Some people travel for the food. Bageri Form is making the case where you don’t have to. The Scandinavian-inspired artisan bakery tucked into Dubai Design District has spent this summer proving it, one postcard at a time.
Postcards from Bageri is exactly as charming as it sounds. Thirteen original hand-drawn postcards, each one paired with a menu creation inspired by a different corner of the world. The concept is imaginative and the execution is transportive.
Every postcard tells a small story: a sunny afternoon in one place, a quiet morning somewhere new or the kind of slow, and beautiful experience that feels almost radical in a city that never really stops moving.
The menu pairings are where it gets really good. A Cherry Cheesecake Danish conjures Sweden. A White Chocolate Coconut Pain Suisse is postmarked from the Maldives. A Hazelnut Harissa Baked Egg Danish carries the unmistakable energy of Tunis. And then there is the Betroot, Za’atar and Mozerella Danish, carrying you home to Jerusalem. Each one is its little own world, and together they make the kind of menu you can’t get out of your head until you’ve tried it all.
“Summer in Dubai is its own kind of escape,” says Samira Dabbagh, Executive Chef and Operations Manager at Bageri Form. “We wanted to create something that felt warm, personal, and a little nostalgic, the way a postcard from a friend does.”
There is something genuinely easy to love about that. Bageri Form has always had a quiet confidence about it, and Postcards from Bageri feels like the most natural expression of it yet.
If Bageri Form is not already on your regular rotation, that changes now. The open kitchen, the speciality coffee, the pastries that somehow manage to feel both considered and completely unpretentious. It is a place that reminds you that the best things don’t always announce themselves loudly. Sometimes it’s the connection between the chef, the food, and you.
Explore Bageri Form and their menu here.