Shops & Stores

Antiques and collectables displayed on a market stall beneath the historic covered Apple Market in Covent Garden

Covent Garden Shopping Guide: The Best Shops, Streets and Markets

Barry Roberts outside Paul A Young Fine Chocolates on Wardour Street in Soho

London’s Finest Chocolate Shops: A Soho and Mayfair Tasting Tour

A 2018 tasting walk through Soho, Piccadilly and Mayfair, visiting SAID dal 1923, Paul A Young, Prestat and Charbonnel et Walker.

Liberty London's Tudor-revival façade with a black taxi passing outside

A Morning at Liberty London: Fabrics, Havaianas and Breakfast

Cordings of Piccadilly shopfront at Denman House on a wet London evening

Cordings of Piccadilly: Shopping for a British Tweed Cap

A winter search for a properly fitted British tweed cap leads inside Cordings of Piccadilly, a London outfitter whose country instincts have endured since 1839.

North Face shopping bag outside the Covent Garden shop

North Face Etip Gloves in Covent Garden: A 2015 Field Test

Harrods’ illuminated Knightsbridge façade during Christmas 2014

Harrods Christmas Windows 2014: The Land of Make Believe

Harrods transformed its Knightsbridge frontage into a blue-lit winter fantasy for Christmas 2014, filling the windows with toy soldiers, ballerinas, oversized toys and the story of a tiny mouse called…

White globe Christmas lights suspended above shoppers and traffic on Oxford Street in 2014.

Oxford Street Christmas Lights and Windows in 2014

An evening walk along Oxford Street two days after the 2014 Christmas lights were switched on, recording the illuminated West End and changing department-store landscape.