Daily Bread: The Rusthall Café That Makes Its Own Bacon, Beans and Ketchup

Rusthall High Street isn't short of places to grab a coffee, but Daily Bread has built its name on doing things the slow way. Everything on the counter - bread, cakes, pastries - is made on the premises each morning, and the kitchen doesn't stop there: the bacon is cured and smoked in-house, the cheddar is smoked on site, and even the baked beans and ketchup are made from scratch rather than opened from a tin or bottle.

The café sources its meat locally and free-range, uses only free-range eggs, and says it can tell customers exactly what's on their plate and where it came from - the kind of traceability that's easy to claim and harder to actually deliver. It shows on the menu: a full breakfast with halloumi, beetroot and homemade baked beans; eggs benedict with hollandaise made to order; pancakes with their own-cured bacon and syrup. The café is open for breakfast and lunch Monday, Wednesday to Saturday (kitchen closes 2.30-3pm) and Sunday mornings, closed Tuesdays, with a Deliveroo service running Thursday and Friday evenings.

Daily Bread was a finalist at the Kent Food & Drink Awards in 2017 and has been shortlisted for Muddy Stilettos' Best Café award three times since - in 2018, 2019 and again in 2024 - a run of recognition that's rare for a single-site village café going up against the county's bigger names.

Daily Bread is at 27-29 High Street, Rusthall, TN4 8RL. Source: Daily Bread