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.

Colourful cut flowers and foliage at the market stalls.

Columbia Road Flower Market London: A Sunday Walk in 2018

Liberty London’s illuminated Tudor Revival façade at night during Christmas 2016

Liberty Christmas Windows 2016: The Nutcracker

Liberty London’s 2016 Nutcracker Christmas windows transformed Great Marlborough Street with ballerinas, toy soldiers and miniature theatrical sets created with The Royal Ballet.

Selfridges Shine On Christmas window with Santa and designer-clad mannequins in 2016

Selfridges Christmas Windows 2016: Shine On! and Bad Santa

A walk along Oxford Street to see Selfridges’ 2016 Shine On! Christmas windows, where sequinned Santa joins a surreal designer party.

Fortnum & Mason Piccadilly façade illuminated for Christmas in 2016

Fortnum & Mason at Christmas 2016: Gifts, Windows and the Christmas Shop

A 2016 Christmas visit to Fortnum & Mason in Piccadilly, exploring the Christmas Shop, gift displays and whimsical windows themed around togetherness.

Fan-shaped Christmas lights with a coloured centre above Old Bond Street in 2016

Bond Street Christmas Lights 2016: Luxury Shops and Fenwick

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