The Music Room Mayfair hosts designer clothes, shoes, and homeware at a fraction of the price. Snap them up, then wander Gray’s Antique Market next door!

The Antwerp Arms in Tottenham is a community-run pub with local beers, pop-up food, live music, and a warm, welcoming spirit that feels like home.

Since 1911, Rinkoffs has served East End classics — beigels, babka, rugelach — alongside new hits like crodoughs, vegan cakes, and timeless cheesecake.

In the middle of Canary Wharf, there is an installation of nature and water, with topiary, boardwalks, seating and a swimming spot! Real wild swimming in London!

Discover London’s new Chinatown in the east, with Cloud Land serving authentic Yunnan dishes like spicy chicken, Over the Bridge noodles, and crisp cucumber salad.

Yummzy in Canary Wharf crafts delicious keto, gluten-free, and vegan desserts, offers London delivery and fun workshops for food and fitness fans.

Tucked in the glass-and-steel towers, Goodmans Fields is a new green area with benches, sculptures, and a play area. a perfect to pause and soak up some sun.

A must try for me at Paradise Soho are the gigantic grilled ceylonese prawns - tender and smokey from the charring & the cashew curry along with a hopper.

If you arrive in the morning you’ll find their popular morning buns with a variety of fillings, sticky buns, beignets, and more!

As an independent wine bar their focus is on stocking wines from smaller producers, lesser known regions and grape varieties, and also female winemakers.

The team at the Penny Drop are real coffee geeks in the best possible sense of the word and go to great lengths sourcing the best coffee beans out there.

Quiet yet somehow buzzing, classy yet unpretentious, central yet hidden. What impresses me most is the concentration of great spots in such a small area.