54-56 Neal Street, London, GB • Covent Garden
The 100% gluten-free Paris bakery chain opened its first UK shop here, serving croissants, brioche, and babka baked fresh daily.
We last checked this spot on August 9, 2026 · Sansglu Editorial methodology
The Sansglu take
The place
Copains opened its first UK location at 54-56 Neal Street in Covent Garden on November 24, 2025, three years after founders Baptiste Borne and Giovanni Amico launched the original 100% gluten-free bakery in Paris in 2021. It is a small counter-service bakery on Neal Street, in the middle of Covent Garden's shopping district, with pastries baked on site and sold to walk-in customers. Copains later opened a second London branch in Islington at 133 Upper Street on February 19, 2026, a separate site with its own kitchen.
The gluten-free setup
Copains bakes everything in house from a wheat-free kitchen. FindMeGF lists it as a dedicated gluten-free bakery, and UK coverage from Hot Dinners and Broadsheet both describe a 100% gluten-free menu baked fresh daily. Copains has not published its own allergen or facility page that Sansglu could verify directly, so treat this as strong, secondary-sourced evidence rather than a first-party guarantee, and ask the counter staff to confirm nothing has changed since opening.
What to order
The menu runs on French bakery staples: croissants, brioche, babka, sandwiches, and pastries, with vegan and dairy-free options. Look for a babka or a plain butter croissant as a baseline of what the kitchen turns out.
The move
Go in person for pastries rather than planning ahead by phone or app. There is no published allergen page to check before you visit, so ask the counter staff directly whether anything in that day's bake used wheat flour.
Sansglu Editorial · Updated August 9, 2026
Gluten-free setup
Current facility and preparation details supported by our research.
- ✓Dedicated facility
- ✓Separate kitchen
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