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The Best Bakeries In London Right Now
The best spots to find sourdough loaves, excellent doughnuts, and counters filled with freshly baked pastries.
The 16 Best Breakfasts In London
Whether you want to impress at an early morning meeting, or need the endorphin hit of your knife nudging open an oozing yolk, these are the best breakfasts in London.
The Best Brunches In Notting Hill
The Notting Hill spots where you should be eating pancakes, eggs, and more.
The Best French Toast In London
Peanut butter-stuffed, Belgian chocolate-topped, and everything in between.
Where To Go For A Big Group Brunch
10 roomy spots where you can have brunch with (almost) everyone you know.
A Definitive Guide To London’s Best Pancakes
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Snackbar
Snackbar is a cafe on Dalston Lane that serves a range of excellent breakfast, lunch, and brunch plates.
Funchal Bakery
Funchal Bakery in Brixton is the platonic ideal of a Portuguese cafe: equal parts bakery, deli, cafe, caff, bar, general hangout.
Palmeira
Palmeira in Leyton is a fantastic Portuguese deli-cum-greasy spoon, popular with families and Orient fans on weekends.
A Portuguese Love Affair
Cosy and casual, A Portuguese Love Affair is a Hackney cafe with great Portuguese food and one of the best pastel de nata in London.
The Best Bakeries In London Right Now
The best spots to find sourdough loaves, excellent doughnuts, and counters filled with freshly baked pastries.
The Allotment Kitchen
The Allotment Kitchen, part of Stepney City Farm, is a leafy, fairy light-sprinkled oasis that serves excellent brunch dishes, Baileys hot chocolate, and honeycomb-topped Guinness cake.
The Laundry
At some point, between eating comforting Antipodean dishes and admiring the mint green banquettes, you’ll realise you’ve been at The Laundry in Brixton for three blissful hours.
Suba Bakery
Suba Bakery is a tiny, Gambian-influenced bakery in Walthamstow that makes some of London’s best pastries.
Mud
At Mud—a Tooting cafe—portions are generous, dishes are bursting with colour, and there's the same chaotic, fun energy as being around the kitchen table with your family.
Hala Restaurant
Hala Restaurant is a Turkish Green Lanes stalwart, where the food is either solid or great.
Yasar Halim
Yasar Halim is a Turkish bakery on Green Lanes where no-nonsense service belies the sweetness of flaky filo desserts and soft, pillowy breads.
Emy's Kitchen
Emy's Kitchen is a Turkish spot that specialises in the kind of breakfasts that will leave you rolling out the door and mumbling about heaven being in Crouch Hill.
The Best Brunches In Notting Hill
The Notting Hill spots where you should be eating pancakes, eggs, and more.
The 16 Best Breakfasts In London
Whether you want to impress at an early morning meeting, or need the endorphin hit of your knife nudging open an oozing yolk, these are the best breakfasts in London.
Bar Bruno
A classic, cash-only, Britalian Soho cafe, Bar Bruno is a place for sometime actors, wannabe musicians, builders, workers, and anyone who wants a fry-up.
Pipoca Vegan
One of our favourite lunch spots in Brixton is Pipoca Vegan. The vegan cafe serves the kind of nourishing bowls that make you forget there’s no meat.
Sunday
Line up at this Islington cafe in the search of tasty food and the smug satisfaction that comes from knowing great weeks start with Sunday.
A Definitive Guide To London’s Best Pancakes
Sweet, savoury, or packed full of peking duck, these are London’s best pancakes.
Milk Beach Soho
By day, Milk Beach's carefree staff and avocado-heavy Aussie brunch menu transports you from Soho to a Byron Bay beach club. At night, the lighting becomes dim and flirty—like us after a few negronis.
Pavilion Mentmore Studios
Pavilion Mentmore Studios is a cafe with excellent, gooey cheese toasties and near-perfect pastries, but inside it can feel as cold as the grey Leyton industrial estate it sits on.
It's Bagels
It's Bagels is a Primrose Hill spot with a simple deli-style set up, and some of the best bagels in London.
Sakonis
Sakonis is a comfortable vegetarian Indian spot in Wembley, best-known for its big spread buffet.
Ace Cafe
Ace Cafe is a classic biker hangout off the North Circular near Stonebridge Park that makes perfectly passable caff food.