Townhouse

Coffee and cake are served in the old kitchen of an early eighteenth-century house on Fournier Street, with Queen cakes baked to a recipe as old as the building itself. Beyond the counter, the shop offers ceramics, books and antiques – a mix that has evolved over more than twenty years – while a gallery across the courtyard hosts exhibitions by contemporary artists. Facing Hawksmoor's Christ Church, it makes for a wonderfully singular stop in Spitalfields.