One you get inside, the breakfast room has several distinct areas full of furniture of all kinds that’s weathered and antique-y, but in a well-worn and well-loved style, not an expensive Louis XIV style. seating varies from comfy cracked leather couches to fading wooden picnic tables to mismatched colorful chairs, all of which make you feel at home in the best sort of way. - Family Styles

Slipping a tot of whisky into your bed-time cuppa is nothing new but for one bar the classic hot toddy wasn't quite enough. The Last Days of Decadence in Shoreditch have developed a delicious menu of hot, alcoholic cocktails where tea takes a starring role in each drink. - Tea

Dover Street Market is a new type of retail concept from Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons. 6 floors of bare walls and steel beams featuring over a dozen designers including Raf Simons, Junya Watanabe, Alber Elbaz and Comme des Garcons, who can develop their space as they see fit. - Urbanpath

If only there were more coffee bars like this in central London, rather than the minefield of mediocre café and sandwich chains. In 2007, Fernandez & Wells won the Best Coffee Bar category at the Time Out Eating and Drinking Awards. At around £5 a pop, its sandwiches aren’t cheap, but they are something special. - Timeout

Spitalfields and the surrounding Brick Lane and Sunday Up markets together make for one of the busiest places in London on a Sunday. Head here for vintage bargains. (pic)