By Nathan Khider

Walk down any London high street on a Saturday morning and you’ll see the new national pastime: queues wrapping around corners for coffee and croissants.

The bakery boom is real and being fuelled by the health-conscious, TikTok-obsessed Gen Z who are reshaping how young Brits socialise.

As a property expert, I’m seeing first-hand how this shift is transforming our urban spaces. Independent bakeries and coffee shops are springing up across the capital at remarkable speed.

In fact, Gail’s bakery alone has 170 sites and 20 in London alone, with even more opening up soon around the likes of Crystal Palace.

They have become the new community hubs replacing the pub as the place to socialise, catch up, and enjoy a sweet treat.

Meanwhile, the British Beer and Pub Association warns that roughly one pub a day is closing across the UK. For younger generations, the idea of spending a night out on the town followed by a hangover morning is losing........

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