I found myself in Fortnum and Mason multiple times on my trip to London. The perfect spot to grab…read moretea and gifts for souvenirs to bring back home. I loved how the shop was laid out, everything was just beautiful. I stocked up on SO much tea, my favorite being the Countess Grey. My friend and I sat in their bistro for snacks and tea after an overnight flight. It was nice to have a spot where we could just relax. I loved their scones and my only regret is I wish I had gotten a scotch egg! I bought enough tea biscuits for about a year and look forward to working my way through while sipping on all my tea!

While walkng along Piccadilly, I chanced upon this 18th-century department store known for its…read moregourmet groceries including a wide selection of "high-quality" teas, posh preserves, biscuits, chocolates, and gourmet food items. The multilevel interiors are classy and whimsical, displays are beautiful, decorations festive, and the atmosphere is lively with a lot of shoppers intermingled with all the vibrant colors. My senses were too overwhelmed and overloaded with all the bright colors meant o excite and entice one to buy that I limited myself to 2 floors and didn't go further up to explore their tea room, etc. Packaging is eye-catching and colorful but the biscuits just taste average. Staff are professional, friendly, and helpful.

This little stall is always set up outside Feng Shui restaurant although I'm not sure there is any…read moreconnection to the restaurant. A little sign proclaims that this confectionery was invented for an emperor several millennia ago. It's fascinating to watch as the chef starts with a piece of maltose sugar, which is elastic and this is formed into a ring shaped and with repeated dipping into toasted flour to keep the strands separate, is repeatedly stretched and twisted with each repetition tripling the number of strands. The final resulting collection of fine strands is then divided into small bunches which are put around crushed peanuts. Eaten immediately, these are soft and quite moreish. The chef says that these can be kept in the fridge but they will turn hard. It's entertainment as much as food which draws the crowds. Fun to watch but prices are a bit steep at £3 for one box and £10 for 4 boxes.

COVID-19 Heroes Top Quality Products sourced to perfection…read more I Have lived in Nunhead since 2010 and until recently I was quite an infrequent customer. All thanks to the COVID-19 crisis I have now become a regular customer! What is there not to like about this butcher? Top quality cuts supplied at a very reasonable price, I love the ham, game pie, corned beef and oh the pie & liquor. During the COVID-19 crisis this dedicated team of three have been resolute and not altered opening hours. I do hope when this crisis is over we will not forget which establishments stayed open. You are all Community Heroes.

Excellent traditional butchers and very reasonably priced. The actual butchers are very good and…read morefriendly and always happy to help. They have been around since 1955 and are a quality outfit.

They had a caroling group singing & plenty of indoor seating that you could bring ANY food into…read more It was small but had a good mix of different foods. It also had a lot less tourists!!! & more of a neighborhood market feel.

Amazing lobster rolls BUT not available when raining (sadly). Cute food truck street with…read morepersonality & seating spaces. Highlights include lobster rolls (avoid the seared tuna -- not for me), amazing crispy duck fat triple cooked chips!!! Get them! The dumplings were lukewarm / cold and covered in spicy sauce. Skip, better options available. Pho lovely and warm but prefer vermicelli noodles to the thicker ones in them. The duck wrap was nice (not a fan of tomato in it). The confit duck better pick. The smash burger took absolutely ages! Man very sweet & brought it over to us. The steak & frites with pepper sauce was great. But dipped the duck fat chips in that sauce & was in food heaven.

As Tom Jones sang:…read more "It's not unusual to find Lebanese nut shops on side streets in London" OK... that wasn't a hit song or pleasurable lyric. But here indeed is a small shop offering nuts from the middle east. They also offer Baklava-like pastries and other dry goods, but by any measure it's not a standard corner shop. The owner is an absolute delight... Mr. Happy. But as mentioned, this is a tiny store - not a destination to find everything you want like the Harrods of Nuts. The selection is much smaller and simple. If walking near, stop by for a snack. Go somewhere else for a meal.

This is a great little shop which I walk past every day on my way to work. They have a supply of…read moredifferent flavoured cashews, peanuts, and my favourite - chinese peanut crackers, which are a pound for 100gms. They also have a range of other jarred bits and pieces and sacks of lentils and beans but I only go for the nuts. The shop owners are really nice and happy to help.

It was foodie time at Borough Market on Tuesday (our last full day in London), and it was foodie…read moreheaven for me and my family. We enjoyed walking around and seeing a wide variety of food options! The whole market area was clean and organized when we got there at 9am. No lines yet. Long lines did start forming around 9:45am when the hot foods were ready but moved pretty quickly. We tried: * The Ginger Pig - Traditional Sausage Roll * Wild Mushroom Risotto - Spelt Risotto with Truffle Shavings * Turnips Greengrocer - Chocolate Covered Strawberries * The Black Pig - The Best One With Crackling * Turkish Deli - Turkish Delight & Turkish Coffee * Bread Ahead - Crème Brûlée Donut

I wish this place didn't close so early...like 5pm early. That said, we were there for about 20…read moreminutes and got a good sense of the vibe. It is a farmer's type market with some prepared foods, which were top notch. We walked the entire thing and grabbed as much as we could to eat. There are plenty of food places just outside the space that are open later as well. I got some meat sticks from a vendor, sort of farmers market style. There was also another stand that had fruit in a cup with chocolate.Our best deal were some arepas that were half off because it was closing time and they wanted to get rid of them. This isn't the place to take pictures, but rather to immerse yourself in all the goodness that is here.

If only there were more places like this. Your truely classic family butch. Does a large selection…read moreof meats, if something isn't instock it can be ordered in. I hear the turkey for Christmas is amazing - the queues outside are a sign of that! It's very reasonable price-wise, it certainly makes more sense to buy from them as it's local produce and you're supporting a local business. Also, you won't need to drive! Friendly as always, hope they are around for a long time yet! Opening hours can be a bit of a pain, but that's a small price to pay! Roll on summer.

Ah an Organic Haven!! It makes my mouth water. Fresh, locally-baked bread, organic lemon curd…read moremade only with easily understood ingredients, a dozen different kinds of honey. Deliciousness at its best. Seaweed rice cakes, muesli like woah, and so much other good stuff. Walking into this place made me weak in the knees. I want it all! All! On my dinner plate. And in my lunch box. And in my bowl with milk in the morning. Too bad I can't afford it all. Although the store doesn't have astronomical prices and I do think it's cheaper than Holland and Barrett, it is more expensive than your chains like Iceland or Tesco Metro. Sad but true. The prices were NOT terrible, but more than I felt like spending. On a day I feel like treating myself, however, I will definitely go back. Also, as a note, I heard one member of the staff advising a customer on nutrition, and I think he gave some good suggestions. Basic, at least in my mind which tends to have a nutrition fix, but not something all people think about - whole grain instead of white bread and potatoes, honey instead of sugar, etc. Sum it up in one word? Knowledgeable. In two? Knowledgeable and helpful. I'm going to have to go back. The only reason I knocked it down a star I price is because it's more expensive than general grocery stores, but that's always the case in this sad sad world. Woe is us poor organic food lovers.

When it comes to health food stores I'm very picky. That's because I've been studying herbal…read moreformulas, complementary medicine etc for years, I have an obsession with health food stores and have visited them in dozens of countries and cities, from Los Angeles to Spain to South London. Baldwins is absolutelyTHE best health food store in the UK in my experience. Amazing choice of herbs, tinctures, supplements and other health care products including an extremely reliable, high-quality and reasonably-priced range of raw Chinese and Indian herbs/barks. Utterly fantastic. http://www.facebook.com/preciouswilliamswriter

An oasis in a desert of shopping chain dross. Fantastic selection of Italian foodstuffs. Very…read morefriendly and helpful staff.