About The Dusty Knuckle
Founded in 2014, The Dusty Knuckle began by baking a handful of loaves from a shipping container in a Dalston car park. It has since grown into a permanent café and wholesale bakery supplying some of London’s best food businesses, alongside a milk float, the permanent van in Highbury Fields, and a café-pizza restaurant in Haringey. TDK is on an ambitious trajectory to scale its social impact and operations at new sites in the coming years.
Awarded Time Out’s Best Bakery in London and a King’s Enterprise Award in 2025, The Dusty Knuckle is about more than great food. TDK is dedicated to impactful social change, running a youth training program that mentors and supports at-risk youth, including those with past offending histories, to develop skills and confidence for productive lives. Every role at TDK supports this mission.
We are committed to making exceptional food using the finest ingredients, with everything produced in-house wherever possible.
Workplace Culture
The happiness of staff is hugely important to us. We know that working in hospitality can be seriously hard work and we always consider how to ensure staff have the support, infrastructure and rest they need to have a balanced and enjoyable life at work.
