the university quarter‘

and scoring us at 4.7 out of 5.

Read her review here.

Our bakery and coffee house has been mentioned this week in two food blogs. Edinburgh Foody visited the bakery and got the chance to chat with our head baker, Georgie and watch her baking our favourite cinnamon buns. Food for Think popped in while visiting friends in the city to enjoy a coffee and some of those cinnamon buns. You can read what they thought here:

Edinburgh Foody: The best bakery in Edinburgh? Peter’s Yard

Food for Think: Peter’s Yard, Edinburgh

Dan Lepard lists us as one of the Top 10 small bakeries in Britain and makes special mention of our large crispbreads.

You can take a girl out of Norway but you’d be hard-pressed to wrest the rye crispbread from her hands. Campaign member, food anthropologist and cook Signe Johansen goes in search of Scandi comfort food in Gloucestershire.

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Signe Johansen
Peter’s Yard Crispbread. More than the sum of its parts.

Dos Hermanos
Product of the Week: Peter’s Yard Crispbread.

Telegraph Blog
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Hand-made crispbreads with a subtle, delicious flavour.

“Dedicated to lovely things that come from hot ovens, Peter´s Yard is a laid-back, light, modern temple to Swedish goodness, right beside the Meadows. There´s a long, communal table in the middle of the space where mums, students, academics and dog-walkers tuck into simple food done really, really well. A typical lunch could be a big bowl of home-made soup (served with three hunks of super-yummy bread), or a traditional open sandwich with smoked salmon, or a huge sourdough roll stuffed with salami and brie. Bread, cakes, pastries and crispbread are available to buy in the shop and online and are outrageously good – this is one baker which truly deserves the artisan prefix.

Finding a seat can be a challenge at lunchtimes, but on sunny days take-away and alfresco picnic in the Meadows is a real treat. All in, good stuff with a slow-food take on what´s often the most rushed meals of the day”

“The acidity of goat’s cheese requires a biscuit that’s crisp yet light in order to enjoy the flavours of the milk. We are really loving Peter’s Yard Crispbread round biscuits at the moment, made to a traditional Swedish recipe using rye and wheat flour, and a perfect thin and crunchy texture.”

Patricia Michelson, La Fromagerie

“Peter’s Yard Crispbread scores top marks (5 stars) in Scandinavian taste test”

To diet for
“Peter’s Yard, the Edinburgh-based bakery and coffee shop, has done something amazing – it has created an interesting crispbread. This neither looks nor tastes like polystyrene packaging, but is instead made from a traditional Swedish recipe using sourdough, milk, rye flour and honey. Valentine Warner, the TV chef thinks it goes well with gravadlax.“ Read more at www.telegraph.co.uk

The Larder reviews Peter’s Yard.

“An extraordinary emporium dedicated to fresh, natural and quality produce, Peter’s Yard is a haven for foodies. It has a passion for bread, believing it to be fundamental to a modern, healthy lifestyle, and is determined to establish a food culture in which bread plays the starring role. This should not be a problem as its range of artisan breads, produced using a stone-oven, is phenomenal and includes authentic Swedish rye and kavring. It sells sandwiches, muffins, innovative breakfasts and cakes to take away or enjoy in situ, as well as a staggering range, from biscuits and baking to conserves and chocolate.
Quite simply a must.”

-the Larder, 2009

What a cracker!
“No Christmas cheeseboard should be without Swedish crispbread from the artisan company, Peter’s Yard.”

Food News
“With the aim of bringing ‘fika’ – a Swedish tradition where friends and family take time out to enjoy good food, coffee and company – to the capital, Peter Ljungquist opened Peter’s Yard bakery and coffee-house in Edinburgh’s Quartermile at the end of 2007. Its crispbread, made to a traditional Swedish sourdough recipe, has proved such a hit that it has been launched nationwide. Pile on the smoked salmon, cheese or a bit of whatever takes your fancy, and voilà, your very own smorgasbord!”

For Peter’s Sake
“Peters Yard has made crispbreads cool. It’s rustic discs are made to an old Swedish recipe and all ingredients are natural – milk, rye flour, whole-wheat flour, sourdough and honey.”

“Swedish born Peter Ljunquist has a passion for artisan baking, as well as the Scottish capital. Last year he combined the two in his deli-café. It’s an appealing Scandinavian-style space: glass-fronted, light and airy, full of cleanly displayed cakes and bread. The speciality breads, such as Levain, a yeastless sourdough, or the classic Swedish crispbreads are great. “

“Peter’s Yard seems to have been jetted in from Planet Foodie, or failing that Sweden, to show us all what a really excellent bakery café can be like.” Read more…