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Marchpane
Marchpane has traded from 16 Cecil Court since August 1989, when antiquarian…
WorkshopGeorge Shoe Repairs
George Shoe Repairs has worked from 35 Tottenham Street since 1970, repairing…
CultureAin't Nothin' But the Blues Bar
Ain't Nothin' But has operated as a dedicated blues venue at 20 Kingly Street…
CellarGordon's Wine Bar
Gordon's Wine Bar has occupied the vaulted cellars beneath 47 Villiers Street…
RestThanet Hotel
The Thanet Hotel occupies a townhouse at 8 Bedford Place built in 1802-03 on…
GroundsNotting Hill Coffee Project
Notting Hill Coffee Project sits on Notting Hill Gate, an independent…
Grounds
49 Cafe
Bloomsbury, ENG
A narrow counter-service cafe on Marchmont Street in Bloomsbury, run in the style of an Italian…
Algerian Coffee Stores
Soho, ENG
The shop has sold coffee from 52 Old Compton Street since 1887, which makes it older than almost…
Archetype Coffee
Fitzrovia, ENG
Aaron Murley runs this single-room coffee bar just off Great Portland Street on Riding House…
Bar Italia
Soho, ENG
The Polledri family opened Bar Italia in 1949 and the third generation — Antonio, Luigi and…
Briki
Clerkenwell, ENG
A Greek-run coffee shop and deli on Exmouth Market serving freddo espresso and cappuccino made with…
Calico Coffee
Waterloo, ENG
A specialty coffee shop on Lower Marsh in Waterloo, selling single-origin beans from Ethiopia,…
Cawfee Barbican
Barbican, ENG
A family-run espresso bar on Long Lane near the Barbican, serving Turkish-style home-cooked…
EC1 Coffee House
Clerkenwell, ENG
EC1 Coffee House has poured espresso from a single counter on Clerkenwell Road since 2014, run day…
Farringdon Social Coffee
Farringdon, ENG
Farringdon Social Coffee occupies a corner unit on Cowcross Street, a few minutes from Farringdon…
Flowers Fitzrovia
Fitzrovia, ENG
Flowers Fitzrovia is an independent florist on Tottenham Court Road, founded in 2013 by…
FWD:Coffee
St Luke's, ENG
An exposed-brick coffee shop on Whitecross Street in St Luke's, furnished with leather sofas and…
Kaffeine
Fitzrovia, ENG
Peter Dore-Smith opened Kaffeine on Great Titchfield Street in 2009, after a five-week…
Table
Andrew Edmunds
Soho, ENG
Andrew Edmunds opened his eponymous restaurant on Lexington Street in 1985, in the same Georgian…
Bar Bruno
Soho, ENG
Bar Bruno has served breakfasts and sandwiches from 101 Wardour Street since the 1960s, when it was…
Bocca di Lupo
Soho, ENG
Jacob Kenedy and Victor Hugo opened Bocca di Lupo on Archer Street in 2008, naming it for regional…
Ciao Bella
Bloomsbury, ENG
Ciao Bella is a family-run Italian trattoria on Lamb's Conduit Street, open since 1983 and run…
Golden Hind
Marylebone, ENG
The Golden Hind has served fried fish from 71a-73 Marylebone Lane since 1914, making it one of the…
Grumbles
Pimlico, ENG
Jeremy Friend opened Grumbles in 1964 with a lease costing twelve pounds a week and three hundred…
Kitty Fisher's
Mayfair, ENG
Kitty Fisher's occupies a small townhouse dining room on Shepherd Market, a cluster of…
Le Café du Marché
Smithfield, ENG
Le Café du Marché has served French bistro cooking from the same cobbled Smithfield mews for around…
Lorne
Pimlico, ENG
Katie Exton, formerly a sommelier at The River Cafe, Chez Bruce and The Square, opened Lorne on…
Maison Bertaux
Soho, ENG
Founded in 1871 by Communard refugees with strong opinions about pastry, Maison Bertaux is London's…
Moro
Clerkenwell, ENG
Sam and Sam Clark opened Moro on Exmouth Market in 1997, after driving a camper van through Spain,…
Otto's
Clerkenwell, ENG
Otto's occupies a modest dining room on Gray's Inn Road, where Otto Tepasse and Elin Hansen have…
Larder
Buchanan's Cheesemonger
London, ENG
Rhuaridh Buchanan, a Scottish affineur who trained at Paxton & Whitfield, opened his own…
Cutter & Squidge
Soho, ENG
Cutter & Squidge began as a market stall run by sisters Annabel and Emily Lui in 2013, selling a…
Fortitude Bakehouse
Bloomsbury, ENG
Fortitude Bakehouse opened on Colonnade in Bloomsbury in 2018, founded by baker Dee Rettali and…
Furness Fish Markets
Borough, ENG
Les Salisbury began potting shrimp as a boy on Morecambe Bay before opening this stall at Borough…
Gazzano's
Clerkenwell, ENG
Gazzano's has traded as an Italian delicatessen on Farringdon Road for four generations of the same…
Green Valley Marylebone
Marylebone, ENG
Green Valley has traded off Edgware Road since 1986, selling Lebanese and wider Middle Eastern…
H.R. Higgins (Coffee-Man)
London, ENG
Coffee and tea merchant trading from Duke Street since 1942, selling coffee roasted at the…
H.T. Harris
Fitzrovia, ENG
H.T. Harris is a family-run Italian delicatessen on Great Titchfield Street, trading since 1926.…
I. Camisa & Son
Soho, ENG
I. Camisa & Son has traded as an Italian delicatessen from Soho since 1929, when brothers Ennio and…
Kappacasein
Borough, ENG
Bill Oglethorpe started Kappacasein at Borough Market in 2008, first selling a toasted cheese…
La Fromagerie
London, ENG
Patricia Michelson began selling cheese from a Highbury garage in the early 1990s and built La…
McKanna Meats
Holborn, ENG
McKanna Meats is a traditional butcher's shop on Theobald's Road in Holborn, trading from the same…
Culture
Ain't Nothin' But the Blues Bar
Soho, ENG
Ain't Nothin' But has operated as a dedicated blues venue at 20 Kingly Street since 1993, running…
Bankside Gallery
Bankside, ENG
Bankside Gallery has stood on Hopton Street, on the Thames Path beside Tate Modern, since it opened…
Bridewell Theatre
City of London, ENG
The Bridewell Theatre occupies a former Victorian swimming pool on Bride Lane, off Fleet Street,…
Conway Hall
London, ENG
Independent venue in Holborn built in 1929 for the Conway Hall Ethical Society, hosting talks,…
Donmar Warehouse
Covent Garden, ENG
The Donmar Warehouse occupies a former hop and banana warehouse off Seven Dials, converted into a…
Handel & Hendrix House
Mayfair, ENG
Handel & Hendrix House occupies two adjoining Mayfair terraced houses on Brook Street where, two…
Interval
Clerkenwell, ENG
Interval is a gallery and project space inside a 1790s Georgian townhouse on Compton Street, opened…
Leicester Square Theatre
Leicester Square, ENG
Leicester Square Theatre stands on Leicester Place, just north of Leicester Square, in a building…
October Gallery
London, ENG
Contemporary art gallery in a Grade II listed Bloomsbury building, showing painting, sculpture and…
Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret
Borough, ENG
Reached by a 52-step spiral staircase inside the garret of St Thomas's Church, the Old Operating…
Prince Charles Cinema
Soho, ENG
The Prince Charles Cinema opened on Leicester Place on 26 December 1962 as a legitimate theatre…
Sir John Soane's Museum
Holborn, ENG
Architect John Soane designed the Bank of England and lived at 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, filling the…
Workshop
Central School of Jewellery
Clerkenwell, ENG
Based in Albion Buildings on Back Hill, close to Hatton Garden's jewellery quarter, the Central…
Davies & Son
Mayfair, ENG
George Davies founded this bespoke tailoring house on Hanover Street in Mayfair in 1803. It moved…
Dege & Skinner
London, ENG
Family-owned tailor and shirtmaker at 10 Savile Row, cutting and making bespoke suits, military…
E Katz & Co
Holborn, ENG
Emil Katz, who left Czechoslovakia in 1939 with diamonds his mother had sewn into his suit lining,…
FORGE
Holborn, ENG
Amanda Mansell, a jewellery designer, opened FORGE on Leather Lane in February 2023, inside…
Foster & Son
London, ENG
Bespoke shoe and bootmaker on Jermyn Street since 1840, with a workshop above the shop where…
George Shoe Repairs
Fitzrovia, ENG
George Shoe Repairs has worked from 35 Tottenham Street since 1970, repairing and restoring shoes,…
Henry Poole & Co
Mayfair, ENG
Henry Poole & Co traces its founding to 1806, when James Poole set up as a military tailor during…
Holts Gems
London, ENG
Holts was founded in Hatton Garden in 1948 by Robert Holt, a Viennese refugee who had apprenticed…
James Smith & Sons
London, ENG
James Smith & Sons has made and repaired umbrellas, canes and walking sticks since 1830, from a…
James Taylor & Son
Marylebone, ENG
James Taylor & Son has made shoes since 1857, when James Taylor walked from Norfolk to London to…
Lock & Co Hatters
St James's, ENG
Robert Davis opened a hat shop at 6 St James's Street in 1676; James Lock inherited the business…
Counter
Arthur Probsthain
Bloomsbury, ENG
Arthur Probsthain opened this bookshop in 1903 on Bury Place before moving it to 41 Great Russell…
Bloomsbury Flowers
Covent Garden, ENG
Bloomsbury Flowers has traded from an eighteenth-century building on Great Queen Street since 1994,…
Choosing Keeping
Covent Garden, ENG
Julia Jeuvell opened Choosing Keeping in 2012 as a small stationery shop on Columbia Road in east…
Clerkenwell Screws
Clerkenwell, ENG
Clerkenwell Screws is a small independent ironmonger on Clerkenwell Road, recorded trading from the…
E Katz & Co
Holborn, ENG
Emil Katz, who left Czechoslovakia in 1939 with diamonds his mother had sewn into his suit lining,…
Floris
St James's, ENG
Juan Famenias Floris and his wife Elizabeth opened a perfumery and barber's shop at 89 Jermyn…
Gay's the Word
London, ENG
Gay's the Word opened on Marchmont Street in Bloomsbury in 1979 and is the UK's oldest LGBT+…
Goldsboro Books
Covent Garden, ENG
Goldsboro Books has traded from Cecil Court, off Charing Cross Road, since 1999, when book…
Grays of Westminster
London, ENG
Camera shop in Pimlico trading exclusively in Nikon equipment since 1985, stocking new and…
Grosvenor Prints
London, ENG
Antiquarian print dealer on Shelton Street stocking thousands of original engravings, etchings and…
Henry Pordes Books
Covent Garden, ENG
Henry Pordes Books has sold secondhand and antiquarian books from Charing Cross Road since 1983,…
Heywood Hill
Mayfair, ENG
George Heywood Hill opened his Curzon Street bookshop on 3 August 1936 with backing from his father…
Cellar
Berry Bros & Rudd
London, ENG
Berry Bros & Rudd has traded wine from 3 St James's Street since 1698 — Britain's oldest wine…
Cadenhead's Whisky Shop
Marylebone, ENG
Wm Cadenhead was founded in Aberdeen in 1842 and now trades as Scotland's oldest independent whisky…
Gerry's Wines & Spirits
Soho, ENG
Michael Kyprianou built Gerry's in the mid-1980s — the name honours co-founder Gerry Cohen,…
Gordon's Wine Bar
Covent Garden, ENG
Gordon's Wine Bar has occupied the vaulted cellars beneath 47 Villiers Street since 1890, when…
Hedonism Wines
Mayfair, ENG
Hedonism Wines opened on Davies Street in 2012, built by the former mobile-phone entrepreneur…
Lant Street Wine
Borough, ENG
Lant Street Wine trades from a former nineteenth-century cork warehouse just off Borough High…
Made in Little France
Clerkenwell, ENG
Maxence Masurier opened Made in Little France on St John Street in Clerkenwell in 2013, moving from…
Milroy's of Soho
Soho, ENG
Milroy's of Soho has traded from 3 Greek Street since 1964, when brothers John 'Jack' and Wallace…
Soho Wine Supply
Fitzrovia, ENG
Soho Wine Supply has operated as a wine and spirits merchant from Percy Street since 1870, moving…
The Vintage House
Soho, ENG
The Vintage House has traded whisky from 42 Old Compton Street since around 1940, one of the oldest…
The Winemakers Club
Holborn, ENG
John Baum runs The Winemakers Club from a candlelit archway beneath Holborn Viaduct, a space that…
Utobeer
Borough, ENG
Utobeer began trading at Borough Market on 4 December 1999, when Richard Dinwoodie and his wife…
Snug
51 Cave à Manger
Clerkenwell, ENG
51 is a small cave à manger on Exmouth Market run by chef-owner Fergus Shields with head sommelier…
Bradley's Spanish Bar
Fitzrovia, ENG
Bradley's Spanish Bar occupies a narrow, low-ceilinged room on Hanway Street just off Oxford…
Golden Eagle
Marylebone, ENG
The Golden Eagle is a small freehouse on Marylebone Lane, rebuilt in 1890 and listed on CAMRA's…
King & Queen
Fitzrovia, ENG
The King & Queen has held a licence at 1-2 Foley Street since 1767, and the Grade II listed…
Royal Oak Marylebone
Marylebone, ENG
The Royal Oak has stood on York Street since 1807, when local victualler Richard Bass took it over;…
The Barley Mow
Marylebone, ENG
The Barley Mow has traded from 8 Dorset Street since it opened to the public in 1793, two years…
The Cross Keys Covent Garden
Covent Garden, ENG
The Cross Keys has traded from a Grade II listed corner building on Endell Street since the street…
The French House
Soho, ENG
Opened as the York Minster in 1891, run by the Belgian Berlemont family from 1914 to 1989 — de…
The Nag's Head, Belgravia
Belgravia, ENG
The Nag's Head sits on Kinnerton Street, a cobbled mews just south of Knightsbridge, in an early…
The Rake
Borough, ENG
Richard Dinwoodie and Mike Hill, the founders of the beer importer Utobeer, opened The Rake in 2006…
The Seven Stars
London, ENG
The Seven Stars stands behind the Royal Courts of Justice on Carey Street, a tiny free house in a…
The Toucan, Soho
Soho, ENG
The Toucan occupies a Grade II listed building on Carlisle Street dating to the 1730s, its cellar…
Rest
22 York Street
Marylebone, ENG
22 York Street is a bed and breakfast run by Liz and Michael Callis from a five-storey Georgian…
Celtic Hotel
Bloomsbury, ENG
The Celtic Hotel occupies three combined Georgian townhouses on Guilford Street, close to Russell…
Crescent Hotel
Bloomsbury, ENG
The Crescent Hotel occupies a Grade II listed Georgian townhouse on Cartwright Gardens, a curved…
Harlingford Hotel
Bloomsbury, ENG
The Davies family has run the Harlingford Hotel on Cartwright Gardens since 1960, the third…
Hazlitt's
Soho, ENG
Peter McKay and Douglas Blain opened Hazlitt's hotel in 1986 inside the Frith Street townhouses…
Jesmond Hotel
Bloomsbury, ENG
Alexander Hendy built 63 Gower Street in 1786 as one of thirteen houses commissioned by Gertrude,…
Luna Simone Hotel
Pimlico, ENG
The Luna Simone Hotel has operated as a family-run guesthouse on Belgrave Road, Pimlico, since Mr…
Megaro Hotel
Camden, unparished area, ENG
A design-led boutique hotel at 1 Belgrove Street, two minutes' walk from King's Cross and St…
Mentone Hotel
Bloomsbury, ENG
Simon Tyner's parents bought the Mentone Hotel in Cartwright Gardens in 1972, and Simon still runs…
Thanet Hotel
Bloomsbury, ENG
The Thanet Hotel occupies a townhouse at 8 Bedford Place built in 1802-03 on the former grounds of…
The Belgrave Hotel Pimlico
Pimlico, ENG
The Belgrave occupies four combined Grade II listed townhouses built during Thomas Cubitt's 1840s…
The Fielding Hotel
Covent Garden, ENG
The Fielding Hotel sits on Broad Court, a pedestrianised court facing the Royal Opera House, and…
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