A new London chocolate shop + 3 London restaurants not to miss

Plus patisserie I'd forgotten was quite so good.

Hello!

These newsletters have been quite London-centric lately.

And … this is another one. 😅

I hope you’ll bear with me.

I’m going to do a bit of gadding about this summer so it should get a bit more varied. Plus I still have Amsterdam and Paris recommendations to send you.

As always, I’m open to your recommendations to where I should go! I’ll be heading to Yorkshire next week and hoping to also go through the Cotswolds, Surrey, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Sussex and Wales.

But for now, more London:

I’ve been to six restaurants in the last two weeks. I’m sharing the three I loved the most. [I paid for my food in all six of the restaurants.]

Also on this week’s agenda:

London has a new chocolate shop!

Hurrah!

A few weeks ago Birley Bakery quietly opened a chocolate shop that also sells ice cream and sorbet. It’s just a few doors down from the bakery that opened on Cale St in Chelsea in December 2022.

Their team invited me down to check it out. I took the opportunity to get a proper introduction…