Danish Bakery began in 1991 as a small family venture set up by a Danish chef the owning group names only as Mrs Gurli. It started as a home business selling baked goods and pastries.
From a home kitchen to a group
On 26 January 2022, Mohammed Naser Al-Hajery and Sons announced it had acquired Danish Bakery. The same deal took in Damlooj, a bakery specialising in catering, coffee sweets and breads, with sites at Daiya Co-op and Yarmouk.
What comes out of the ovens
The bread list runs to samoon rolls, Turkish simit, French baguettes and sourdough. The Arabic sweets include ghuraiba and warbat; the cakes include a Victoria cake and a pistachio-rose. The bakery is also known locally for an oversized croissant.
Prices
From the published delivery menu for the Yarmouk branch: white sourdough 2.250 dinars, Kuwaiti basbousa 2.500, a mixed-berry cheesecake slice 2.500, large vine leaves 4.500, pizza margherita 3.350. Minimum order is two dinars.
Where it is
Offices and production are in Industrial Ardiya, Block 1, Building 82, telephone 2534 2057. The Yarmouk branch is in the Salem Al-Ali complex, Block 1, Street 3, telephone 2532 1088.
What the bakery does not publish
Its own site gives no branch opening hours and no branch count, and nothing at all on fermentation times, oven type, flour supplier or butter. A 4Sale directory entry lists 9am to 10pm Sunday to Thursday and 10am to midnight on Friday and Saturday, but that is a directory, not the company. The branch page on Deliveroo shows it open and taking orders.
Photograph: a sourdough loaf. This is a general picture of the item, not of the bakery itself. Photograph by Dana Hutchinson, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
Source: danishbakery.com.kw; the acquisition page on hajery.com; the Deliveroo Kuwait menu for the Yarmouk branch.
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