Bakehouse is a bakery and café in Hazelwood, Pretoria, where you can eat sourdough toast with smashed avocado, eggs Benedict, or shakshuka for brunch. The kitchen makes pastries daily — croissants, cinnamon rolls, chocolate twists — and bakes sourdough loaves for the tables. The menu runs from breakfast through lunch: wood-fired pizzas, burgers with beef patties or halloumi, and plates like grilled kingklip or flame-grilled chicken.

You order at the counter, where the day’s bread and pastries are stacked under glass. The eggs come poached or scrambled, the bacon crisp, and the avocado with lemon and chilli flakes. For lunch there are sandwiches on toasted sourdough, Caesar salads with chicken, and pasta with cream or Bolognese sauce.

The café is on Firwood Avenue, a quiet street in Hazelwood. The smell of baking bread fills the room by mid-morning.