Cafe

If you're a Clapton local, you'll probably already be acquainted with Uchi's game. By day, they're a bakery serving up beef curry buns, sandos and black sesame lattes. In the evening, that changes up to a Japanese diner. Now they're bringing the bakery element of their offering over to Islington.

Their new place will be on Camden Passage, a street which already has some interesting Japanese offerings from the Katsute 100 tea house and the exemplary Sushi Show to the newest Kanazawa curry bread kiosk.

We haven't seen the menu yet, but they're promising their lovely sandos,

Updated 23/7/26

We were the first to tell you about the arrival of the Korean matcha house Tokkia in Covent Garden. And we were there on day one to check out their drinks and salt breads and stick with them on the ride to the position they have now with a perma-queue outside.

Founder Sooji Im really found a gap in London's often saturated drinks market with her elevated take on matcha and the popular seasonal blends she offered. Most recently the cafe

It's all change down on the lower ground floor of Selfridges, where the store's Dolly's Cafe is being transformed. Next week it reopens under a new guise, Imagination Café, which will be "an artist-designed hub where art, food and ideas collide." The folk behind the menu are Malik Acid, the brother and sister team of Cameron and Missy Malik-Flynn. Cameron's a drinks man who's worked for BAO and The Standard. Missy is probably best known as the co-founder of perma-hot Soho spot Rita's.

For the Selfridges cafe, the duo have brought in artist Katie Stout, commissioning her to create

Updated 20/7/26 - this is a six week pop-up not a permanent opening

As longstanding local customers to N5 Kitchen in Highbury, we can personally attest to the happiness that Clerkenwell workers and residents are going to feel when they open there this month. The catering company and cafe have built up a solid business in North London with their breakfasts and lunches, which are great for anyone working from home. Now they're hoping that EC1 folk will fall in love with their offering too.

The duo behind it, founders Milly Wilson and Suzie Bliss, already cater for

You may be familiar with the building on the corner of Geffrye and Cremer Street, just as you come out of Hoxton station. It's opened under a few guises in the past years, most recently Molly's Cafe, from the people behind The Anchor & Hope. But it's always been something of a tricky site, despite a relatively prominent position and being attached to the Museum of the Home.

Now it's just got a new lease of life, and that happens to be from the same people behind the camera-phobic bar, Space Talk in Farringdon. Up until now, they've been rather tight-lipped about what they've

Cup of Joy is a coffee shop and bakery that's been a huge success in Istanbul, where it started in Bebek and now has eight locations across the city. And now they're expanding overseas for the first time and heading our way.

Taking over a newly developed site that's right opposite Jikoni in Marylebone, the main event here will be their coffee. Their signature blend features Arabica beans from El Salvador, Brazil and Colombia, which has "tasting notes of dark chocolate, orange and hazelnut". Alongside their coffee, they'll also be featuring rotating guest coffees from around the

If you love the idea of trying new baked goods, but are a wee bit on the lazy side in terms of travelling across London to get them, then the coming month will see four hot London bakeries descending on Highbury.

Highbury Barn coffee shop Profile is welcoming in a different guest bakery every weekend in June, with some of the hottest bakers in town getting involved. They're promising "a rotating selection of pastries, bakes, and special releases".

The four bakeries involved are Walthamstow's Suba (6/7 June), Hackney's Forno (13/14 June), roaming bakery Tabula (20/21 June)

Anna Higham's Islington bakery Quince is, quite rightly, lauded as one of this city's best bakeries. So the news today that she's getting ready to open her own cafe should make North London residents sit up and pay attention. Clementine will be an all-day cafe, opening up across the road from the bakery serving up brunch and lunch. She's taking over a space that has previously been a pub in various incarnations, but frankly, we can see it working much better in the area as a

They're best known for their Macbeth grilled cheese sandwich with haggis, and Scottish-inspired street food folk Deeney's are hoping to introduce those toasties and more to art fans this summer. They've taken on the cafe space at the soon-to-open gallery dedicated to illustrative art in Clerkenwell.

Their cafe at The Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration will serve up those toasties plus salads and soups to gallery visitors and locals. It sounds like a lovely space, set inside the old Boiler House, with space for 40 inside plus a large south-facing terrace, perfect for the

Updated 22/4/26 with opening date

Londoners' capacity to be excited by the arrival of a new bakery knows no bounds, so the arrival of a new one in Bethnal Green should be of interest. This will be the third opening by Burnt, a neighbourhood cafe and restaurant with branches in Shepherd's Bush and Bloomsbury. But this, their first East London venture, will also feature its own in-house bakery.

The bakery addition will mean that not only will East London folk be able to enjoy their popular pistachio croissant, but a whole load more bakes, including a rhubarb and

They may have been the subject of much frenzied conversation on TikTok relating to what the girls of North London are doing on a Saturday, but Jolene have also been busy preparing for their first central London opening. Jolene Bridle Lane might sound more like a bakery out in the sticks, but it's actually right in the heart of Soho.

They're setting up shop inside streetwear company The Aries' flagship store, where their cafe will serve up coffee, sarnies

Almost a year after she opened her first matcha cafe Frothee, in King's Cross, Hanife Hursit and her dad Ram are gearing up for expansion. Hanife's TikTok chronicling of the opening of their first business turned Frothee into a viral hit. There were queues around the block when it first opened, and there were high profile collaborations with Palestinian-Jordanian singer Zeyne to keep it in the spotlight.

With all that in mind, it's probably no surprise that the father/daughter duo are readying to open their second cafe. This time they're moving into central London, to Covent

It certainly feels as though London's bakery scene is in the ascendancy at the moment, and the arrival of Kichiya in London Fields is only going to add to that. Baker Ayako Takei trained in formal French patisserie at Le Cordon Bleu over a decade ago and worked at The Wolseley and Honey & Co, but has also built up a fanbase selling cakes and pastries at street markets and via direct sales.

Now Aya is opening her first cake shop and cafe, in London Fields. Kichiya on Mentmore Terrace will serve up her classic European pastries with an authentic Japanese twist. Think matcha

Bara, a new cafe and sandwich shop in Peckham, is bringing something new to the table: a little bit of Welshness.  It comes from Zoë Heimann and Cecily Dalladay, a private chef who made it to the quarter-finals in MasterChef - The Professionals. 

That Welshness comes through with a big focus on produce sourced from Wales. It's also very prominent in a few elements like their own Bara Brith (a Welsh fruit loaf) and a Swansea Breakfast, which is smoked bacon, Blas Y Tir leeks, Câr-y-Môr cockles and laverbread on toasted focaccia. Their own focaccia will be a big part

It is a boom time for cafes and bakeries at the moment. Recently, we've had the very successful opening of Onsu in Soho and this week, we're also getting the new Claridge's Bakery. Now it turns out that we're also getting a new cafe from a chef who has made his name at Claridge's sister hotel, The Connaught. 

Nicolas Rouzaud, who runs Nicolas Rouzaud at The