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Bunhead Bakery
Bunhead Bakery is a Palestinian bakery on Dulwich Road in Herne Hill, opposite…
CellarMother Superior
Mother Superior is a natural wine shop and bar at 26 Nunhead Green, opened in…
CounterAlexandra Nurseries
Alexandra Nurseries is an independent garden centre and café on Parish Lane in…
TableBliss Coffee
Bliss Coffee is a small independent coffee shop at 264 The Broadway in…
RestGreenland Villa
Greenland Villa is a seven-room Victorian guest house at 9 Charlton Road, on…
WorkshopClayKilnCraft
ClayKilnCraft is an open-access pottery studio at 20 Church Road in Crystal…
Grounds
15grams
Greenwich, ENG
15grams started at a kitchen table in 2019, when co-founders Joe Faulkner and Inas Sid began…
Assembly Coffee
Brixton, ENG
Assembly Coffee occupies a single roastery and café at 244 Ferndale Road in Brixton. Nick Mabey and…
Cafe Crofton Park
Crofton Park, ENG
Breakfast and brunch café on Brockley Road at the Crofton Park end of Brockley, serving a menu that…
Canvas & Cream
Forest Hill, ENG
A combined café, restaurant and creative space on London Road, Forest Hill, sharing its building…
Dirty Crunch
Croydon, ENG
Dirty Crunch is a women-owned deli and cafe on Lower Addiscombe Road in Croydon, serving…
Fresh Ground Coffee House
Eltham, ENG
Community café run by Eltham Green Community Church from its building on Westhorne Avenue, open…
Good as Gold
Brockley, ENG
Good as Gold occupies a corner unit at 209 Mantle Road, a short walk from Brockley station, run by…
Goodcup
Nunhead, ENG
Independent coffee shop on Nunhead Green, trading since 2018. Serves Allpress espresso, Good &…
Lomond Coffee
Deptford, ENG
Female-owned coffee roastery trading from an arch at Deptford Market Yard, off Deptford High…
Petitou
Peckham, ENG
Petitou occupies a converted corner butcher's shop on Choumert Road in Peckham, serving mostly…
St Davids Coffee House
Forest Hill, ENG
Owned by actress Sian Polhill-Thomas with friends Jordan Cluroe and Russell Whitehead, this Forest…
Volcano Coffee Works
London, ENG
Kurt Stewart, a New Zealander who wanted to bring the coffee he grew up with to Britain, started…
Table
Babur
Forest Hill, ENG
Babur has served modern Indian food from the same corner of Brockley Rise in Forest Hill since…
Bliss Coffee
Wimbledon, ENG
Bliss Coffee is a small independent coffee shop at 264 The Broadway in Wimbledon, run as a family…
Ciullósteria
Balham, ENG
Ciullósteria sits on Balham High Road under chef Giuseppe Calcagno, whose family had worked in…
Ganapati
London, ENG
Claire Fisher opened Ganapati on Holly Grove in the week before Christmas 2004, after training in…
Gandhi's
Kennington, ENG
Opened in 1982 as the first Indian restaurant on Kennington Road, Gandhi's has been owned and run…
Girassois
Tooting, ENG
A family-run Brazilian kitchen and bar on Mitcham Road in Tooting, opened in 2024. Girassois,…
Hausu, Peckham
Peckham, ENG
Holly Middleton-Joseph opened Hausu with her brother Tom Middleton-Joseph and business partner…
Juliet's Quality Foods
Tooting, ENG
Lauren Johns and Julian Porter — the couple behind Balham's Milk, disclosed here as the family's…
Milk
Balham, ENG
Julian Porter and Lauren Johns opened Milk on Bedford Hill in 2012 and built the café Balham queues…
Minnow
Clapham, ENG
Minnow opened on The Pavement in Clapham in July 2017, founded by Chris Frichot and Saba Tsegaye,…
Persepolis
Peckham, ENG
Sally and Jamshid Butcher opened their Persian corner shop on Peckham High Street in 1995, and it…
Smoke & Salt
Tooting, ENG
Smoke & Salt sits on Tooting High Street, where chefs Remi Williams and Aaron Webster settled in…
Larder
Ayres the Bakers
Nunhead, ENG
Fred Ayre opened the Nunhead bakery in 1955, and Vincent Ayre runs it now — the sixth generation of…
Bunhead Bakery
Herne Hill, ENG
Bunhead Bakery is a Palestinian bakery on Dulwich Road in Herne Hill, opposite Brockwell Park. Sara…
Chadwicks Quality Family Butchers
Balham, ENG
Gary and Jennie Chadwick have run Chadwicks Quality Family Butchers from Balham High Road since…
Dee Light Bakery
Balham, ENG
Dee Light Bakery operates from a single site on Ritherdon Road in Balham, an Australian-owned…
Deli Twenty Two
East Dulwich, ENG
Deli Twenty Two sits on Forest Hill Road, run by Amy and James, two chefs who set the shop's…
Dugard & Daughters
Herne Hill, ENG
Neil and Rosie Dugard were made redundant six weeks apart — she from Microsoft, he close behind —…
Ellis Butchers
London, ENG
Nick Ellis, a butcher of more than twenty years' standing, took over the shop at 12 Blackheath…
Eric's Bakery, East Dulwich
East Dulwich, ENG
Helen Evans, formerly head baker at the restaurant Flor, opened Eric's on Upland Road in East…
FC Soper
Nunhead, ENG
FC Soper runs as a family business on Evelina Road, taking phone orders alongside its walk-in…
Hamish Johnston
Battersea, ENG
Will Johnston opened this cheese shop on Northcote Road in 1994 and it remains a single, family-run…
Kamari
Crystal Palace, ENG
Kamari trades as a single Greek deli and café at 25 Westow Street in Crystal Palace, run by George,…
M. Moen & Sons
Clapham, ENG
Maurice Moen opened his shop on Clapham's Pavement in 1971, and his son Garry has run it for years…
Culture
APT Gallery
London, ENG
The Art in Perpetuity Trust converted a wharf building on Deptford Creek into studio space in 1995.…
Bearspace
Deptford, ENG
Bearspace occupies 152 Deptford High Street, a space founder Julia Alvarez moved into after…
Hootananny
Brixton, ENG
Hootananny is a live music venue, bar and beer garden at 95 Effra Road in Brixton, opened in…
Jack Studio Theatre
Brockley, ENG
The Jack Studio Theatre occupies a small purpose-built space behind the Brockley Jack pub on…
MMX Gallery
New Cross, ENG
MMX Gallery occupies a former photography studio on New Cross Road, founded in 2014 by Mark and…
Peckhamplex
Peckham, ENG
Peckhamplex occupies a former Sainsbury's supermarket on Rye Lane, converted into a cinema in 1994.…
The Fan Museum
Greenwich, ENG
Founded in 1991 by Hélène Alexander MBE and her late husband Richard 'Dickie' A. V. Alexander OBE,…
Theatre503
Battersea, ENG
Housed above the Latchmere pub on Battersea Park Road, this venue began life as the Latchmere…
Turf Projects
Croydon, ENG
An artist-run contemporary art space inside the Whitgift Centre shopping mall in Croydon, founded…
Workshop
Ceramics Studio Co-op, Deptford
Deptford, ENG
Established in 2014, Ceramics Studio Co-op occupies workshop space on Childers Street in Deptford,…
ClayKilnCraft
Crystal Palace, ENG
ClayKilnCraft is an open-access pottery studio at 20 Church Road in Crystal Palace, started in 2014…
GK Jewellers
Eltham, ENG
Jeweller in Eltham Arcade off the High Street, opened in 2021 by George Klarmann after a five-year…
Greenwich Printmakers
London, ENG
Five printmakers — Elaine Marshall, Jean Barham, Elizabeth Morris, Maureen Black and Susan Sands —…
HF Framing
Summerstown, ENG
Established in 2018, this bespoke picture framing workshop operates from a single studio inside…
London Clay Pottery Studio
Brockley, ENG
London Clay occupies a unit inside the Brockley Cross Business Centre on Endwell Road, opened by…
Melisa Dora Ceramics
Forest Hill, ENG
Melisa Dora runs her ceramics studio from the rear of 57a Dartmouth Road in Forest Hill, a…
Urban Potters
Camberwell, ENG
Urban Potters opened its Camberwell studio in June 2022, just off Camberwell Green, under potter…
Counter
Alexandra Nurseries
Penge, ENG
Alexandra Nurseries is an independent garden centre and café on Parish Lane in Penge, opened in…
Alleyn Park Garden Centre
West Dulwich, ENG
Alleyn Park Garden Centre opened in 2004 behind Park Hall Road in West Dulwich, founded by two…
Backstory
London, ENG
Tom Rowley left a career reporting for The Economist and The Washington Post to sell books from a…
Beckenham Bookshop
Beckenham, ENG
An independent bookshop on Beckenham High Street, opposite St George's Church and five minutes'…
Bookmongers
Brixton, ENG
American-born bookseller Patrick Kelly opened Bookmongers in 1992, taking premises previously…
Bookseller Crow on the Hill
Crystal Palace, ENG
Justine Crow and Jonathan Main ran their bookshop on Westow Street for more than a quarter of a…
Dr Vinyl
Tooting, ENG
Dr Vinyl trades from Unit 38 inside Tooting Market on Tooting High Street, a single record shop…
Eden Park Garden Centre
Beckenham, ENG
Trading from Upper Elmers End Road since the 1970s, this garden centre grew out of a nursery site…
Green's Art Stationers, Toyshop & Gallery
Dulwich, ENG
Green's has traded as a stationer and toyshop from the same shopfront in Dulwich Village for close…
Herne Hill Books
Herne Hill, ENG
Herne Hill Books opened in 2009 on Railton Road, in a building that spent much of the twentieth…
Kirkdale Bookshop
Sydenham, ENG
Opened in October 1966 in a former motorcycle shop on Kirkdale, this two-floor shop is thought to…
Pure Vinyl Records
Brixton, ENG
Pure Vinyl opened in Brixton's Reliance Arcade in 2015, founded by Claudia Wilson, a DJ who grew up…
Cellar
Bottle Bar and Shop
Catford, ENG
Bottle Bar and Shop is run by husband and wife Xhulio Sina and Natalie John from a small unit on…
Clarkshaws Brewery
Brixton, ENG
Clarkshaws is a family-run nano-brewery working from a railway arch in Loughborough Junction,…
D Vine Cellars
Clapham, ENG
D Vine Cellars began in 2009 as a weekend stall at Venn Street Market, when Greg Andrews started…
Jensen's Gin
Bermondsey, ENG
A small gin distillery under a railway arch in Bermondsey, founded by Christian Jensen in 2004…
Mother Superior
Nunhead, ENG
Mother Superior is a natural wine shop and bar at 26 Nunhead Green, opened in November 2020 in a…
Southey Brewing Co
Penge, ENG
A craft brewery on Southey Street in Penge, established in 2016 with its taproom opening two years…
Southwark Brewing Company
Bermondsey, ENG
Southwark Brewing Company was founded in 2014 by Peter Jackson and Andy Nichol with brewer Sean…
Streatham Wine House
Streatham, ENG
Jimmy and Beth, who also run West London Wine School, joined wine and beer specialist Jonny Tyson…
The Kernel Brewery
London, ENG
Evin O'Riordain started brewing under a railway arch on Druid Street in 2009, on a 6.5-hectolitre…
Villages Brewery
Deptford, ENG
Villages Brewery operates from railway arches on Resolution Way in Deptford, set up at the end of…
Wild + Lees
London, ENG
Liam Plowman had lived in Herne Hill for twenty years and worked in media before he spent two years…
Snug
Backstory
London, ENG
Tom Rowley left a career reporting for The Economist and The Washington Post to sell books from a…
Blythe Hill Tavern
Forest Hill, ENG
Landlord Con Riordan has run the Blythe Hill Tavern on Stanstead Road for more than thirty years.…
Skehan's
Nunhead, ENG
Skehan's is a traditional Irish free house at 1 Kitto Road in Nunhead, in a building that has…
The Alma
Crystal Palace, ENG
The Alma occupies a building dating to 1854 on Church Road, in the Crystal Palace triangle, and…
The Bear
Camberwell, ENG
The Bear reopened on Camberwell New Road in May 2023 under new owners Teddy Roberts and Joe…
The Gowlett Arms
Peckham, ENG
The Gowlett is a backstreet freehouse on a quiet residential road at the southern edge of Peckham,…
The Ivy House
London, ENG
The current building on Stuart Road, designed in the 1930s for Truman's Brewery, replaced an…
The Priory Arms Stockwell
Stockwell, ENG
A freehouse near Stockwell and Vauxhall, run independently rather than tied to a brewery, known…
Three Hounds Beer Co
Beckenham, ENG
Three Hounds opened on Beckenham Road in the Clock House area in 2020, running as a beer café,…
Wild + Lees
London, ENG
Liam Plowman had lived in Herne Hill for twenty years and worked in media before he spent two years…
Rest
Beckenham Park Hotel
Beckenham, ENG
Beckenham Park Hotel occupies a preserved townhouse on Copers Cope Road, close to Beckenham Place…
Church Street Hotel
Camberwell, ENG
Church Street Hotel occupies three joined Georgian townhouses on Camberwell Church Street, run…
Greenland Villa
Blackheath, ENG
Greenland Villa is a seven-room Victorian guest house at 9 Charlton Road, on the Blackheath and…
Marple Cottage Guest House, Wimbledon
Wimbledon, ENG
Nick and Bridgette have run Marple Cottage Guest House on Woodside in Wimbledon as a family…
Melrose Guest House
Penge, ENG
A family-run guest house on Lennard Road, on the Penge and Beckenham border, around 15 minutes by…
Streatham Common Bed & Breakfast
Streatham, ENG
Streatham Common Bed & Breakfast operates from a 1930s house on Donnybrook Road, a short walk from…
The Heathers Catford
Catford, ENG
Run as a small family bed and breakfast on Verdant Lane in Catford, this guest house offers a…
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