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The one to order is Buontalenti - egg-rich and barely flavoured with anything but cream - named for the Medici court architect said to have invented it.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Badiani Canary Wharf, Canada Place, E14 5AH, London","bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"ARC","s":"arc","c":"whats-on","cn":"What\u2019s On","m":150},{"n":"Notes","s":"notes-canary-wharf","c":"coffee","cn":"Coffee","m":179},{"n":"GoBoat Canary Wharf","s":"goboat-canary-wharf","c":"whats-on","cn":"What\u2019s On","m":189}],"near_same":[{"s":"badiani-cabot-square","m":304},{"s":"badiani-wood-wharf","m":392},{"s":"dark-sugars-cocoa-house","m":2709},{"s":"dark-sugars-ice-creams","m":2720},{"s":"dark-sugars-chocolates","m":4322},{"s":"crosstown","m":4360}]},{"slug":"badiani-chelsea","name":"Badiani Chelsea","area":"Chelsea","address":"303 Fulham Road, SW10 9QH","station":"Gloucester Road","walk":11,"lat":51.48686,"lng":-0.179225,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":null,"hours_short":"Hours are not published.","hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":null,"website":"https://www.badiani1932.com/shops/uk","instagram":"badiani1932","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/8223720869","types":["gelato"],"verdict":"The Fulham Road end of Chelsea, and a Florentine cone.","note":"One of the London shops of Badiani, gelato-makers in Florence since Idilio Badiani opened on viale dei Mille in 1932. Order the Buontalenti - milk, cream, sugar, eggs, named for Bernardo Buontalenti of the Medici court - before anything with a biscuit in it.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Badiani Chelsea, 303 Fulham Road, SW10 9QH, London","in_area":{"slug":"chelsea","name":"Chelsea"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Rosalind Franklin's flat, Donovan Court","s":"rosalind-franklins-flat-donovan-court","c":"science","cn":"Science & Engineering","m":61},{"n":"Jenny Lind","s":"jenny-lind","c":"world","cn":"The World in London","m":588},{"n":"James McNeill Whistler","s":"james-mcneill-whistler-house","c":"world","cn":"The World in London","m":617}],"near_same":[{"s":"rococo-chocolates-kings-road","m":368},{"s":"aux-merveilleux-de-fred","m":644},{"s":"oddonos-gelati","m":780},{"s":"maitre-choux","m":831},{"s":"venchi-exhibition-road","m":977},{"s":"venchi-kings-road","m":1068}]},{"slug":"badiani-covent-garden","name":"Badiani Covent Garden","area":"Covent Garden","address":"2 Mercer Walk, WC2H 9QP","station":"Covent Garden","walk":1,"lat":51.513219,"lng":-0.125725,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":null,"hours_short":"Hours are not published.","hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":null,"website":"https://www.badiani1932.com/shops/uk","instagram":"badiani1932","maps_name":null,"attrs":["stepfree"],"osm":"way/485638353","types":["gelato"],"verdict":"Gelato on the quiet lane between Long Acre and Seven Dials.","note":"The Covent Garden branch of the Florentine gelateria Idilio Badiani started in 1932, tucked into Mercer Walk rather than out on the piazza, which makes it a better place to stand with a cone. Buontalenti - egg-rich, barely flavoured with anything but cream - is the house one, named for the Medici engineer said to have invented it.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Badiani Covent Garden, 2 Mercer Walk, WC2H 9QP, London","in_area":{"slug":"covent-garden","name":"Covent Garden"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Stanfords","s":"stanfords","c":"classic-british-shops","cn":"Classic British Shops","m":34},{"n":"Arome Bakery","s":"arome-bakery","c":"bakeries","cn":"Bakeries","m":38},{"n":"Guinness Open Gate Brewery London","s":"guinness-open-gate-brewery-london","c":"beer","cn":"Beer","m":69}],"near_same":[{"s":"venchi-long-acre","m":99},{"s":"wa-cafe","m":245},{"s":"la-gelatiera","m":246},{"s":"knoops-covent-garden","m":253},{"s":"kova-patisserie-chinatown","m":265},{"s":"cafe-de-nata","m":384}]},{"slug":"badiani-elephant-and-castle","name":"Badiani Elephant and Castle","area":"Southwark & Bankside","address":"Mercato Metropolitano, 42 Newington Causeway, SE1 6DR","station":"Borough","walk":5,"lat":51.498616,"lng":-0.097973,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":null,"hours_short":"Hours are not published.","hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":null,"website":"https://www.badiani1932.com/shops/uk","instagram":"badiani1932","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":null,"types":["gelato"],"verdict":"A Florentine gelato counter inside Mercato Metropolitano.","note":"Badiani's stall in the old paper factory that Mercato Metropolitano fills, which means you can eat it sitting among everyone else's dinner rather than on the pavement. The firm has made gelato in Florence since 1932; Buontalenti, the cream and egg-yolk one, is named after the Medici engineer credited with the original.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Badiani Elephant and Castle, Mercato Metropolitano, 42 Newington Causeway, SE1 6DR, London","bank":0,"near_all":[{"n":"Mercato Metropolitano","s":"mercato-metropolitano","c":"food-markets","cn":"Food Markets","m":40},{"n":"German Kraft Brewery","s":"german-kraft-brewery","c":"beer","cn":"Beer","m":40},{"n":"Southwark Playhouse Borough","s":"southwark-playhouse-borough","c":"venues","cn":"Performance venues","m":116}],"near_same":[{"s":"longboys","m":1017},{"s":"konditor","m":1051},{"s":"crosstown-cannon-street","m":1630},{"s":"longboys-liverpool-street","m":2361},{"s":"venchi-long-acre","m":2420},{"s":"wa-cafe","m":2425}]},{"slug":"badiani-hampstead-heath","name":"Badiani Hampstead Heath","area":"Hampstead","address":"55 South End Road, NW3 2QB","station":"Hampstead Heath","walk":1,"lat":51.555512,"lng":-0.166782,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":null,"hours_short":"Hours are not published.","hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":null,"website":"https://www.badiani1932.com/shops/uk","instagram":"badiani1932","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":null,"types":["gelato"],"verdict":"The cone to take onto the Heath, at South End Green.","note":"At South End Green, a couple of minutes from the southern edge of Hampstead Heath, which is most of the argument for it. 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The firm dates from 1932 in Florence and the signature is Buontalenti, named for the Medici court's Bernardo Buontalenti.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Badiani Mayfair, St Mark's Church, North Audley Street, W1K 6ZA, London","in_area":{"slug":"mayfair","name":"Mayfair"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Mercato Mayfair","s":"mercato-mayfair","c":"food-markets","cn":"Food Markets","m":26},{"n":"German Kraft Mayfair","s":"german-kraft-mayfair","c":"beer","cn":"Beer","m":26},{"n":"Attendant","s":"attendant-mayfair","c":"coffee","cn":"Coffee","m":145}],"near_same":[{"s":"rococo-chocolates","m":735},{"s":"pierre-marcolini","m":844},{"s":"charbonnel-et-walker","m":919},{"s":"venchi-great-marlborough-street","m":942},{"s":"xo-chocolate","m":1064},{"s":"italian-bear-chocolate-soho","m":1118}]},{"slug":"badiani-notting-hill","name":"Badiani Notting Hill","area":"Notting Hill & Holland Park","address":"42 Notting Hill Gate, W11 3HZ","station":"Notting Hill Gate","walk":1,"lat":51.509464,"lng":-0.194945,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":null,"hours_short":"Hours are not published.","hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":null,"website":"https://www.badiani1932.com/shops/uk","instagram":"badiani1932","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/7123959684","types":["gelato"],"verdict":"Florentine gelato on Notting Hill Gate, and the Buontalenti is the one to get.","note":"Idilio Badiani opened his gelateria on viale dei Mille in Florence in the summer of 1932, and this is the same firm rather than a licence. Buontalenti is the flavour to order and the reason the name matters: milk, cream, sugar and eggs and nothing else, named for Bernardo Buontalenti, the Medici court's architect and engineer, who is credited with putting something like gelato in front of the Grand Duke in the sixteenth century.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Badiani Notting Hill, 42 Notting Hill Gate, W11 3HZ, London","in_area":{"slug":"bayswater-paddington","name":"Bayswater & Paddington"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Guillam Notting Hill","s":"guillam-notting-hill","c":"coffee","cn":"Coffee","m":47},{"n":"The Coronet Theatre","s":"the-coronet-theatre","c":"venues","cn":"Performance venues","m":243},{"n":"Richard Wagner","s":"richard-wagner","c":"world","cn":"The World in London","m":366}],"near_same":[{"s":"melt-chocolates","m":598},{"s":"knoops-kensington","m":871},{"s":"knoops-notting-hill","m":1011},{"s":"darlish-notting-hill","m":1082},{"s":"lisboa-patisserie","m":1677},{"s":"badiani-white-city","m":1860}]},{"slug":"badiani-victoria","name":"Badiani Victoria","area":"Westminster","address":"191 Victoria Street, SW1E 5NE","station":"Victoria","walk":1,"lat":51.496405,"lng":-0.144259,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":null,"hours_short":"Hours are not published.","hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":null,"website":"https://www.badiani1932.com/shops/uk","instagram":"badiani1932","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":null,"types":["gelato"],"verdict":"A cone on the Victoria Street walk to the station.","note":"The Victoria Street shop, on the stretch between the Abbey end and the station. Badiani have made gelato in Florence since Idilio Badiani opened on viale dei Mille in 1932, and Buontalenti is theirs: cream, milk, sugar and egg yolk, after the Medici architect credited with inventing it.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Badiani Victoria, 191 Victoria Street, SW1E 5NE, London","in_area":{"slug":"pimlico","name":"Pimlico"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Market Halls Victoria","s":"market-halls-victoria","c":"food-markets","cn":"Food Markets","m":21},{"n":"Hermanos Colombian Coffee Roasters","s":"hermanos-colombian-coffee-roasters","c":"coffee","cn":"Coffee","m":56},{"n":"Ian Fleming's house, 22 Ebury Street","s":"ian-flemings-house-22-ebury-street","c":"secrets","cn":"Secrets & Espionage","m":238}],"near_same":[{"s":"peggy-porschen","m":555},{"s":"rococo-chocolates-belgravia","m":903},{"s":"pierre-herme","m":938},{"s":"lartisan-du-chocolat","m":1093},{"s":"charbonnel-et-walker","m":1429},{"s":"maitre-choux-kings-road","m":1505}]},{"slug":"badiani-white-city","name":"Badiani White City","area":"Shepherd's Bush","address":"Westfield London, Ariel Way, W12 7HB","station":"Wood Lane","walk":2,"lat":51.509676,"lng":-0.221833,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":null,"hours_short":"Hours are not published.","hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":null,"website":"https://www.badiani1932.com/shops/uk","instagram":"badiani1932","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/13331971569","types":["gelato"],"verdict":"Florentine gelato two levels down in Westfield.","note":"The Westfield branch of the gelateria Idilio Badiani opened in Florence in 1932, on the lower level of the centre. Buontalenti is the flavour that carries the firm's name: cream, milk, sugar and egg yolk, after Bernardo Buontalenti of the Medici court, who is credited with the first version of it.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Badiani White City, Westfield London, Ariel Way, W12 7HB, London","bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Westfield London","s":"westfield-london","c":"shopping","cn":"Shopping","m":222},{"n":"Bush Theatre","s":"bush-theatre","c":"venues","cn":"Performance venues","m":583},{"n":"Lao She","s":"lao-she","c":"world","cn":"The World in London","m":623}],"near_same":[{"s":"knoops-notting-hill","m":1349},{"s":"darlish-notting-hill","m":1378},{"s":"melt-chocolates","m":1641},{"s":"lisboa-patisserie","m":1724},{"s":"le-choux","m":1851},{"s":"badiani-notting-hill","m":1860}]},{"slug":"badiani-wood-wharf","name":"Badiani Wood Wharf","area":"Canary Wharf","address":"10 George Street, E14 9QG","station":"South Quay","walk":4,"lat":51.502119,"lng":-0.013554,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":null,"hours_short":"Hours are not published.","hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":null,"website":"https://www.badiani1932.com/shops/uk","instagram":"badiani1932","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/13291319475","types":["gelato"],"verdict":"The newer Canary Wharf shop, on the Wood Wharf side.","note":"Badiani's Wood Wharf branch, on the water side of the estate where the new streets are. The firm has been making gelato in Florence since 1932 and the flavour to try is Buontalenti, an egg custard gelato named for the Medici court's Bernardo Buontalenti.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Badiani Wood Wharf, 10 George Street, E14 9QG, London","bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"GoBoat Canary Wharf","s":"goboat-canary-wharf","c":"whats-on","cn":"What\u2019s On","m":237},{"n":"ARC","s":"arc","c":"whats-on","cn":"What\u2019s On","m":523},{"n":"Notes","s":"notes-canary-wharf","c":"coffee","cn":"Coffee","m":570}],"near_same":[{"s":"badiani-canary-wharf","m":392},{"s":"badiani-cabot-square","m":653},{"s":"dark-sugars-cocoa-house","m":2372},{"s":"dark-sugars-ice-creams","m":2383},{"s":"dark-sugars-chocolates","m":4695},{"s":"crosstown","m":4734}]},{"slug":"cafe-de-nata","name":"Caf\u00e9 de Nata","area":"Soho","address":"25 Old Compton Street, W1D 5JN","station":"Tottenham Court Road","walk":3,"lat":51.513077,"lng":-0.131281,"hours":[[9.0,23.0],[9.0,23.0],[9.0,23.0],[9.0,23.0],[9.0,24.0],[10.0,24.0],[10.0,23.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Th 09:00-23:00; Fr 09:00-24:00; Sa 10:00-24:00; Su 10:00-23:00","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://www.cafedenata.com/","hours_short":null,"hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":"2026-09-10","website":"https://www.cafedenata.com/","instagram":"cafedenata","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"way/1072571806","types":["cakes","late","sitdown","vegan"],"verdict":"Past\u00e9is de nata baked through the day, in front of you, and eaten within the hour.","note":"A pastel de nata is a small custard tart in pastry laminated like a croissant, baked hot enough to blister the top; eaten within an hour of coming out of the oven it is a different thing entirely from one that has sat in a case. Caf\u00e9 de Nata bakes all day in every shop and puts the whole process where you can watch it, which is the reason to buy here rather than off a counter.\n\nThe family business started in 2016 and has spread across London; this is the Soho one, on Old Compton Street, and it is open until eleven most nights and 00:00 on Friday and Saturday. Vegan natas as well as the classic.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Caf\u00e9 de Nata, 25 Old Compton Street, W1D 5JN, London","in_area":{"slug":"soho","name":"Soho"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Old Compton Street","s":"old-compton-street","c":"beautiful-streets","cn":"Beautiful Streets","m":14},{"n":"John Logie Baird's first television, 22 Frith Street","s":"john-logie-bairds-first-television-22-frith-street","c":"science","cn":"Science & Engineering","m":35},{"n":"Ronnie Scott's","s":"ronnie-scotts","c":"venues","cn":"Performance venues","m":44}],"near_same":[{"s":"chin-chin","m":139},{"s":"snowflake-luxury-gelato","m":198},{"s":"kova-patisserie-chinatown","m":211},{"s":"gelupo","m":235},{"s":"kova-patisserie","m":236},{"s":"venchi-wardour-street","m":258}]},{"slug":"charbonnel-et-walker","name":"Charbonnel et Walker","area":"St James's","address":"1 Royal Arcade, 28 Old Bond Street, W1S 4BT","station":"Green Park","walk":4,"lat":51.509128,"lng":-0.141274,"hours":[[10.0,18.5],[10.0,18.5],[10.0,18.5],[10.0,18.5],[10.0,18.5],[10.0,18.5],[12.0,17.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Sa 10:00-18:30; Su 12:00-17:00","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://charbonnel.co.uk/locations","hours_short":null,"hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":"2026-09-10","website":"https://www.charbonnel.co.uk/","instagram":"charbonneletwalker","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"way/290081129","types":["chocolate"],"verdict":"Chocolates made in Britain since 1875, in a glass-roofed Victorian arcade off Old Bond Street.","note":"The firm was set up in 1875 as a partnership between Mrs Walker and Madame Charbonnel, whom the Prince of Wales - later Edward VII - encouraged to come over from Paris. It has been in the Royal Arcade almost ever since, and the arcade itself, built in 1879 with a glass roof and cream stucco shopfronts, is half the reason to go.\n\nThe pink champagne truffles in the round boxes are the thing it is known for; the rose and violet creams and the sea-salt caramels are the other two.","note_links":null,"figure":{"src":"/img/charbonnel-et-walker.jpg?v=8516ff66","thumb":"/img/charbonnel-et-walker-480.jpg?v=96997dd1","width":1024,"height":768,"alt":"Products by Charbonnel et Walker","caption":"","credit":"Photo by Gryffindor, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons","credit_url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charbonnel_et_Walker_2514.JPG","thumb_width":480},"also_in":[{"name":"Classic British Shops","href":"/classic-british-shops/charbonnel-et-walker/"}],"maps_q":"Charbonnel et Walker, 1 Royal Arcade, 28 Old Bond Street, W1S 4BT, London","in_area":{"slug":"mayfair","name":"Mayfair"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"E.B. 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It began in Camden in 2010 and this is the Soho room.\n\nThe flavours are the other half of it - tonka bean, burnt butter caramel, coffee and olive oil, ceremonial matcha, strawberry shiso - and the sundaes go further: br\u00fbl\u00e9ed banoffee pie, matcha tiramisu, a marshmallow waffle cup. Vegan flavours and toppings are marked on the board.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Chin Chin, 54 Greek Street, W1D 3DS, London","in_area":{"slug":"soho","name":"Soho"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Milroy's","s":"milroys","c":"cocktails","cn":"Cocktails","m":54},{"n":"Noble Rot Soho","s":"noble-rot-soho","c":"wine","cn":"Wine","m":59},{"n":"Milk Beach Soho","s":"milk-beach-soho","c":"breakfast","cn":"Breakfast & Brunch","m":66}],"near_same":[{"s":"cafe-de-nata","m":139},{"s":"kova-patisserie","m":201},{"s":"snowflake-luxury-gelato","m":203},{"s":"venchi-wardour-street","m":238},{"s":"creme","m":304},{"s":"kova-patisserie-chinatown","m":315}]},{"slug":"crosstown","name":"Crosstown","area":"Spitalfields","address":"157 Brick Lane, E1 6SB","station":"Shoreditch High Street","walk":3,"lat":51.52445,"lng":-0.071814,"hours":[[8.0,22.0],[8.0,22.0],[8.0,22.0],[8.0,22.0],[8.0,22.0],[8.0,22.0],[8.0,22.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Su 08:00-22:00","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://www.crosstown.co.uk/location/brick-lane/","hours_short":null,"hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":"2026-09-10","website":"https://www.crosstown.co.uk/","instagram":"crosstown","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"way/271641406","types":["doughnuts","gelato","late","sitdown"],"verdict":"Sourdough doughnuts, wedged between the two beigel shops at the top of Brick Lane.","note":"Crosstown proves its doughnut dough like bread - a sourdough starter, a long slow rise - which makes it chewier and less sweet than the American kind, and then fills it with things like creme brulee, matcha, or raspberry and chocolate. There is gelato and coffee at the same counter.\n\nThe Brick Lane shop sits between Beigel Bake and Beigel Shop, which is either very good planning or very bad, and is open from eight in the morning until ten at night every day of the week.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Crosstown, 157 Brick Lane, E1 6SB, London","in_area":{"slug":"spitalfields-brick-lane","name":"Spitalfields & Brick Lane"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Brick Lane Market","s":"brick-lane-market","c":"food-markets","cn":"Food Markets","m":26},{"n":"Kahaila","s":"kahaila-spitalfields","c":"coffee","cn":"Coffee","m":70},{"n":"Rich Mix","s":"rich-mix","c":"venues","cn":"Performance venues","m":91}],"near_same":[{"s":"dark-sugars-chocolates","m":56},{"s":"lily-vanilli","m":568},{"s":"darlish-spitalfields","m":791},{"s":"longboys-liverpool-street","m":1065},{"s":"crosstown-cannon-street","m":1863},{"s":"violet-cakes","m":2398}]},{"slug":"crosstown-cannon-street","name":"Crosstown Cannon Street","area":"Bank","address":"115 Cannon Street, EC4N 5AW","station":"Cannon Street","walk":1,"lat":51.511565,"lng":-0.08904,"hours":[[7.0,19.0],[7.0,19.0],[7.0,19.0],[7.0,19.0],[7.0,19.0],[9.0,17.0],[9.0,17.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Fr 07:00-19:00; Sa-Su 09:00-17:00","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://www.crosstown.co.uk/location/cannon-street/","hours_short":null,"hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":"2026-09-10","website":"https://www.crosstown.co.uk/","instagram":"crosstown","maps_name":null,"attrs":["stepfree"],"osm":"way/523485332","types":["doughnuts","gelato"],"verdict":"Sourdough doughnuts opposite Cannon Street station.","note":"Crosstown proves its dough like bread, with a sourdough starter and a long slow rise, which leaves the doughnut chewier and less sweet than the American kind before anything goes into it - creme brulee, matcha, raspberry and chocolate. Small-batch ice cream and coffee at the same counter. In the middle of the City between Monument, Bank and Mansion House, so it keeps office hours in the week and shorter ones at the weekend.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Crosstown Cannon Street, 115 Cannon Street, EC4N 5AW, London","in_area":{"slug":"the-city","name":"The City"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"London Stone","s":"london-stone","c":"monuments","cn":"Monuments & Ruins","m":29},{"n":"Rosslyn Coffee","s":"rosslyn-cannon-street","c":"coffee","cn":"Coffee","m":127},{"n":"St Stephen Walbrook","s":"st-stephen-walbrook","c":"sacred","cn":"Sacred London","m":129}],"near_same":[{"s":"longboys","m":691},{"s":"longboys-liverpool-street","m":798},{"s":"darlish-spitalfields","m":1072},{"s":"badiani-elephant-and-castle","m":1630},{"s":"konditor","m":1697},{"s":"dark-sugars-chocolates","m":1829}]},{"slug":"crosstown-fitzrovia","name":"Crosstown Fitzrovia","area":"Soho","address":"13 Newman Street, W1T 1PB","station":"Tottenham Court Road","walk":3,"lat":51.51696,"lng":-0.135092,"hours":[[8.0,19.0],[8.0,19.0],[8.0,19.0],[8.0,19.0],[8.0,19.0],[8.0,19.0],[8.0,19.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Su 08:00-19:00","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://www.crosstown.co.uk/location/fitzrovia/","hours_short":null,"hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":"2026-09-10","website":"https://www.crosstown.co.uk/","instagram":"crosstown","maps_name":null,"attrs":["stepfree"],"osm":"node/9073463350","types":["doughnuts","gelato"],"verdict":"Sourdough doughnuts in Rathbone Square, a minute off Oxford Street.","note":"Crosstown proves its dough like bread, with a sourdough starter and a long slow rise, which leaves the doughnut chewier and less sweet than the American kind before anything goes into it - creme brulee, matcha, raspberry and chocolate. Small-batch ice cream and coffee at the same counter. Open eight to seven every day, which makes it the one for a weekend as well as a weekday.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Crosstown Fitzrovia, 13 Newman Street, W1T 1PB, London","in_area":{"slug":"fitzrovia","name":"Fitzrovia"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"The Punch Room","s":"the-punch-room","c":"cocktails","cn":"Cocktails","m":69},{"n":"100 Club","s":"100-club","c":"venues","cn":"Performance venues","m":96},{"n":"The Wheatsheaf","s":"the-wheatsheaf","c":"literary","cn":"Literary London","m":114}],"near_same":[{"s":"italian-bear-chocolate","m":104},{"s":"creme","m":234},{"s":"kova-patisserie","m":306},{"s":"venchi-wardour-street","m":318},{"s":"snowflake-luxury-gelato","m":370},{"s":"chin-chin","m":397}]},{"slug":"creme","name":"Cr\u00e8me","area":"Soho","address":"4 D'Arblay Street, W1F 8DJ","station":"Tottenham Court Road","walk":3,"lat":51.514864,"lng":-0.135513,"hours":[[10.0,21.0],[10.0,21.0],[10.0,21.0],[10.0,21.0],[10.0,22.0],[10.0,22.0],[10.0,21.0]],"hours_raw":"Su-Th 10:00-21:00; Fr-Sa 10:00-22:00","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://cremelondon.com/","hours_short":null,"hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":"2026-09-10","website":"https://cremelondon.com/","instagram":"cremelondon","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/7787387485","types":["doughnuts","late","sitdown"],"verdict":"Cookies baked to order and handed over still soft in the middle.","note":"Everything is baked, blended and brewed on the premises through the day, so the cookies come out warm rather than being reheated: brown butter, pistachio, a Biscoff one, and a rotating specials board. There is soft-serve to put on top of them and coffee to go with.\n\nD'Arblay Street is the quiet cut between Wardour Street and Berwick Street market. Open until nine every night, ten on Friday and Saturday.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Cr\u00e8me, 4 D'Arblay Street, W1F 8DJ, London","in_area":{"slug":"soho","name":"Soho"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"The Breakfast Club","s":"the-breakfast-club","c":"breakfast","cn":"Breakfast & Brunch","m":21},{"n":"Scarlett Green","s":"scarlett-green","c":"breakfast","cn":"Breakfast & Brunch","m":46},{"n":"House of MinaLima","s":"house-of-minalima","c":"harry-potter","cn":"Harry Potter","m":65}],"near_same":[{"s":"venchi-wardour-street","m":103},{"s":"kova-patisserie","m":117},{"s":"snowflake-luxury-gelato","m":167},{"s":"italian-bear-chocolate-soho","m":195},{"s":"crosstown-fitzrovia","m":234},{"s":"venchi-great-marlborough-street","m":285}]},{"slug":"damson-chocolate","name":"Damson Chocolate","area":"Pentonville","address":"2a Chapel Market, N1 9EZ","station":"Angel","walk":5,"lat":51.533469,"lng":-0.111001,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":null,"hours_short":"The shop does not publish its opening hours.","hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":null,"website":"https://damsonchocolate.com/","instagram":"damsonchocolate","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"way/390073114","types":["chocolate"],"verdict":"A bean-to-bar maker on Chapel Market, roasting and grinding in the shop.","note":"Damson buys cocoa beans direct and does everything after that in the building: roasting, cracking, winnowing, grinding for days, tempering, wrapping. Most London chocolatiers buy couverture already made and work from there, which makes this unusual. Bars by origin, plus bonbons and hot chocolate, on the street market behind Angel.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Damson Chocolate, 2a Chapel Market, N1 9EZ, London","bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Claremont Square","s":"claremont-square","c":"harry-potter","cn":"Harry Potter","m":252},{"n":"Duncan Terrace","s":"duncan-terrace","c":"beautiful-streets","cn":"Beautiful Streets","m":497},{"n":"Trampoline","s":"trampoline","c":"coffee","cn":"Coffee","m":523}],"near_same":[{"s":"badiani-angel","m":542},{"s":"ruby-violet","m":894},{"s":"mille-patisserie-russell-square","m":1369},{"s":"darlish-bloomsbury","m":1907},{"s":"italian-bear-chocolate","m":2380},{"s":"mamasons-dirty-ice-cream","m":2411}]},{"slug":"dark-sugars-chocolates","name":"Dark Sugars Chocolates","area":"Spitalfields & Brick Lane","address":"141 Brick Lane, E1 6SB","station":"Shoreditch High Street","walk":3,"lat":51.523951,"lng":-0.071637,"hours":[[10.0,20.0],[10.0,20.0],[10.0,20.0],[10.0,20.0],[10.0,20.0],[10.0,20.0],[10.0,20.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Su 10:00-20:00","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://www.darksugars.co.uk/pages/contact","hours_short":null,"hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":"2026-09-08","website":"https://www.darksugars.co.uk/pages/contact","instagram":"darksugars","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"way/271645793","types":["chocolate"],"verdict":"Ghanaian cocoa, and a hot chocolate with a hedge of chocolate shavings on top.","note":"Nyanga spent three years on her family's cocoa farm in Ghana before opening this, and the shop smells of roasting beans from the door. The counter runs from little coloured pearls to slabs, by way of pistachio, vodka and orange, and there is usually a tray of mango turning in dark chocolate.\n\nThe hot chocolate is what the queue is for. It is built as a swirl of milk and chocolate, then buried under a heap of shavings that stand up out of the cup and melt into it as you go: Pitch Black is the thick one, and there are hazelnut praline, white saffron and pink champagne beside it. African and Latin American music, and staff who make a performance of pouring it.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Dark Sugars Chocolates, 141 Brick Lane, E1 6SB, London","in_area":{"slug":"spitalfields-brick-lane","name":"Spitalfields & Brick Lane"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Kahaila","s":"kahaila-spitalfields","c":"coffee","cn":"Coffee","m":14},{"n":"Brick Lane Market","s":"brick-lane-market","c":"food-markets","cn":"Food Markets","m":36},{"n":"Beigel Bake","s":"beigel-bake","c":"bakeries","cn":"Bakeries","m":62}],"near_same":[{"s":"crosstown","m":56},{"s":"lily-vanilli","m":619},{"s":"darlish-spitalfields","m":757},{"s":"longboys-liverpool-street","m":1031},{"s":"crosstown-cannon-street","m":1829},{"s":"longboys","m":2436}]},{"slug":"dark-sugars-cocoa-house","name":"Dark Sugars Cocoa House","area":"Greenwich","address":"9 Nelson Road, SE10 9JB","station":"Cutty Sark for Maritime Greenwich","walk":2,"lat":51.480975,"lng":-0.008995,"hours":[[10.0,22.0],[10.0,22.0],[10.0,22.0],[10.0,22.0],[10.0,22.0],[10.0,22.0],[10.0,22.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Su 10:00-22:00","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://www.darksugars.co.uk/pages/contact","hours_short":null,"hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":"2026-09-08","website":"https://www.darksugars.co.uk/pages/contact","instagram":"darksugars","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/13158352601","types":["chocolate","late","sitdown"],"verdict":"Four storeys of chocolate by Greenwich Market, open until ten.","note":"The flagship, and the one with room to sit: four floors on Nelson Road, a minute from Greenwich Market, where the Brick Lane shop is a counter you stand at. Same Ghanaian cocoa, same hand-made chocolates from pearls to slabs.\n\nAnd the same hot chocolate, which is the reason to climb the stairs with one - a swirl of milk and chocolate under a pile of shavings that keep melting into it. Pitch Black is the thickest; hazelnut praline, white saffron and pink champagne are the others. Open until ten, which in Greenwich is late.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Dark Sugars Cocoa House, 9 Nelson Road, SE10 9JB, London","in_area":{"slug":"greenwich","name":"Greenwich"},"bank":0,"near_all":[{"n":"Greenwich Market","s":"greenwich-market","c":"food-markets","cn":"Food Markets","m":67},{"n":"St Alfege Church","s":"st-alfege-church","c":"sacred","cn":"Sacred London","m":72},{"n":"Up the Creek","s":"up-the-creek","c":"venues","cn":"Performance venues","m":184}],"near_same":[{"s":"dark-sugars-ice-creams","m":37},{"s":"badiani-wood-wharf","m":2372},{"s":"badiani-canary-wharf","m":2709},{"s":"badiani-cabot-square","m":2835},{"s":"longboys","m":6458},{"s":"badiani-elephant-and-castle","m":6465}]},{"slug":"dark-sugars-ice-creams","name":"Dark Sugars Ice Creams","area":"Greenwich","address":"21 Nelson Road, SE10 9JB","station":"Cutty Sark for Maritime Greenwich","walk":2,"lat":51.480929,"lng":-0.008452,"hours":[[10.0,22.0],[10.0,22.0],[10.0,22.0],[10.0,22.0],[10.0,22.0],[10.0,22.0],[10.0,22.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Su 10:00-22:00","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://www.darksugars.co.uk/pages/contact","hours_short":null,"hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":"2026-09-08","website":"https://www.darksugars.co.uk/pages/contact","instagram":"darksugars","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/10266440535","types":["gelato","late"],"verdict":"The ice cream made from the chocolate they grind twelve doors along.","note":"The third of the Nelson Road shops and the one given over to ice cream, made with the same Ghanaian cocoa that goes into the chocolates. Cones and tubs rather than a sit-down room, and it keeps the Cocoa House's hours, so it is still going at ten on a summer evening when most of Greenwich has shut.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Dark Sugars Ice Creams, 21 Nelson Road, SE10 9JB, London","in_area":{"slug":"greenwich","name":"Greenwich"},"bank":0,"near_all":[{"n":"Greenwich Market","s":"greenwich-market","c":"food-markets","cn":"Food Markets","m":83},{"n":"St Alfege Church","s":"st-alfege-church","c":"sacred","cn":"Sacred London","m":99},{"n":"Fan Museum","s":"fan-museum","c":"museums","cn":"Museums","m":205}],"near_same":[{"s":"dark-sugars-cocoa-house","m":37},{"s":"badiani-wood-wharf","m":2383},{"s":"badiani-canary-wharf","m":2720},{"s":"badiani-cabot-square","m":2846},{"s":"longboys","m":6494},{"s":"badiani-elephant-and-castle","m":6502}]},{"slug":"darlish-bloomsbury","name":"Darlish Bloomsbury","area":"Bloomsbury","address":"25 Bury Place, WC1A 2JH","station":"Holborn","walk":5,"lat":51.518584,"lng":-0.124716,"hours":[[12.0,17.5],[12.0,17.5],[12.0,17.5],[12.0,17.5],[12.0,17.5],[12.0,17.5],[12.0,17.5]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Su 12:00-17:30","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://darlish.com/pages/darlish-bloomsbury-british-museum","hours_short":null,"hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":"2026-09-11","website":"https://darlish.com/pages/darlish-bloomsbury-british-museum","instagram":"darlishicecream","maps_name":null,"attrs":["stepfree"],"osm":null,"types":["gelato","sitdown","vegan"],"verdict":"Persian ice cream - saffron, rose and pistachio - two minutes from the British Museum.","note":"Persian ice cream, built on the flavours the founder Laura Dawson grew up with. Saffron, rose and pistachio is the one to start with - Iranian saffron, rose water distilled from Damascena roses, Iranian pistachios chopped through it. Turkish coffee blends Kurukahveci Mehmet Efendi with Italian espresso; chocolate and halva crumbles Arabic sesame halva over a base made with 70 per cent Callebaut. The signature is the Baklava Ice Cream Sandwich, a scoop pressed between two pieces of honey-soaked baklava, which Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveller called one of London's best desserts of 2020. A full vegan list runs alongside the dairy one.\n\nBury Place is the short street of bookshops running down from the museum's gates to Bloomsbury Way, and the parlour is halfway along it with seating inside and a step-free door.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Darlish Bloomsbury, 25 Bury Place, WC1A 2JH, London","in_area":{"slug":"bloomsbury","name":"Bloomsbury"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Present & Correct","s":"present-correct","c":"classic-british-shops","cn":"Classic British Shops","m":39},{"n":"St George's Bloomsbury","s":"st-georges-bloomsbury","c":"sacred","cn":"Sacred London","m":97},{"n":"Museum of Comedy","s":"museum-of-comedy","c":"museums","cn":"Museums","m":114}],"near_same":[{"s":"badiani-covent-garden","m":600},{"s":"mille-patisserie-russell-square","m":621},{"s":"venchi-long-acre","m":637},{"s":"chin-chin","m":651},{"s":"italian-bear-chocolate","m":681},{"s":"crosstown-fitzrovia","m":740}]},{"slug":"darlish-notting-hill","name":"Darlish Notting Hill","area":"Notting Hill & Holland Park","address":"305 Westbourne Park Road, W11 1EF","station":"Ladbroke Grove","walk":5,"lat":51.5167,"lng":-0.20542,"hours":[[10.0,23.0],[10.0,23.0],[10.0,23.0],[10.0,23.0],[10.0,24.0],[10.0,24.0],[10.0,23.0]],"hours_raw":"Su-Th 10:00-23:00; Fr-Sa 10:00-24:00","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://darlish.com/pages/darlish-notting-hill","hours_short":null,"hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":"2026-09-11","website":"https://darlish.com/pages/darlish-notting-hill","instagram":"darlishicecream","maps_name":null,"attrs":["stepfree"],"osm":null,"types":["gelato","late","sitdown","vegan"],"verdict":"Persian ice cream on the Portobello Road corner, opposite the blue door.","note":"Persian ice cream, built on the flavours the founder Laura Dawson grew up with. Saffron, rose and pistachio is the one to start with - Iranian saffron, rose water distilled from Damascena roses, Iranian pistachios chopped through it. Turkish coffee blends Kurukahveci Mehmet Efendi with Italian espresso; chocolate and halva crumbles Arabic sesame halva over a base made with 70 per cent Callebaut. The signature is the Baklava Ice Cream Sandwich, a scoop pressed between two pieces of honey-soaked baklava, which Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveller called one of London's best desserts of 2020. A full vegan list runs alongside the dairy one.\n\nIt stands where Westbourne Park Road meets Portobello Road, across the street from the blue front door used in the film. The antiques stalls are the Saturday market; the general one runs most other days.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Darlish Notting Hill, 305 Westbourne Park Road, W11 1EF, London","in_area":{"slug":"notting-hill-holland-park","name":"Notting Hill & Holland Park"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Portobello Road Market","s":"portobello-road-market","c":"food-markets","cn":"Food Markets","m":71},{"n":"The Distillery","s":"the-distillery","c":"cocktails","cn":"Cocktails","m":84},{"n":"Claudia Jones","s":"claudia-jones","c":"world","cn":"The World in London","m":170}],"near_same":[{"s":"knoops-notting-hill","m":83},{"s":"melt-chocolates","m":514},{"s":"lisboa-patisserie","m":646},{"s":"badiani-notting-hill","m":1082},{"s":"le-choux","m":1183},{"s":"badiani-white-city","m":1378}]},{"slug":"darlish-spitalfields","name":"Darlish Spitalfields","area":"Spitalfields & Brick Lane","address":"4 Brushfield Street, E1 6AN","station":"London Liverpool Street","walk":2,"lat":51.518857,"lng":-0.078896,"hours":[[12.0,22.0],[12.0,22.0],[12.0,22.0],[12.0,22.0],[12.0,23.0],[12.0,23.0],[12.0,22.0]],"hours_raw":"Su-Th 12:00-22:00; Fr-Sa 12:00-23:00","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://darlish.com/pages/spitalfields","hours_short":null,"hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":"2026-09-11","website":"https://darlish.com/pages/spitalfields","instagram":"darlishicecream","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/2592530672","types":["gelato","late","sitdown","vegan"],"verdict":"Persian ice cream and baklava sandwiches, facing Old Spitalfields Market.","note":"Persian ice cream, built on the flavours the founder Laura Dawson grew up with. Saffron, rose and pistachio is the one to start with - Iranian saffron, rose water distilled from Damascena roses, Iranian pistachios chopped through it. Turkish coffee blends Kurukahveci Mehmet Efendi with Italian espresso; chocolate and halva crumbles Arabic sesame halva over a base made with 70 per cent Callebaut. The signature is the Baklava Ice Cream Sandwich, a scoop pressed between two pieces of honey-soaked baklava, which Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveller called one of London's best desserts of 2020. A full vegan list runs alongside the dairy one.\n\nThis one looks across Brushfield Street at Old Spitalfields Market, with Hawksmoor's Christ Church closing the view at the end of it, and there is a good deal of seating inside.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Darlish Spitalfields, 4 Brushfield Street, E1 6AN, London","in_area":{"slug":"the-city","name":"The City"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Bishopsgate Institute","s":"bishopsgate-institute","c":"literary","cn":"Literary London","m":32},{"n":"Store Street Espresso","s":"store-street-espresso-broadgate","c":"coffee","cn":"Coffee","m":46},{"n":"Eataly","s":"eataly","c":"food-markets","cn":"Food Markets","m":85}],"near_same":[{"s":"longboys-liverpool-street","m":275},{"s":"dark-sugars-chocolates","m":757},{"s":"crosstown","m":791},{"s":"crosstown-cannon-street","m":1072},{"s":"lily-vanilli","m":1333},{"s":"longboys","m":1696}]},{"slug":"gelupo","name":"Gelupo","area":"Soho","address":"7 Archer Street, W1D 7AU","station":"Piccadilly Circus","walk":3,"lat":51.511586,"lng":-0.1337,"hours":[[12.0,23.0],[12.0,23.0],[12.0,23.0],[12.0,23.0],[12.0,24.0],[12.0,24.0],[12.0,23.0]],"hours_raw":"Su-Th 12:00-23:00; Fr-Sa 12:00-24:00","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://gelupo.com/","hours_short":null,"hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":"2026-09-10","website":"https://gelupo.com/","instagram":"gelupolondon","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/4365097290","types":["gelato","late","sitdown"],"verdict":"Jacob Kenedy's gelateria, across the alley from his own restaurant, and the reason people cross Soho after dinner.","note":"Gelupo faces Bocca di Lupo across Archer Street. The gelato is churned on the premises and the board changes: mascarpone with burnt lemon, ricotta and amarena cherry, nocciola made with Piedmont hazelnuts, and a dark chocolate sorbet that has a following of its own.\n\nA different granita is made each month, sold only in the shop and served with whipped cream. A few stools at the counter, and a deli case of Italian things to take away.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Gelupo, 7 Archer Street, W1D 7AU, London","in_area":{"slug":"soho","name":"Soho"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"The Crystal Maze LIVE Experience","s":"the-crystal-maze-live-experience","c":"whats-on","cn":"What\u2019s On","m":74},{"n":"Jolene Bridle Lane","s":"jolene-bridle-lane","c":"breakfast","cn":"Breakfast & Brunch","m":158},{"n":"Crazy Coqs","s":"crazy-coqs","c":"venues","cn":"Performance venues","m":168}],"near_same":[{"s":"cafe-de-nata","m":235},{"s":"snowflake-luxury-gelato","m":236},{"s":"italian-bear-chocolate-soho","m":280},{"s":"venchi-wardour-street","m":288},{"s":"kova-patisserie","m":299},{"s":"kova-patisserie-chinatown","m":333}]},{"slug":"italian-bear-chocolate","name":"Italian Bear Chocolate","area":"East Marylebone","address":"29 Rathbone Place, W1T 1JG","station":"Goodge Street","walk":4,"lat":51.517825,"lng":-0.134485,"hours":[[9.0,23.0],[9.0,23.0],[9.0,23.0],[9.0,23.0],[9.0,23.0],[9.0,23.0],[9.0,22.5]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Sa 09:00-23:00; Su 09:00-22:30","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://www.italianbearchocolate.com/pages/contact","hours_short":null,"hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":"2026-09-10","website":"https://www.italianbearchocolate.com/","instagram":"italianbearchocolate","maps_name":null,"attrs":["stepfree"],"osm":"node/6089552095","types":["chocolate","late","sitdown"],"verdict":"Italian drinking chocolate thick enough to stand a spoon in, on Rathbone Place.","note":"Cioccolata calda is less a drink than a warm pudding: cocoa cooked until it coats the cup, and served small because a big one would beat you. The Fitzrovia shop, a few steps off Oxford Street, does them plain and flavoured and stays open to eleven. Laptops are not allowed after half past three.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Italian Bear Chocolate, 29 Rathbone Place, W1T 1JG, London","in_area":{"slug":"fitzrovia","name":"Fitzrovia"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"The Wheatsheaf","s":"the-wheatsheaf","c":"literary","cn":"Literary London","m":32},{"n":"The Fitzroy Tavern","s":"the-fitzroy-tavern","c":"literary","cn":"Literary London","m":92},{"n":"The Punch Room","s":"the-punch-room","c":"cocktails","cn":"Cocktails","m":159}],"near_same":[{"s":"crosstown-fitzrovia","m":104},{"s":"creme","m":336},{"s":"kova-patisserie","m":396},{"s":"venchi-wardour-street","m":412},{"s":"xo-chocolate","m":415},{"s":"chin-chin","m":450}]},{"slug":"italian-bear-chocolate-soho","name":"Italian Bear Chocolate Soho","area":"Soho","address":"41 Broadwick Street, W1F 9QL","station":"Tottenham Court Road","walk":5,"lat":51.513273,"lng":-0.136715,"hours":[[9.0,23.0],[9.0,23.0],[9.0,23.0],[9.0,23.0],[9.0,23.0],[9.0,23.0],[9.0,22.5]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Sa 09:00-23:00; Su 09:00-22:30","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://www.italianbearchocolate.com/pages/contact","hours_short":null,"hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":"2026-09-10","website":"https://www.italianbearchocolate.com/","instagram":"italianbearchocolate","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/5536112071","types":["chocolate","late","sitdown"],"verdict":"Thick Italian drinking chocolate on Broadwick Street.","note":"Cioccolata calda cooked until it is closer to a warm pudding than a drink, in a cup you finish rather than nurse, plain or flavoured. On Broadwick Street at the Carnaby end, open to eleven. Laptops are not allowed after half past three.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Italian Bear Chocolate Soho, 41 Broadwick Street, W1F 9QL, London","in_area":{"slug":"soho","name":"Soho"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Joseph Haydn","s":"joseph-haydn","c":"world","cn":"The World in London","m":75},{"n":"Canaletto in Beak Street","s":"canaletto-in-beak-street","c":"art","cn":"Art","m":107},{"n":"Carnaby Street","s":"carnaby-street","c":"shopping","cn":"Shopping","m":136}],"near_same":[{"s":"venchi-wardour-street","m":171},{"s":"venchi-great-marlborough-street","m":190},{"s":"creme","m":195},{"s":"snowflake-luxury-gelato","m":196},{"s":"kova-patisserie","m":211},{"s":"gelupo","m":280}]},{"slug":"knoops-chelsea","name":"Knoops Chelsea","area":"Chelsea","address":"69 King's Road","station":"Sloane Square","walk":8,"lat":51.489353,"lng":-0.163825,"hours":[[7.5,21.5],[7.5,21.5],[7.5,21.5],[7.5,21.5],[7.5,22.5],[8.5,22.5],[8.5,22.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Th 07:30-21:30; Fr 07:30-22:30; Sa 08:30-22:30; Su 08:30-22:00","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://knoops.co.uk/pages/store-locations/chelsea","hours_short":null,"hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":"2026-09-10","website":"https://knoops.co.uk/","instagram":"knoopschocolate","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/7292418789","types":["chocolate","late","sitdown"],"verdict":"Hot chocolate ordered by cocoa percentage, on the King's Road.","note":"Jens Knoop opened the first of these in Rye and built the whole thing on one idea: you pick the chocolate by percentage. The menu runs from a 28 per cent white through the milks into dark at 70, 80 and on to a 100 per cent with nothing added at all, and whichever you choose is melted to order into the milk you ask for. This one has the Pod, a seating area downstairs, and opens from half past seven in the morning.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Knoops Chelsea, 69 King's Road, London","in_area":{"slug":"chelsea","name":"Chelsea"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Bywater Street: George Smiley's house","s":"bywater-street-george-smileys-house","c":"secrets","cn":"Secrets & Espionage","m":74},{"n":"Mark Twain","s":"mark-twain","c":"world","cn":"The World in London","m":266},{"n":"John Sandoe Books","s":"john-sandoe-books","c":"literary","cn":"Literary London","m":301}],"near_same":[{"s":"venchi-kings-road","m":35},{"s":"maitre-choux-kings-road","m":60},{"s":"lartisan-du-chocolat","m":536},{"s":"venchi-exhibition-road","m":924},{"s":"maitre-choux","m":963},{"s":"rococo-chocolates-kings-road","m":976}]},{"slug":"knoops-covent-garden","name":"Knoops Covent Garden","area":"Covent Garden","address":"2a New Row, WC2N 4LH","station":"Leicester Square","walk":2,"lat":51.511007,"lng":-0.126639,"hours":[[8.0,22.5],[8.0,22.5],[8.0,22.5],[8.0,22.5],[8.0,22.5],[9.0,23.0],[8.0,22.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Fr 08:00-22:30; Sa 09:00-23:00; Su 08:00-22:00","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://knoops.co.uk/pages/store-locations/covent-garden","hours_short":null,"hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":"2026-09-10","website":"https://knoops.co.uk/","instagram":"knoopschocolate","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/821344556","types":["chocolate","late","sitdown"],"verdict":"Hot chocolate ordered by cocoa percentage, on the lane behind the Coliseum.","note":"Jens Knoop opened the first of these in Rye and built the whole thing on one idea: you pick the chocolate by percentage. The menu runs from a 28 per cent white through the milks into dark at 70, 80 and on to a 100 per cent with nothing added at all, and whichever you choose is melted to order into the milk you ask for. New Row is the pedestrian cut between St Martin's Lane and Garrick Street, which makes this the one to know before a show. There is a seating area downstairs.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Knoops Covent Garden, 2a New Row, WC2N 4LH, London","in_area":{"slug":"covent-garden","name":"Covent Garden"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Kiss the Hippo","s":"kiss-the-hippo-covent-garden","c":"coffee","cn":"Coffee","m":15},{"n":"Blue Note London","s":"blue-note-london","c":"venues","cn":"Performance venues","m":65},{"n":"Sotheran's","s":"sotherans","c":"classic-british-shops","cn":"Classic British Shops","m":65}],"near_same":[{"s":"la-gelatiera","m":13},{"s":"wa-cafe","m":21},{"s":"kova-patisserie-chinatown","m":184},{"s":"badiani-covent-garden","m":253},{"s":"venchi-long-acre","m":256},{"s":"cafe-de-nata","m":395}]},{"slug":"knoops-kensington","name":"Knoops Kensington","area":"Kensington","address":"80 Kensington High Street","station":"High Street Kensington","walk":2,"lat":51.501934,"lng":-0.191453,"hours":[[6.5,23.0],[6.5,23.0],[6.5,23.0],[6.5,23.0],[6.5,23.5],[6.5,23.5],[6.5,23.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Th 06:30-23:00; Fr-Sa 06:30-23:30; Su 06:30-23:00","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://knoops.co.uk/pages/store-locations/kensington","hours_short":null,"hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":"2026-09-10","website":"https://knoops.co.uk/","instagram":"knoopschocolate","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/7525380685","types":["chocolate","late","sitdown"],"verdict":"Hot chocolate ordered by cocoa percentage, open from half past six in the morning.","note":"Jens Knoop opened the first of these in Rye and built the whole thing on one idea: you pick the chocolate by percentage. The menu runs from a 28 per cent white through the milks into dark at 70, 80 and on to a 100 per cent with nothing added at all, and whichever you choose is melted to order into the milk you ask for. Kensington High Street, a few minutes from Kensington Palace and the top of Hyde Park, and the earliest and latest of the London shops by some way.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Knoops Kensington, 80 Kensington High Street, London","in_area":{"slug":"notting-hill-holland-park","name":"Notting Hill & Holland Park"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Ezra Pound","s":"ezra-pound","c":"world","cn":"The World in London","m":118},{"n":"Aux Merveilleux de Fred Kensington","s":"aux-merveilleux-de-fred-kensington","c":"bakeries","cn":"Bakeries","m":149},{"n":"T. S. 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The menu runs from a 28 per cent white through the milks into dark at 70, 80 and on to a 100 per cent with nothing added at all, and whichever you choose is melted to order into the milk you ask for. Cold whips and ice cream in summer. The shop is among the antique arcades at the Notting Hill end of the market.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Knoops Notting Hill, 199 Portobello Road, W11 1LU, London","in_area":{"slug":"notting-hill-holland-park","name":"Notting Hill & Holland Park"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Portobello Road Market","s":"portobello-road-market","c":"food-markets","cn":"Food Markets","m":13},{"n":"The Distillery","s":"the-distillery","c":"cocktails","cn":"Cocktails","m":26},{"n":"Fabrique Bakery","s":"fabrique-bakery","c":"bakeries","cn":"Bakeries","m":80}],"near_same":[{"s":"darlish-notting-hill","m":83},{"s":"melt-chocolates","m":458},{"s":"lisboa-patisserie","m":729},{"s":"badiani-notting-hill","m":1011},{"s":"le-choux","m":1261},{"s":"badiani-white-city","m":1349}]},{"slug":"konditor","name":"Konditor","area":"Waterloo","address":"22 Cornwall Road, SE1 8TW","station":"Waterloo East","walk":2,"lat":51.504162,"lng":-0.110284,"hours":[[7.5,19.0],[7.5,19.0],[7.5,19.0],[7.5,19.0],[7.5,19.0],[8.0,18.0],[10.0,17.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Fr 07:30-19:00; Sa 08:00-18:00; Su 10:00-17:00","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://konditor.co.uk/pages/our-stores","hours_short":null,"hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":"2026-09-10","website":"https://konditor.co.uk/","instagram":"konditorcakes","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"way/940728861","types":["cakes","sitdown"],"verdict":"The Waterloo shop where Gerhard Jenne started in 1993, and still where the Curd Pie comes from.","note":"A Konditor is a pastry chef in German, and Gerhard Jenne trained as one in Munich after an apprenticeship as a baker, came to London to work for the grocer Justin de Blank, and opened his own place on Cornwall Road in 1993. It is a back street behind Waterloo and the shop is small, which is part of why it worked.\n\nThe things to know are the Curd Pie, a lemon cheesecake on a shortcrust base, the whisky-soaked Boozy Chocolate cake, and the Magic Cakes - small iced squares sold loose, which people buy by the dozen and arrange into words.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Konditor, 22 Cornwall Road, SE1 8TW, London","in_area":{"slug":"waterloo","name":"Waterloo"},"bank":0,"near_all":[{"n":"Tonight Josephine","s":"tonight-josephine","c":"cocktails","cn":"Cocktails","m":151},{"n":"Roupell Street","s":"roupell-street","c":"beautiful-streets","cn":"Beautiful Streets","m":172},{"n":"Young Vic","s":"young-vic","c":"venues","cn":"Performance venues","m":227}],"near_same":[{"s":"badiani-elephant-and-castle","m":1051},{"s":"longboys","m":1283},{"s":"venchi-long-acre","m":1376},{"s":"wa-cafe","m":1381},{"s":"knoops-covent-garden","m":1399},{"s":"la-gelatiera","m":1412}]},{"slug":"kova-patisserie","name":"Kova Patisserie","area":"Soho","address":"9-12 St Anne's Court, W1F 0BB","station":"Tottenham Court Road","walk":2,"lat":51.514268,"lng":-0.134111,"hours":[null,null,[12.0,21.0],[12.0,22.0],[12.0,22.5],[12.0,22.5],[12.0,21.0]],"hours_raw":"We 12:00-21:00; Th 12:00-22:00; Fr-Sa 12:00-22:30; Su 12:00-21:00","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://www.kovapatisserie.com/our-shops/","hours_short":null,"hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":"2026-09-10","website":"https://www.kovapatisserie.com/","instagram":"kovapatisserie","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"way/275102861","types":["cakes","late","sitdown"],"verdict":"Japanese mille crepe cakes, layer by layer, down an alley between Wardour and Dean Street.","note":"A mille crepe is twenty or so paper-thin pancakes stacked with cream between them and chilled until it slices like a cake; Kova builds them in matcha, hojicha, black sesame, chocolate and yuzu, and sells them by the slice. The rest of the case runs to cheesecakes, souffle pancakes and choux.\n\nSt Anne's Court is the narrow cut-through between Wardour Street and Dean Street, and the room is small enough that there is often a wait. 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Newport Court is the pedestrian lane off Charing Cross Road at the eastern edge of Chinatown, which makes this the one to remember after a late dinner on Gerrard Street.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Kova Patisserie Chinatown, 20A Newport Court, WC2H 7JS, London","in_area":{"slug":"soho","name":"Soho"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Donutelier Charing Cross Road","s":"donutelier-charing-cross-road","c":"bakeries","cn":"Bakeries","m":48},{"n":"Agatha Christie memorial","s":"agatha-christie-memorial","c":"literary","cn":"Literary London","m":106},{"n":"Charing Cross Road","s":"charing-cross-road","c":"shopping","cn":"Shopping","m":113}],"near_same":[{"s":"la-gelatiera","m":170},{"s":"knoops-covent-garden","m":184},{"s":"wa-cafe","m":200},{"s":"cafe-de-nata","m":211},{"s":"badiani-covent-garden","m":265},{"s":"chin-chin","m":315}]},{"slug":"lartisan-du-chocolat","name":"L'Artisan du Chocolat","area":"Chelsea","address":"89 Lower Sloane Street","station":"Sloane Square","walk":3,"lat":51.489919,"lng":-0.156134,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":null,"hours_short":"The shop does not publish its opening hours.","hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":null,"website":"https://www.artisanduchocolat.com/","instagram":"artisanduchocolat","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/5306556218","types":["chocolate"],"verdict":"Salted caramels in a shell thin enough to break on the tongue.","note":"Gerard Coleman opened in 2000 and spent a decade as the chocolatier other cooks used, Gordon Ramsay and Heston Blumenthal among them, with a habit of putting things in a ganache nobody had - salted caramel well before it was everywhere, and tobacco, basil and whisky after it. The liquid salted caramels are where to start.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"L'Artisan du Chocolat, 89 Lower Sloane Street, London","in_area":{"slug":"belgravia","name":"Belgravia"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"RHS Chelsea Flower Show","s":"rhs-chelsea-flower-show","c":"whats-on","cn":"What\u2019s On","m":156},{"n":"Saatchi Gallery","s":"saatchi-gallery","c":"museums","cn":"Museums","m":199},{"n":"Royal Hospital Chelsea Museum","s":"royal-hospital-chelsea-museum","c":"museums","cn":"Museums","m":285}],"near_same":[{"s":"maitre-choux-kings-road","m":485},{"s":"knoops-chelsea","m":536},{"s":"peggy-porschen","m":539},{"s":"venchi-kings-road","m":568},{"s":"pierre-herme","m":986},{"s":"rococo-chocolates-belgravia","m":1045}]},{"slug":"la-gelatiera","name":"La Gelatiera","area":"Covent Garden","address":"27 New Row, WC2N 4LA","station":"Leicester Square","walk":1,"lat":51.511099,"lng":-0.126774,"hours":[[13.0,20.5],[13.0,22.5],[13.0,22.5],[13.0,22.5],[13.0,23.5],[12.0,23.5],[12.0,22.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo 13:00-20:30; Tu-Th 13:00-22:30; Fr 13:00-23:30; Sa 12:00-23:30; Su 12:00-22:00","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://lagelatiera.co.uk/locations/covent-garden/","hours_short":null,"hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":"2026-09-10","website":"https://lagelatiera.co.uk/","instagram":"lagelatiera","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/3446766699","types":["gelato","late","vegan"],"verdict":"Gelato churned slowly enough to keep the air out, on the lane between Covent Garden and St Martin's Lane.","note":"Everything is made in-house and daily by mantecazione, the slow Italian churn that beats in far less air than an ice cream machine and leaves the result dense rather than fluffy. The milk is unhomogenised Jersey from the Estate Dairy; the bases are egg-free and gluten-free, and a good number of the sorbets are vegan.\n\nNew Row is a two-minute walk from the Coliseum and the Covent Garden theatres, and the shop stays open late enough to catch the interval crowd.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"La Gelatiera, 27 New Row, WC2N 4LA, London","in_area":{"slug":"covent-garden","name":"Covent Garden"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Kiss the Hippo","s":"kiss-the-hippo-covent-garden","c":"coffee","cn":"Coffee","m":18},{"n":"Sotheran's","s":"sotherans","c":"classic-british-shops","cn":"Classic British Shops","m":62},{"n":"Cecil Court","s":"cecil-court","c":"shopping","cn":"Shopping","m":74}],"near_same":[{"s":"knoops-covent-garden","m":13},{"s":"wa-cafe","m":31},{"s":"kova-patisserie-chinatown","m":170},{"s":"badiani-covent-garden","m":246},{"s":"venchi-long-acre","m":253},{"s":"cafe-de-nata","m":381}]},{"slug":"le-choux","name":"Le Choux","area":"North Kensington","address":"332 Ladbroke Grove, W10 5AD","station":"Kensal Green","walk":11,"lat":51.525696,"lng":-0.214559,"hours":[null,[9.0,18.5],[9.0,18.5],[9.0,18.5],[9.0,18.5],[9.5,18.5],[10.0,18.0]],"hours_raw":"Tu-Fr 09:00-18:30; Sa 09:30-18:30; Su 10:00-18:00","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://lechoux.com/pages/contact-us","hours_short":null,"hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":"2026-09-08","website":"https://lechoux.com/","instagram":"lechouxlondon","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":null,"types":["cakes"],"verdict":"A shop given over almost entirely to choux pastry, at the top of Ladbroke Grove.","note":"Choux is the awkward one - a paste cooked on the hob, dried out, then loaded with enough egg to make it rise on steam alone - and this is a whole shop built on it: buns, \u00e9clairs, profiteroles, and croquembouche-style towers made to order. The rest of the counter is patisserie proper, with tarts, brioche, cookies and a few chocolates, but the name is the menu.\n\nClosed on Mondays. 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What comes out is closer to sculpture than confectionery - the wedding and custom cakes are the business - but the counter on those two mornings has brownies, cupcakes and whatever the season has suggested.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Lily Vanilli, 6 The Courtyard, Ezra Street, E2 7RH, London","in_area":{"slug":"shoreditch-old-street","name":"Shoreditch & Old Street"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Atsuko's Kitchen","s":"atsukos-kitchen","c":"whats-on","cn":"What\u2019s On","m":22},{"n":"Pavilion Bakery","s":"pavilion-bakery","c":"bakeries","cn":"Bakeries","m":24},{"n":"Hermanos Colombian Coffee Roasters","s":"hermanos-colombian-coffee-roasters-shoreditch","c":"coffee","cn":"Coffee","m":31}],"near_same":[{"s":"crosstown","m":568},{"s":"dark-sugars-chocolates","m":619},{"s":"darlish-spitalfields","m":1333},{"s":"longboys-liverpool-street","m":1597},{"s":"violet-cakes","m":1830},{"s":"crosstown-cannon-street","m":2392}]},{"slug":"lisboa-patisserie","name":"Lisboa Patisserie","area":"North Kensington","address":"57 Golborne Road","station":"Westbourne Park","walk":6,"lat":51.522363,"lng":-0.20751,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":null,"hours_short":"The shop does not publish its opening hours.","hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":null,"website":"https://www.lisboapatisserie.com/","instagram":null,"maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/1081749585","types":["cakes","sitdown"],"verdict":"The Golborne Road counter everyone means when they say they are going for a custard tart.","note":"Golborne Road is the Portuguese and Moroccan end of Notting Hill, and this is a plain room with a long counter, formica tables and a queue out of the door at the weekend. Past\u00e9is de nata, bolo de arroz, coffee, and none of it dressed up.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Lisboa Patisserie, 57 Golborne Road, London","bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Trellick Tower","s":"trellick-tower","c":"architecture","cn":"Architecture","m":201},{"n":"Layla bakery","s":"layla-bakery","c":"bakeries","cn":"Bakeries","m":222},{"n":"W. H. 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It goes in the ice cream, in the bilog buns, and on top of the halo-halo, which is the Filipino sundae: shaved ice, evaporated milk, jellies, red bean, coconut strings, leche flan and a wafer, mixed together, which is what halo-halo means.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Mamasons Dirty Ice Cream, 91 Kentish Town Road, NW1 8NY, London","bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Mission: Breakout","s":"mission-breakout","c":"whats-on","cn":"What\u2019s On","m":162},{"n":"Old Post Office Bakery","s":"old-post-office-bakery-chalk-farm","c":"bakeries","cn":"Bakeries","m":297},{"n":"Camden Market","s":"camden-market","c":"food-markets","cn":"Food Markets","m":384}],"near_same":[{"s":"ruby-violet","m":1542},{"s":"badiani-hampstead-heath","m":2177},{"s":"damson-chocolate","m":2411},{"s":"mille-patisserie-russell-square","m":2482},{"s":"pierre-marcolini","m":2620},{"s":"rococo-chocolates","m":2732}]},{"slug":"maitre-choux","name":"Ma\u00eetre Choux","area":"Brompton","address":"15 Harrington Road, SW7 3ES","station":"South Kensington","walk":2,"lat":51.49399,"lng":-0.175581,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":null,"hours_short":"The shop does not publish its opening hours.","hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":null,"website":"https://www.maitrechoux.com/","instagram":"maitrechoux","maps_name":null,"attrs":["stepfree"],"osm":"node/4346671889","types":["cakes"],"verdict":"A patisserie that makes nothing but choux pastry.","note":"Joakim Prat cooked in three-Michelin-star kitchens and then narrowed his whole output to one family of pastry: eclairs, choux buns, religieuses and the ring-shaped Paris-Brest, glazed in flat colours that look like enamel and finished on the day they are sold. 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Joakim Prat came out of three-Michelin-star kitchens to open it.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Ma\u00eetre Choux King's Road, 57,59 King\u2019s Road, London","in_area":{"slug":"chelsea","name":"Chelsea"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Bywater Street: George Smiley's house","s":"bywater-street-george-smileys-house","c":"secrets","cn":"Secrets & Espionage","m":59},{"n":"John Sandoe Books","s":"john-sandoe-books","c":"literary","cn":"Literary London","m":241},{"n":"Mark Twain","s":"mark-twain","c":"world","cn":"The World in London","m":292}],"near_same":[{"s":"knoops-chelsea","m":60},{"s":"venchi-kings-road","m":96},{"s":"lartisan-du-chocolat","m":485},{"s":"venchi-exhibition-road","m":936},{"s":"peggy-porschen","m":959},{"s":"maitre-choux","m":985}]},{"slug":"melt-chocolates","name":"Melt Chocolates","area":"Westbourne","address":"59 Ledbury Road, W11 2AA","station":"Notting Hill Gate","walk":8,"lat":51.514142,"lng":-0.199227,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":null,"hours_short":"The shop does not publish its opening hours.","hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":null,"website":"https://meltchocolates.com/","instagram":"meltchocolates","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/731087989","types":["chocolate"],"verdict":"Chocolates tempered and moulded in the room behind the counter.","note":"Melt makes its bonbons and bars on the premises in an open kitchen, so the tempering and moulding happen a few feet from the shop floor rather than in a factory somewhere else. The range moves with the season, and they run a bean-to-bar workshop for anyone who wants to try it. 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The name is borrowed from mille-feuille, a thousand leaves.\n\nCelebration cakes are made to order in the same manner, among them the Constellation and a strawberry basket, in two sizes. 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It is still made from scratch on the premises every day, ingredient by ingredient: vanilla pods from Madagascar, pistachios from Sicily, hazelnuts from Piedmont, and nothing coloured or preserved.\n\nOver a hundred and thirty flavours have been through the case, some of them odd - basil, cognac, chocolate and chilli - but the ones people come back for are chocolate, nocciola, bacio and pistachio. Sorbets are fruit, sugar and water, and there is a dairy-free soya gelato.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Oddono's Gelati, 14 Bute Street, SW7 3EX, London","in_area":{"slug":"south-kensington","name":"South Kensington"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Aux Merveilleux de Fred South Kensington","s":"aux-merveilleux-de-fred-south-kensington","c":"bakeries","cn":"Bakeries","m":153},{"n":"Hagen","s":"hagen","c":"coffee","cn":"Coffee","m":154},{"n":"Natural History Museum","s":"natural-history-museum","c":"museums","cn":"Museums","m":314}],"near_same":[{"s":"maitre-choux","m":60},{"s":"aux-merveilleux-de-fred","m":153},{"s":"venchi-exhibition-road","m":228},{"s":"badiani-chelsea","m":780},{"s":"venchi-kings-road","m":965},{"s":"knoops-chelsea","m":980}]},{"slug":"oddonos-stoke-newington","name":"Oddono's Stoke Newington","area":"Stoke Newington","address":"42 Stoke Newington Church Street, N16 0LU","station":"Stoke Newington","walk":5,"lat":51.562222,"lng":-0.07543,"hours":[[12.0,22.0],[12.0,22.0],[12.0,22.0],[12.0,22.0],[12.0,23.0],[11.0,23.0],[11.0,22.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Th 12:00-22:00; Fr 12:00-23:00; Sa 11:00-23:00; Su 11:00-22:00","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"http://www.oddonos.com/shops.htm","hours_short":null,"hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":"2026-09-10","website":"http://www.oddonos.com/","instagram":"oddonos","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/3761737525","types":["gelato","late"],"verdict":"The Church Street branch of the South Kensington gelateria, on the good end for walking.","note":"The gelato comes from the same daily production as the original: Madagascan vanilla, Sicilian pistachio, Piedmont hazelnut, no colouring and no preservatives, with fruit sorbets alongside. Stoke Newington Church Street runs from Clissold Park down towards the High Street, and this sits among the bookshops and the pubs about halfway along.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Oddono's Stoke Newington, 42 Stoke Newington Church Street, N16 0LU, London","bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"The Jolly Butchers","s":"the-jolly-butchers","c":"beer","cn":"Beer","m":149},{"n":"The Good Egg","s":"the-good-egg","c":"breakfast","cn":"Breakfast & Brunch","m":229},{"n":"Abney Park","s":"abney-park","c":"outdoors","cn":"Outdoors & Nature","m":279}],"near_same":[{"s":"violet-cakes","m":2019},{"s":"badiani-angel","m":3594},{"s":"lily-vanilli","m":3672},{"s":"damson-chocolate","m":4033},{"s":"crosstown","m":4207},{"s":"dark-sugars-chocolates","m":4263}]},{"slug":"peggy-porschen","name":"Peggy Porschen","area":"Belgravia","address":"116 Ebury Street, SW1W 9QQ","station":"Sloane Square","walk":5,"lat":51.493293,"lng":-0.150544,"hours":[[8.5,17.5],[8.5,17.5],[8.5,17.5],[8.5,17.5],[8.5,18.0],[8.5,18.0],[8.5,18.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Th 08:30-17:30; Fr-Su 08:30-18:00","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://www.peggyporschen.com/pages/menus-location-hours","hours_short":null,"hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":"2026-09-10","website":"https://www.peggyporschen.com/","instagram":"peggyporschen","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"way/159402316","types":["cakes","sitdown"],"verdict":"The pink corner shop on Ebury Street, and a patisserie counter that earns the queue outside it.","note":"Peggy Porschen trained as a pastry chef and made her name decorating cakes - she wrote the books on it - before opening the parlour in Belgravia, which is painted pink, dressed with flowers to the season, and photographed several hundred times a day from the pavement outside.\n\nWhat is behind the front is a proper patisserie counter: layer cakes by the slice, cupcakes iced by hand, and a brunch menu served all day. Afternoon tea and the morning tea stand have to be booked; everything else is walk-in. Card only.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Peggy Porschen, 116 Ebury Street, SW1W 9QQ, London","in_area":{"slug":"belgravia","name":"Belgravia"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Elizabeth Street","s":"elizabeth-street","c":"beautiful-streets","cn":"Beautiful Streets","m":58},{"n":"Poil\u00e2ne","s":"poilane","c":"bakeries","cn":"Bakeries","m":60},{"n":"Prince Metternich","s":"prince-metternich","c":"world","cn":"The World in London","m":228}],"near_same":[{"s":"lartisan-du-chocolat","m":539},{"s":"badiani-victoria","m":555},{"s":"pierre-herme","m":765},{"s":"rococo-chocolates-belgravia","m":784},{"s":"maitre-choux-kings-road","m":959},{"s":"knoops-chelsea","m":1018}]},{"slug":"pierre-herme","name":"Pierre Herm\u00e9","area":"Belgravia","address":"13 Lowndes Street","station":"Knightsbridge","walk":5,"lat":51.498758,"lng":-0.157279,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":null,"hours_short":"The shop does not publish its opening hours.","hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":null,"website":"https://www.pierreherme.com/","instagram":"pierreherme","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/5348353374","types":["cakes","chocolate"],"verdict":"The macarons that made the pastry chef famous, in one small Belgravia room.","note":"Herme treats a macaron as a composition rather than a flavour: Ispahan is rose, lychee and raspberry, Mogador is milk chocolate and passion fruit, and the whole career rests on the idea that pastry deserves the seriousness cooking gets. The London shop is mostly a counter - macarons by the box, chocolates, and a few of the cakes.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Pierre Herm\u00e9, 13 Lowndes Street, London","in_area":{"slug":"belgravia","name":"Belgravia"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Sloane Street","s":"sloane-street","c":"shopping","cn":"Shopping","m":206},{"n":"Wilton Row","s":"wilton-row","c":"beautiful-streets","cn":"Beautiful Streets","m":309},{"n":"Harvey Nichols","s":"harvey-nichols","c":"shopping","cn":"Shopping","m":360}],"near_same":[{"s":"rococo-chocolates-belgravia","m":85},{"s":"peggy-porschen","m":765},{"s":"badiani-victoria","m":938},{"s":"lartisan-du-chocolat","m":986},{"s":"maitre-choux-kings-road","m":1087},{"s":"knoops-chelsea","m":1139}]},{"slug":"pierre-marcolini","name":"Pierre Marcolini","area":"Marylebone","address":"37 Marylebone High Street","station":"Baker Street","walk":5,"lat":51.520717,"lng":-0.15175,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":null,"hours_short":"The shop does not publish its opening hours.","hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":null,"website":"https://uk.marcolini.com/","instagram":"pierremarcolini","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/4839170253","types":["chocolate"],"verdict":"The Belgian who stopped buying his chocolate and went back to the bean.","note":"Marcolini won the world pastry championship in 1995 and then did something few Belgian chocolatiers do: he gave up ready-made couverture and began sourcing and roasting his own beans, so the bars taste of where the cocoa grew rather than of Belgium. Filled chocolates, ganaches, and a heart that has been copied everywhere.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Pierre Marcolini, 37 Marylebone High Street, London","in_area":{"slug":"marylebone","name":"Marylebone"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Hagen Marylebone","s":"hagen-marylebone","c":"coffee","cn":"Coffee","m":26},{"n":"Daunt Books Marylebone","s":"daunt-books-marylebone","c":"shopping","cn":"Shopping","m":47},{"n":"Fischer's","s":"fischers","c":"breakfast","cn":"Breakfast & Brunch","m":98}],"near_same":[{"s":"rococo-chocolates","m":111},{"s":"xo-chocolate","m":821},{"s":"badiani-mayfair","m":844},{"s":"venchi-great-marlborough-street","m":1150},{"s":"crosstown-fitzrovia","m":1225},{"s":"italian-bear-chocolate","m":1237}]},{"slug":"rococo-chocolates","name":"Rococo Chocolates","area":"Marylebone","address":"3 Moxon Street, W1U 4EW","station":"Baker Street","walk":6,"lat":51.519756,"lng":-0.152218,"hours":[[10.0,19.0],[10.0,19.0],[10.0,19.0],[10.0,19.0],[10.0,19.0],[10.0,19.0],[10.0,17.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Sa 10:00-19:00; Su 10:00-17:00","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://www.rococochocolates.com/pages/store-locator","hours_short":null,"hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":"2026-09-10","website":"https://www.rococochocolates.com/","instagram":"rococochocolatesldn","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/4936497427","types":["chocolate"],"verdict":"The chocolatier that made bean-to-bar respectable in London, on the best food street in Marylebone.","note":"Chantal Coady founded Rococo on the King's Road in 1983, when British chocolate meant a box of assorted creams, and built it on single-origin bars, artisan bonbons and a house style of blue-and-white wrappers you can spot across a room. The bars run to sea salt, cardamom and chilli-and-orange; the counter will make up a box a chocolate at a time.\n\nMoxon Street is the short one behind Marylebone High Street with La Fromagerie on one side and the Ginger Pig on the other, and the Sunday farmers' market at the end of it. Hot chocolate and ice cream to take away.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Rococo Chocolates, 3 Moxon Street, W1U 4EW, London","in_area":{"slug":"marylebone","name":"Marylebone"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Daunt Books Marylebone","s":"daunt-books-marylebone","c":"shopping","cn":"Shopping","m":74},{"n":"Hagen Marylebone","s":"hagen-marylebone","c":"coffee","cn":"Coffee","m":89},{"n":"Charles Babbage's house, 1 Dorset Street","s":"charles-babbages-house-1-dorset-street","c":"science","cn":"Science & Engineering","m":172}],"near_same":[{"s":"pierre-marcolini","m":111},{"s":"badiani-mayfair","m":735},{"s":"xo-chocolate","m":831},{"s":"venchi-great-marlborough-street","m":1108},{"s":"crosstown-fitzrovia","m":1225},{"s":"italian-bear-chocolate","m":1245}]},{"slug":"rococo-chocolates-belgravia","name":"Rococo Chocolates Belgravia","area":"Belgravia","address":"5 Motcomb Street, SW1X 8JU","station":"Knightsbridge","walk":5,"lat":51.499323,"lng":-0.156436,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":null,"hours_short":"The shop does not publish its opening hours.","hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":null,"website":"https://www.rococochocolates.com/","instagram":"rococochocolatesldn","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"way/530700233","types":["chocolate","sitdown"],"verdict":"The Motcomb Street shop, with a counter for hot chocolate as well as a shop floor.","note":"Single-origin bars and hand-made bonbons, and a counter for a hot chocolate or an ice cream to take away. Motcomb Street is the short pedestrian run behind Sloane Street, away from the traffic.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Rococo Chocolates Belgravia, 5 Motcomb Street, SW1X 8JU, London","in_area":{"slug":"belgravia","name":"Belgravia"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Wilton Row","s":"wilton-row","c":"beautiful-streets","cn":"Beautiful Streets","m":224},{"n":"Sloane Street","s":"sloane-street","c":"shopping","cn":"Shopping","m":291},{"n":"C\u00e9dric Grolet at The Berkeley","s":"cedric-grolet-at-the-berkeley","c":"bakeries","cn":"Bakeries","m":321}],"near_same":[{"s":"pierre-herme","m":85},{"s":"peggy-porschen","m":784},{"s":"badiani-victoria","m":903},{"s":"lartisan-du-chocolat","m":1045},{"s":"maitre-choux-kings-road","m":1167},{"s":"knoops-chelsea","m":1220}]},{"slug":"rococo-chocolates-kings-road","name":"Rococo Chocolates King's Road","area":"World's End","address":"321 King's Road","station":"South Kensington","walk":14,"lat":51.484472,"lng":-0.175542,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":null,"hours_short":"The shop does not publish its opening hours.","hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":null,"website":"https://www.rococochocolates.com/","instagram":"rococochocolatesldn","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/4936497426","types":["chocolate"],"verdict":"The shop Chantal Coady opened in 1983, where the whole thing started.","note":"Rococo began on the King's Road when British chocolate still meant a box of assorted creams, and the blue-and-white wrappers, the single-origin bars and the hand-made bonbons all came out of this one shop. The flavoured bars - sea salt, cardamom, chilli and orange - were strange enough at the time to be the argument.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Rococo Chocolates King's Road, 321 King's Road, London","in_area":{"slug":"chelsea","name":"Chelsea"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"James McNeill Whistler","s":"james-mcneill-whistler-house","c":"world","cn":"The World in London","m":266},{"n":"Carlyle's House","s":"carlyles-house","c":"museums","cn":"Museums","m":400},{"n":"Rosalind Franklin's flat, Donovan Court","s":"rosalind-franklins-flat-donovan-court","c":"science","cn":"Science & Engineering","m":410}],"near_same":[{"s":"badiani-chelsea","m":368},{"s":"aux-merveilleux-de-fred","m":911},{"s":"venchi-kings-road","m":940},{"s":"knoops-chelsea","m":976},{"s":"oddonos-gelati","m":1018},{"s":"maitre-choux-kings-road","m":1036}]},{"slug":"ruby-violet","name":"Ruby Violet","area":"King's Cross & St Pancras","address":"3 Wharf Road, N1C 4BZ","station":"London King's Cross","walk":5,"lat":51.535772,"lng":-0.123392,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":null,"hours_short":"Open seven days; check the hours before travelling.","hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":null,"website":null,"instagram":"rubyvioletices","maps_name":null,"attrs":["stepfree"],"osm":"node/5057389641","types":["gelato","sitdown"],"verdict":"Small-batch ice cream by Regent's Quarter, from a rotation of a hundred and sixty flavours.","note":"Julie Fisher started churning for the Tufnell Park farmers' market in 2011, kept a parlour on Fortess Road for ten years, and moved the whole thing down to King's Cross. Everything is made by hand in small batches on organic milk, free-range eggs and British or fair-trade sugar, and the list rotates through more than a hundred and sixty ice creams and sorbets, so what is in the cabinet depends on the week.\n\nThe orange chocolate chip has a Great Taste award and the hazelnut chocolate cluster ice cream cake took gold at the Quality Food awards.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Ruby Violet, 3 Wharf Road, N1C 4BZ, London","in_area":{"slug":"kings-cross-st-pancras","name":"King's Cross & St Pancras"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Queer Britain","s":"queer-britain","c":"museums","cn":"Museums","m":36},{"n":"Word on the Water","s":"word-on-the-water","c":"literary","cn":"Literary London","m":40},{"n":"Lethaby Gallery","s":"lethaby-gallery","c":"museums","cn":"Museums","m":113}],"near_same":[{"s":"damson-chocolate","m":894},{"s":"mille-patisserie-russell-square","m":1292},{"s":"badiani-angel","m":1372},{"s":"mamasons-dirty-ice-cream","m":1542},{"s":"darlish-bloomsbury","m":1913},{"s":"italian-bear-chocolate","m":2138}]},{"slug":"snowflake-luxury-gelato","name":"Snowflake Luxury Gelato","area":"Soho","address":"102 Wardour Street, W1F 0TP","station":"Tottenham Court Road","walk":3,"lat":51.513704,"lng":-0.133968,"hours":[[13.0,23.0],[13.0,23.0],[13.0,23.0],[13.0,23.0],[13.0,25.0],[13.0,25.0],[13.0,23.0]],"hours_raw":"Su-Th 13:00-23:00; Fr-Sa 13:00-01:00","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://snowflakegelato.co.uk/boutique-page/soho/","hours_short":null,"hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":"2026-09-10","website":"https://snowflakegelato.co.uk/","instagram":"snowflakegelato","maps_name":null,"attrs":["stepfree"],"osm":"way/157779536","types":["gelato","late","parlour","sitdown"],"verdict":"Gelato made with organic Jersey milk, and a Soho counter that runs to one in the morning at weekends.","note":"Snowflake churns in Buckinghamshire with organic Jersey milk and seasonal fruit, and the Wardour Street shop is where most people meet it: cones and tubs, but also waffles, crepes and sundaes built on the gelato, which is what keeps the room full after the pubs shut.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Snowflake Luxury Gelato, 102 Wardour Street, W1F 0TP, London","in_area":{"slug":"soho","name":"Soho"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Karl Marx","s":"karl-marx","c":"world","cn":"The World in London","m":97},{"n":"House of MinaLima","s":"house-of-minalima","c":"harry-potter","cn":"Harry Potter","m":103},{"n":"Soho Theatre","s":"soho-theatre","c":"venues","cn":"Performance venues","m":113}],"near_same":[{"s":"kova-patisserie","m":63},{"s":"venchi-wardour-street","m":64},{"s":"creme","m":167},{"s":"italian-bear-chocolate-soho","m":196},{"s":"cafe-de-nata","m":198},{"s":"chin-chin","m":203}]},{"slug":"venchi-exhibition-road","name":"Venchi Exhibition Road","area":"Brompton","address":"13 Exhibition Road","station":"South Kensington","walk":1,"lat":51.494949,"lng":-0.173694,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":null,"hours_short":"Hours for each shop are on the finder at venchi.com.","hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":null,"website":"https://uk.venchi.com/","instagram":"venchi1878","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/8086880069","types":["chocolate","gelato"],"verdict":"Turin chocolate and gelato halfway along the museum walk.","note":"Venchi has made chocolate in Turin since 1878, which is where gianduja comes from - the hazelnut and cocoa paste the Piedmontese invented when Napoleon's blockade cut the cocoa supply and they had to make it go further. The London shops sell the bars and the loose chocolates by weight and scoop gelato at the same counter. Exhibition Road is the pedestrianised run from South Kensington station past the V&A, the Science Museum and the Natural History Museum - a long way with children and very little else to stop for.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Venchi Exhibition Road, 13 Exhibition Road, London","in_area":{"slug":"south-kensington","name":"South Kensington"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Hagen","s":"hagen","c":"coffee","cn":"Coffee","m":161},{"n":"National Art Library","s":"national-art-library","c":"literary","cn":"Literary London","m":210},{"n":"Natural History Museum","s":"natural-history-museum","c":"museums","cn":"Museums","m":232}],"near_same":[{"s":"maitre-choux","m":168},{"s":"oddonos-gelati","m":228},{"s":"aux-merveilleux-de-fred","m":380},{"s":"venchi-kings-road","m":916},{"s":"knoops-chelsea","m":924},{"s":"maitre-choux-kings-road","m":936}]},{"slug":"venchi-great-marlborough-street","name":"Venchi Great Marlborough Street","area":"Soho","address":"32-33 Great Marlborough Street","station":"Oxford Circus","walk":3,"lat":51.513862,"lng":-0.139304,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":null,"hours_short":"Hours for each shop are on the finder at venchi.com.","hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":null,"website":"https://uk.venchi.com/","instagram":"venchi1878","maps_name":null,"attrs":["stepfree"],"osm":"way/272006365","types":["chocolate","gelato"],"verdict":"Turin chocolate and gelato beside Liberty.","note":"Venchi has made chocolate in Turin since 1878, which is where gianduja comes from - the hazelnut and cocoa paste the Piedmontese invented when Napoleon's blockade cut the cocoa supply and they had to make it go further. The London shops sell the bars and the loose chocolates by weight and scoop gelato at the same counter. On the corner by Liberty's timbered front, at the top of Carnaby Street.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Venchi Great Marlborough Street, 32-33 Great Marlborough Street, London","in_area":{"slug":"soho","name":"Soho"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Department of Coffee and Social Affairs","s":"department-of-coffee-and-social-affairs-soho","c":"coffee","cn":"Coffee","m":36},{"n":"Liberty London","s":"liberty-london","c":"shopping","cn":"Shopping","m":53},{"n":"Antidote Wine Bar","s":"antidote-wine-bar","c":"wine","cn":"Wine","m":56}],"near_same":[{"s":"italian-bear-chocolate-soho","m":190},{"s":"creme","m":285},{"s":"venchi-wardour-street","m":324},{"s":"kova-patisserie","m":362},{"s":"snowflake-luxury-gelato","m":369},{"s":"crosstown-fitzrovia","m":451}]},{"slug":"venchi-kings-road","name":"Venchi King's Road","area":"Chelsea","address":"71 King's Road, SW3 4NX","station":"Sloane Square","walk":8,"lat":51.489174,"lng":-0.164254,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":null,"hours_short":"Hours for each shop are on the finder at venchi.com.","hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":null,"website":"https://uk.venchi.com/","instagram":"venchi1878","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/7506291242","types":["chocolate","gelato"],"verdict":"Turin chocolate and gelato on the King's Road.","note":"Venchi has made chocolate in Turin since 1878, which is where gianduja comes from - the hazelnut and cocoa paste the Piedmontese invented when Napoleon's blockade cut the cocoa supply and they had to make it go further. The London shops sell the bars and the loose chocolates by weight and scoop gelato at the same counter. Cones and tubs at the front of the shop, the cabinet of loose chocolates behind them.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Venchi King's Road, 71 King's Road, SW3 4NX, London","in_area":{"slug":"chelsea","name":"Chelsea"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Bywater Street: George Smiley's house","s":"bywater-street-george-smileys-house","c":"secrets","cn":"Secrets & Espionage","m":100},{"n":"Mark Twain","s":"mark-twain","c":"world","cn":"The World in London","m":258},{"n":"John Sandoe Books","s":"john-sandoe-books","c":"literary","cn":"Literary London","m":335}],"near_same":[{"s":"knoops-chelsea","m":35},{"s":"maitre-choux-kings-road","m":96},{"s":"lartisan-du-chocolat","m":568},{"s":"venchi-exhibition-road","m":916},{"s":"rococo-chocolates-kings-road","m":940},{"s":"maitre-choux","m":949}]},{"slug":"venchi-long-acre","name":"Venchi Long Acre","area":"Covent Garden","address":"Long Acre, WC2E 9JT","station":"Covent Garden","walk":1,"lat":51.512851,"lng":-0.124421,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":null,"hours_short":"Hours for each shop are on the finder at venchi.com.","hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":null,"website":"https://uk.venchi.com/","instagram":"venchi1878","maps_name":null,"attrs":["stepfree"],"osm":"way/173544320","types":["chocolate","gelato"],"verdict":"Turin chocolate and gelato on the busiest walking route across Covent Garden.","note":"Venchi has made chocolate in Turin since 1878, which is where gianduja comes from - the hazelnut and cocoa paste the Piedmontese invented when Napoleon's blockade cut the cocoa supply and they had to make it go further. The London shops sell the bars and the loose chocolates by weight and scoop gelato at the same counter. Long Acre carries most of the foot traffic between Covent Garden and Leicester Square, and this is on it.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Venchi Long Acre, Long Acre, WC2E 9JT, London","in_area":{"slug":"covent-garden","name":"Covent Garden"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Stanfords","s":"stanfords","c":"classic-british-shops","cn":"Classic British Shops","m":66},{"n":"Floral Street","s":"floral-street","c":"beautiful-streets","cn":"Beautiful Streets","m":82},{"n":"Guinness Open Gate Brewery London","s":"guinness-open-gate-brewery-london","c":"beer","cn":"Beer","m":107}],"near_same":[{"s":"badiani-covent-garden","m":99},{"s":"wa-cafe","m":240},{"s":"la-gelatiera","m":253},{"s":"knoops-covent-garden","m":256},{"s":"kova-patisserie-chinatown","m":328},{"s":"cafe-de-nata","m":475}]},{"slug":"venchi-richmond","name":"Venchi Richmond","area":"East Twickenham","address":"25-26 George Street, TW9 1HY","station":"Richmond","walk":5,"lat":51.460627,"lng":-0.304468,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":null,"hours_short":"Hours for each shop are on the finder at venchi.com.","hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":null,"website":"https://uk.venchi.com/","instagram":"venchi1878","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"way/431995381","types":["chocolate","gelato"],"verdict":"Turin chocolate and gelato between Richmond station and the Green.","note":"Venchi has made chocolate in Turin since 1878, which is where gianduja comes from - the hazelnut and cocoa paste the Piedmontese invented when Napoleon's blockade cut the cocoa supply and they had to make it go further. The London shops sell the bars and the loose chocolates by weight and scoop gelato at the same counter. George Street, on the walk down from the station.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Venchi Richmond, 25-26 George Street, TW9 1HY, London","bank":0,"near_all":[{"n":"Brewers Lane","s":"brewers-lane","c":"beautiful-streets","cn":"Beautiful Streets","m":54},{"n":"Richmond Green","s":"richmond-green","c":"beautiful-streets","cn":"Beautiful Streets","m":193},{"n":"Hogarth House, Richmond","s":"hogarth-house-richmond","c":"literary","cn":"Literary London","m":197}],"near_same":[{"s":"badiani-white-city","m":8025},{"s":"knoops-kensington","m":9074},{"s":"badiani-chelsea","m":9157},{"s":"knoops-notting-hill","m":9312},{"s":"rococo-chocolates-kings-road","m":9335},{"s":"badiani-notting-hill","m":9347}]},{"slug":"venchi-wardour-street","name":"Venchi Wardour Street","area":"Soho","address":"143 Wardour Street, W1F 8WA","station":"Tottenham Court Road","walk":2,"lat":51.514113,"lng":-0.134633,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":null,"hours_short":"Hours for each shop are on the finder at venchi.com.","hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":null,"website":"https://uk.venchi.com/","instagram":"venchi1878","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"way/274458676","types":["chocolate","gelato"],"verdict":"Turin chocolate and gelato, with a wall of chocolate moving behind the shopfront.","note":"Venchi has made chocolate in Turin since 1878, which is where gianduja comes from - the hazelnut and cocoa paste the Piedmontese invented when Napoleon's blockade cut the cocoa supply and they had to make it go further. The London shops sell the bars and the loose chocolates by weight and scoop gelato at the same counter. The Soho shop has the chocolate wall, a sheet of it running behind glass, which is what stops people on the pavement.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Venchi Wardour Street, 143 Wardour Street, W1F 8WA, London","in_area":{"slug":"soho","name":"Soho"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"House of MinaLima","s":"house-of-minalima","c":"harry-potter","cn":"Harry Potter","m":40},{"n":"The Breakfast Club","s":"the-breakfast-club","c":"breakfast","cn":"Breakfast & Brunch","m":81},{"n":"Soho Theatre","s":"soho-theatre","c":"venues","cn":"Performance venues","m":131}],"near_same":[{"s":"kova-patisserie","m":40},{"s":"snowflake-luxury-gelato","m":64},{"s":"creme","m":103},{"s":"italian-bear-chocolate-soho","m":171},{"s":"chin-chin","m":238},{"s":"cafe-de-nata","m":258}]},{"slug":"violet-cakes","name":"Violet Cakes","area":"Hackney","address":"47 Wilton Way, E8 3ED","station":"Hackney Downs","walk":5,"lat":51.545481,"lng":-0.064117,"hours":[[9.0,17.0],[9.0,17.0],[9.0,17.0],[9.0,17.0],[9.0,17.0],[9.0,17.0],null],"hours_raw":"Mo-Sa 09:00-17:00","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://www.violetcakes.com/contact","hours_short":null,"hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":"2026-09-08","website":"https://www.violetcakes.com/","instagram":"violetcakeslondon","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"way/951712060","types":["cakes","sitdown"],"verdict":"Claire Ptak's corner bakery, and the cake the Sussexes were married with.","note":"Claire Ptak cooked at Chez Panisse in Berkeley before opening this on a Hackney corner, and the Californian habit came with her: organic and seasonal first, sugar second, so the cakes taste of the fruit rather than the icing. Madagascan vanilla, cane molasses, whatever the month has.\n\nShe made the lemon and elderflower cake for Harry and Meghan's wedding in 2018, which is the thing everyone knows, but the reason to come is the everyday counter - the buttermilk cake, the brownies, the whole-fruit tarts - eaten at one of the few seats by the window.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"Violet Cakes, 47 Wilton Way, E8 3ED, London","bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Binch","s":"binch","c":"beer","cn":"Beer","m":77},{"n":"London Fields Lido","s":"london-fields-lido","c":"outdoors","cn":"Outdoors & Nature","m":366},{"n":"Allpress London Roastery and Cafe","s":"allpress-london-roastery-and-cafe","c":"coffee","cn":"Coffee","m":458}],"near_same":[{"s":"lily-vanilli","m":1830},{"s":"oddonos-stoke-newington","m":2019},{"s":"crosstown","m":2398},{"s":"dark-sugars-chocolates","m":2449},{"s":"badiani-angel","m":2965},{"s":"darlish-spitalfields","m":3131}]},{"slug":"wa-cafe","name":"WA Caf\u00e9","area":"Covent Garden","address":"5 New Row, WC2N 4LH","station":"Leicester Square","walk":2,"lat":51.511041,"lng":-0.126334,"hours":[[11.0,20.0],[11.0,20.0],[11.0,20.0],[11.0,20.0],[11.0,20.0],[11.0,20.0],[11.0,20.0]],"hours_raw":"Mo-Su 11:00-20:00","hours_source":"web","hours_url":"https://www.wacafe.co.uk/visit-us/","hours_short":null,"hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":"2026-09-08","website":"https://www.wacafe.co.uk/visit-us/","instagram":null,"maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/6029728385","types":["cakes","sitdown"],"verdict":"Japanese patisserie on a Covent Garden side street, French method and Japanese flavours.","note":"French patisserie technique applied to matcha, yuzu, black sesame and the rest: cheesecakes, souffl\u00e9 sponges, mousses and rolled cakes, in a small pale room off St Martin's Lane. It is the sort of counter where the cake is the reason to sit down rather than something to have with the coffee.\n\nThey bake for other people too - Hare and Tortoise, MAIDO and KINTAN all take their cakes. Last orders a quarter of an hour before closing.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"WA Caf\u00e9, 5 New Row, WC2N 4LH, London","in_area":{"slug":"covent-garden","name":"Covent Garden"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Kiss the Hippo","s":"kiss-the-hippo-covent-garden","c":"coffee","cn":"Coffee","m":15},{"n":"Blue Note London","s":"blue-note-london","c":"venues","cn":"Performance venues","m":64},{"n":"Sotheran's","s":"sotherans","c":"classic-british-shops","cn":"Classic British Shops","m":86}],"near_same":[{"s":"knoops-covent-garden","m":21},{"s":"la-gelatiera","m":31},{"s":"kova-patisserie-chinatown","m":200},{"s":"venchi-long-acre","m":240},{"s":"badiani-covent-garden","m":245},{"s":"cafe-de-nata","m":410}]},{"slug":"xo-chocolate","name":"XO Chocolate","area":"Fitzrovia","address":"35 Riding House Street, W1W 7DX","station":"Oxford Circus","walk":5,"lat":51.518693,"lng":-0.140327,"hours":null,"hours_raw":null,"hours_source":null,"hours_url":null,"hours_short":"Weekdays only; the shop does not publish its hours.","hours_extra":null,"hours_checked":null,"website":"https://xochocolate.co.uk/","instagram":"xochocolatelondon","maps_name":null,"attrs":[],"osm":"node/10699089662","types":["chocolate"],"verdict":"Bonbons made a few streets away, in a glass box off Great Portland Street.","note":"A small chocolatier's counter in the Interlock building on Riding House Street, the one with the brick facade folded into a curve. What is in the case is bonbons and bars made in small batches - including a popping candy one and a range made without alcohol, which is rarer in a bonbon shop than you would think - along with hot chocolate to take away.\n\nIt keeps office hours and shuts at weekends, so it is a weekday errand rather than a Saturday one.","note_links":null,"figure":null,"maps_q":"XO Chocolate, 35 Riding House Street, W1W 7DX, London","in_area":{"slug":"fitzrovia","name":"Fitzrovia"},"bank":1,"near_all":[{"n":"Kaffeine","s":"kaffeine","c":"coffee","cn":"Coffee","m":26},{"n":"Attendant","s":"attendant-foley","c":"coffee","cn":"Coffee","m":63},{"n":"Olaudah Equiano","s":"olaudah-equiano","c":"world","cn":"The World in London","m":136}],"near_same":[{"s":"crosstown-fitzrovia","m":410},{"s":"italian-bear-chocolate","m":415},{"s":"creme","m":540},{"s":"venchi-great-marlborough-street","m":541},{"s":"venchi-wardour-street","m":643},{"s":"italian-bear-chocolate-soho","m":652}]}]}