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• The White Building Market is Hackney Wick's new sustainable shopping hub

  

  If you're minded to find somewhere that gives more than lip service to sustainability and would prefer to give the supermarkets a swerve, then this new Hackney shopping spot might be of interest.

  CRATE Brewery along with its neighbour's Silo is gearing up to launch a weekly market, selling everything from freshly milled flour for sourdough making to natural wines and refillable washing up liquids.

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• Pophams Home is the interiors shop that you'll want to blow your paycheck in

  

  They've already caused an Insta storm with their beautiful pastries and perfect pastas, now London bakery Pophams has designs on your interiors.

  A week ago they launched Pophams Home - an online store just packed (in a beautiful, Marie Kondo style way of course) with beautiful items for the home. As they explain it, the shop's "a chance to share the artists and creatives, whose styles and stories have inspired us... a mixture of items you will have

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• Nourished Communities sells farmers market produce from its Canonbury shop

  

  Folks who live in or around Canonbury in Islington may have spotted what looks to be a rather unusual installation in the window at high-end furniture store Coexistence on Canonbury Lane.

  It turns out that the shop has been supporting a company called Nourished Communities, which stepped in to look after suppliers affected by the closure of farmers' markets in London during the lockdown.

  The premise is simple - instead of trying

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• Peckham Cellars is a new neighbourhood kitchen, wine bar and shop opening on Queens Road

  Three Peckham locals are behind this new opening which hopes to be a cool place to drop in and enjoy wine and food.

• Harrods have opened H café - an all day eating and shopping space - in Henley

  

  Well this was a bit sneaky. Harrods has opened its first standalone cafe outside London. H café opened its doors in Henley two days ago. The two floor spot on Market Place aims to be somewhere you can enjoy the Knightsbridge department store's food whilst also having a range of food, drink and home accessories gift ideas to shop from. Alternatively, you can just shop on the Harrods website and use click and collect to pick your purchase up

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• Italian and Japanese deli Vallebona pops up in Coal Drops Yard

  

  Interesting foodie news for anyone near King's Cross. Wonderful foodie store Vallebona has just opened a pop-up shop down at Coal Drops Yard.

  Run by Stefano Vallebona and his wife Naoko, the company - which began life as a stall in Borough Market back in the 90s - has for a while been a major foodie destination down in Wimbledon. It supplies all manner of amazing Italian and Japanese produce, and does a roaring trade with chefs and

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• Authentique Epicerie and Bar to open on Fortess Road

  All-French team join forces to open this wine bar on Fortess Road, which will also sell French food and serve as a wine store too.

• Harrods Food Hall redesign begins with opening of new Roastery and Bake Hall

  Big changes are happening to Harrods Food Halls with the first section reopening this winter

• Test driving Albion Clerkenwell - a place with something for everyone

  We head to the site of Turnmills for the latest of Terence Conran's Albions - much more than just a simple restaurant.