Exotic Délice
Mango and passion fruit mousse over a layer of nuts, on almond dacquoise. The one everybody photographs.
£5.95 per slice
232 Hither Green Lane · London SE13
A little bit of Paris on Hither Green Lane
Maison fondée en 2013
Bonjour, Hither Green
The old cinema on the corner, now a French bakery
In 2021 we took on the building at 232 Hither Green Lane — a cinema back in the 1960s — and filled it with flour, butter and the smell of coffee at six in the morning.
Everything is made here. The bakers start before dawn on the bread and croissants; the chef pâtissiers spend the day on the cakes you see in the counter. In between, the kitchen turns out crêpes, omelettes and eggs on sourdough until the afternoon.
It is a big, light room with a proper blue banquette down one side, tables you can spread a newspaper across, and a pavement terrace for the days that allow it. Everyone is welcome, and nobody is rushed.
- 6amDoors open, seven days
- 2 ×Best Café, Lewisham Awards
- 2Shops, Ladywell & Hither Green
- 100%Baked on site, every day
Plan your visit
A day at Le Délice
The kitchen works to a timetable. Here is what is being served when — and where we are in the day right now.
Today’s service
Today · --:--
Bread & viennoiserieOut of the oven from opening
Breakfast & French toastEggs, sourdough, hollandaise
Crêpes, omelettes & lunchMade to order
Pâtisserie & coffeeWhile the counter lasts
Bakery
Breakfast
Kitchen
Counter
Mon–Fri to 7pm · Sat & Sun to 6pm
From the counter
What people come back for
Keep scrolling and the row moves with you — or drag it across yourself. Prices are for a single portion, eat in or takeaway.
Chocolat Royal
A chocolate mousse dome sitting on caramel praline and light sponge. Rich, but somehow still light.
£5.95 per slice
Opéra
Vanilla, coffee, almond dacquoise and chocolate ganache in fine layers under a dark mirror glaze.
£5.75 per slice
Croissants & viennoiserie
Out of the oven each morning — plain, almond, pain au chocolat, and whatever the bakers felt like.
from £2.60 each
Until 4pm
Buckwheat crêpes
Made to order, savoury or sweet. The galettes are made with buckwheat flour — ask us about allergens.
£5.80 – £11.45
Macarons
Made in the kitchen upstairs. Boxes of six or twelve, ready to take to somebody’s house.
£2.20 each
Sourdough
White, seeded and country loaves on the bread shelf from mid-morning. They go quickly.
£3.50 per loaf
Lunch
Quiche
Spinach & feta, goat’s cheese & roast veg, or ham & cheese. Warmed through, with salad if you like.
£3.99 each
The counter
Choose slowly. That is rather the point.
Twenty-odd cakes on any given day, made a few metres from where you are standing. If you cannot decide, ask — somebody will have an opinion.
However you like it
Three ways to enjoy Le Délice
Sit in
Big tables, comfortable seats and no hurry. Breakfast lands from 6am, the kitchen runs until 4pm, and the coffee machine keeps going until close.
Take away
Bread, viennoiserie, boxes of macarons and pâtisserie packed to travel. Call ahead if you need a lot of it and we will have it ready.
Order a cake
Birthdays, christenings, Tuesdays. From £38 for six to eight servings, with a personalised message included. Three days’ notice, please.
For the coffee drinkers
Worth the walk on its own
Plenty of people come here for the cake and stay for the coffee. It is pulled properly, poured with a steady hand, and it does not taste like an afterthought to the pastry.
Our baristas dial the grind in each morning and taste the first shots before the doors open, because a bag of beans behaves differently on a damp Tuesday than it did on a dry Friday. Milk is textured to order rather than kept waiting in a jug — which is why the fern on top of your flat white is drawn rather than dolloped.
£2.70Espresso
£3.80Flat white
£3.50Americano
Oat, soya and almond milk at no extra charge:
- Oat
- Soya
- Almond
- Decaf
- Extra shot 60p
Not a coffee drinker? There is matcha, a proper chai latte, a serious hot chocolate, and a tea list that goes well beyond builder’s.
What our neighbours say
Read what our customers say, in their own words
Twice named Best Café at the Mayor of Lewisham Business Awards. For everything else, our customers’ reviews are on Google — unedited, and written by the people who left them.
In the kitchen
Made here, this morning
Bakers in from the small hours on the bread and viennoiserie. Pâtissiers through the day on the cakes. Nothing arrives frozen in a van.
Recognised locally
Best Café at the Mayor of Lewisham Business Awards — twice
2022 and again in 2025, voted for by the people who live here.
We are not a chain and we do not want to be. Le Délice was started in 2013 by Karine Bengueloul in a former pub in Ladywell, and Hither Green followed in 2021. Both shops are run the same way: bake it here, serve it warm, know your regulars’ names.
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Today’s bake, tomorrow’s cake, and the occasional finished plate.
Come and see us
232 Hither Green Lane, SE13 6RT
Two minutes from Hither Green station, on the corner where the old cinema used to be.
| Monday – Friday | 6:00am – 7:00pm |
| Saturday | 6:00am – 6:00pm |
| Sunday | 6:00am – 6:00pm |