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  • 13th Floor CoffeeA converted horsebox parked in St Mary's churchyard on Stoke Newington Church Street, serving specialty coffee and baked treats from the team behind the End of the Road festival.
  • Amoret CoffeeA small, roasting-focused specialty coffee bar on Pembridge Road, expanded from an original Hammersmith shop.
  • Assembly Coffee RoastersA specialty roaster and cafe operating out of a converted 19th-century fire station on Ferndale Road.
  • Bad CoffeeA micro-roastery and takeaway espresso bar in a Hackney Wick unit, with playful yellow branding and small-batch coffee from smallholder farms.
  • Bar ItaliaA Soho Italian coffee bar opened in 1949 by the Polledri family, who still own it, with its original red-and-white formica and Gaggia espresso machine and opening hours that run to 4am.
  • Brickwood Coffee & BreadAn Australian-inspired cafe directly opposite Clapham Common tube station serving in-house baked bread, pastries and a brunch menu.
  • Carbon Kopi (Barons Court)A small independent coffee shop tucked into a residential corner of Barons Court, two minutes from the tube station.
  • Catalyst Coffee RoastersA coffee roaster and café on a corner of Gray's Inn Road in Holborn, roasting and grinding its own beans on site since 2016.
  • Chief CoffeeA Chiswick specialty coffee shop in a former Victorian bottling factory, with a pinball lounge downstairs and a floor of Japanese arcade machines. It is an unusual mix of proper coffee and playtime.
  • Curators Coffee StudioA specialty coffee shop on Cullum Street in the City of London, with a guest coffee that rotates monthly alongside its regular beans.
  • Devotion CoffeeA compact specialty coffee bar tucked on Cross Street near Angel, pouring guest beans from acclaimed international roasters.
  • E. PellicciA Grade II-listed Italian-run East End cafe with a 1940s Formica interior, serving big cooked breakfasts, steak pie and home-style Italian dishes to regulars and visitors alike.
  • E5 BakehouseA wood-fired bakery under a railway arch in London Fields, grinding its own flour and baking sourdough visible from the counter.
  • George's CafeA small, Italian-family-run cafe on Leytonstone High Road that has served hearty breakfasts, home-made lunches and hand-cut chips since 1983.
  • Ginger & WhiteA family-run café down a cobbled Hampstead alleyway, making its bread, cakes, and breakfasts from scratch every day.
  • KronotropThe first UK outpost of the Istanbul-founded specialty coffee roaster, occupying a heritage corner building on Mortimer Street.
  • Kula CafeA Swedish-style waffle café tucked into St Christopher's Place in Marylebone, serving buttermilk waffles and ice cream sundaes.
  • Lisboa PatisserieA small Portuguese cafe and bakery on Golborne Road, in the area's Portuguese enclave, best known for its pasteis de nata and Portuguese coffees such as bica and galao.
  • Lodestar CoffeeA compact, owner-operated coffee bar on Clarence Road in Lower Clapton that rotates guest roasters through its espresso and filter menu and sells beans from UK and European roasters.
  • Louis PatisserieA Hungarian patisserie and tearoom on Hampstead's Heath Street, open since 1963, with wood-panelled walls and a continental coffee-house feel.
  • Maison BertauxA tiny Soho patisserie and tea room, open since 1871, still baking cream cakes, eclairs and fruit tarts on the premises above the shop.
  • Maria's Market CafeA traditional cafe under the arched roof of Borough Market, trading since 1961 and known for its bubble and squeak and full English breakfasts.
  • Monmouth CoffeeA Covent Garden coffee roaster that's been serving since the 1970s, usually with a small queue of regulars out the door.
  • Old Spike RoasteryA coffee roastery and cafe on Peckham Rye run as a social enterprise, training and employing people moving out of homelessness as baristas and roasters.
  • The Original Maids of HonourA traditional bakery and tea room on Kew Road, serving since 1850 and famed for its Maids of Honour curd tarts, with a shop for takeaway pastries and pies and a tea room for cream teas.
  • Ozone Coffee RoastersOzone's London Fields café on the corner of Emma Street, a smaller and more relaxed sibling of its Shoreditch original, good for a long weekend brunch.
  • Pembroke LodgeA Grade II listed Georgian mansion at the highest point of Richmond Park, with tea rooms and gardens looking west over the Thames Valley.
  • PetitouA small neighbourhood cafe and part-time art space on Choumert Road, serving coffee, cakes and simple cooked food with a tiled outdoor terrace that maps Peckham in ceramic.
  • Prufrock CoffeeOne of the shops that helped kick off London's specialty coffee scene, still roasting and pulling shots on Leather Lane.
  • Regency CafeAn art deco caff serving English breakfasts behind its original tiling and Formica-topped tables since 1946, and a well-known film location.
  • Speedy's Sandwich Bar & CafeA real, working cafe on North Gower Street that doubles as the exterior of '221B Baker Street' throughout BBC's Sherlock.
  • Violet CakesA California-style bakery and cafe on Wilton Way run by cookbook author Claire Ptak, known for seasonal cakes and baked goods.
  • WatchHouse (Bermondsey Street)The original WatchHouse, opened in 2014 inside a real 19th-century watch house on Bermondsey Street.
  • ZeroToOne CoffeeA tiny Vietnamese specialty coffee shop on Widegate Street near Liverpool Street, roasting its own beans sourced directly from Vietnamese farms.

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