Popular Manchester bakery opens second store - and people are queuing out the door for fresh cakes, bread and pastries

As you head towards the new La Chouquette bakery in Poynton, the smell of assorted freshly baked goods will hit you before you even cross the road to step foot inside.

Since 2020, couple Mairead Deignan and Florent Verove have been baking delicious breads, pastries and cakes from their base in Didsbury on Wilmslow Road to the delight of residents and those who have travelled far just for a bite of brioche. Three years exactly to the day, and just months after being named the best Manchester bakery at the England's Business Awards, the pair have now just opened their second base.

And before the new bakery even opened its doors at 7am on Tuesday morning (December 5) for its first day, there were queues outside with people waiting to get their hands on the likes of sourdough loaves, cakes, quiches, and their now famous almond croissants. And the queues never stopped throughout the day.

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Amongst those to pop in on opening day was one local resident who told staff she had often travelled all the way up to the Didsbury bakery to get her fill of baked goods, including her favourite Bakewell tarts. She now said she only has to walk round the corner to be able to get her order in.

For anyone who has visited their original store, visitors to the Poynton store on the corner of Clumber Road will be pleased to know it offers everything it is known for and then some. The bread is still made in Didsbury, but pretty much everything else is made in store and on the day.

“It was by chance that we’ve ended up in Poynton really,” Mairead tells the