SOHO Coffee O2 Shopping Centre

You'll find most SOHO Coffee outposts in airports — Geneva, Palma, Budapest and the like — so this one inside Hampstead's O2 Centre on Finchley Road feels like a rarer treat, a spot you can settle into rather than rush through. The menu leans towards breakfast, doors open at 8am and stay open until 8pm (finishing at 6pm on Sundays), and there's a choice of dine-in or takeaway alongside wheelchair-accessible entrance and seating and moderate prices. A solid 4.1 rating from 179 reviews suggests it does a steady job of both.