Halloween Bakery Near Me in Belgravia: Peggy Porschen's Pink Pumpkin Patch

Peggy Porschen's pink corner parlour at 116 Ebury Street sells a Cutie Spooky Chocolate Cupcake topped with a sugar ghost for £7.95, and that small cupcake is the easiest answer in SW1 to a search for a halloween bakery near me this October. The parlour opens at 8:30am every day, takes cards only, and closes at 5:30pm Monday to Thursday and 6pm Friday to Sunday. Victoria and Sloane Square stations are both a short walk away.

Peggy Porschen does not turn Ebury Street into a haunted house. The autumn theme for 2026 is called the Enchanted Orchard, and the parlour describes it as burnished golds, jewel-toned fruit and florals woven around what it calls its perennial pink pumpkin patch. The Halloween touch is deliberately small and sweet. The ghost cupcake is billed as way too cute to spook, and the afternoon tea page promises a resident ghost or two hidden among the tea stands as All Hallows' Eve gets closer.

That tone matters if you are planning a visit with children or with friends who hate gore. Nothing here drips fake blood or wears a skull. The Halloween offer is a run of seasonal cupcakes on the counter, the pumpkin-heavy facade outside, and a set of autumn patisserie on the tiered stands. If you want black icing and cobwebs, Soho bakeries do that style better. If you want a pastel version of the season, this corner of Belgravia is built for it.

Start with the Cutie Spooky Chocolate Cupcake. It is the parlour's Chocolate Heaven cupcake dressed for October with a little sugar ghost, a mini meringue kiss and sprinkles. The online shop lists it at £7.95 each or £44 for a box of six, and notes that the ghosts come in several styles, so two cupcakes in the same box rarely match. It contains gluten, egg, milk and soya, and the sprinkles use E120, so it is not suitable for vegetarians.

The Spiced Pumpkin & Chai Cupcake is the one the parlour itself calls an autumn favourite. A spiced pumpkin sponge carries a swirl of light chai mascarpone cream, sprinkles, and a shimmered sugar pumpkin in lilac, peach or cream. It costs £8.50 on its own and £46 for six. The sugar pumpkin is sprayed with a pearl finish that contains ethyl alcohol, a detail worth knowing before you hand one to a toddler or a guest who avoids alcohol completely.

The Sticky Toffee Cupcake, also £8.50, is the parlour's take on a British pudding: a date and brown sugar sponge with a toffee filling, vanilla mascarpone, sugar pearls and a small pastel leaf or acorn. For guests who avoid gluten or animal products, the Blackberry & Brown Sugar Crumble Cupcake at £7.95 is vegan and gluten-friendly, finished with blackberry frosting, an oat crumble, a fresh blackberry, rose petals and lemon thyme. Skip the plain Red Velvet Hearts this month, since the seasonal four are why you came.

The sit-down version of the season is the Enchanted Orchard Autumn Afternoon Tea, from £56 per adult and £30 per child aged 12 and under. It follows the classic three tiers of finger sandwiches, scones and patisserie, with menu highlights such as pumpkin spice and blackberry choux, plus bottomless tea from the house blends. Vegetarian, vegan and gluten-friendly versions exist for adults, and a Little Afternoon Tea is offered for children. It runs from 11am until 3:30pm on weekdays and 4:30pm on weekends.

Bookings go through SevenRooms and need a card, although standard tables carry no deposit. Tables seat up to six and are yours for 90 minutes. The parlour holds a late table for 15 minutes, extension 1. Cancel at least 24 hours ahead, because late cancellations and no-shows are charged £20 per person, and so is changing your mind about a booked tea once you arrive.

Everything else is walk-in only. The all-day menu of brunch, cakes and drinks is not bookable, the hot kitchen takes its last orders at 3:30pm, and terrace tables cannot be reserved at all. On busy weekends staff run a queue outside the door to manage diners, bookings and takeaway customers at once. Warm blankets are handed out on the terrace in cold weather, which in late October makes an outdoor table more pleasant than it sounds.

If the weekend queue stretches along Elizabeth Street, there is a faster route to the same cupcakes. The takeaway counter sits by the entrance and serves the patisserie cabinet during normal opening hours, so you can buy a boxed ghost cupcake without waiting for a table. The other option is to order a box of six online for collection at the Belgravia parlour, then walk in, pick it up and carry it to a bench instead of fighting for a chair.

Peggy Porschen has been baking since 2003, and Belgravia was her first boutique when it opened in 2010. The site was designed for bespoke wedding cake consultations with a small annex cafe, which explains why the room still feels intimate. It is Grade II listed, with original features, small tables and limited seating. The parlour is now one of London's most photographed shopfronts, and the team asks visitors with cameras to respect the privacy of people eating inside.

Inside, the cake counter sits at the centre of a pink room, and the crowd is a mix you can predict from the official notes: families celebrating birthdays with a candle on the plate, friends booked in for afternoon tea with a glass of champagne, and visitors photographing the facade before stepping inside. Dog owners stay on the terrace, because dogs are allowed outside only and the house runs a paws on the floor rule. Outside food, including a birthday cake you brought yourself, is not allowed.

Ebury Street has its own Halloween-adjacent story. A blue plaque at 180 Ebury Street marks the house where an eight-year-old Mozart wrote his first symphony in 1764, a five-minute walk south-west of the parlour. Elizabeth Street, which meets Ebury Street at Peggy Porschen's corner, is lined with independent shops and cafes. Taking your cupcake box along Elizabeth Street towards Eaton Square is the most pleasant way to fill an hour.

Head the other way and Sloane Square is about ten minutes on foot. From there the King's Road leads to Duke of York Square, where the Saatchi Gallery occupies the old Duke of York's Headquarters building. Combining a morning cupcake at 8:30am, the Mozart plaque and a gallery stop makes a half-day that never requires a reservation, which suits the kind of October Saturday when every bookable table in Belgravia is gone.

Peggy Porschen Belgravia, 116 Ebury Street, London SW1W 9QQ. Card payments only. Nearest Tube stations are Victoria and Sloane Square, and London Victoria rail station is close by. There are two steps up to the main door, and a ramp is available on request. All toilets are on the lower ground floor down narrow steps, there is no accessible toilet and no baby changing, and highchairs are limited.

The parlour asks for accessibility requests at least 48 hours ahead by email, and it also needs 48 hours' notice to pre-order a special cake for your table. Pram storage is not guaranteed, so a folding buggy is easier than a large pushchair on a crowded weekend. Come before 11am on a weekday for the calmest room, order the ghost cupcake and the pumpkin chai together, and save the bookable afternoon tea for a day when you have 90 unhurried minutes.