Cafe

• New Queen's Park cafe and wine bar MILK BEACH brings in Duck and Waffle and P Franco chefs for the food

  The Queen's Park cafe game just got a whole load more interesting with the arrival of MILK BEACH on Lonsdale Road. They're promising the absolute best coffee, banging brunches and the natural wine bar and small plates offering by night sounds great too.

• Anthony Demetre is opening Vermuteria bar and cafe in Coal Drops Yard in King's Cross

  Respected restaurateur and chef Anthony Demetre is bringing his vision of a Spanish/Italian vermuteria to the new Coal Drops Yard part of King's Cross.

• London's most Instagrammed spot Elan Cafe is opening at Oxford Circus and Selfridges

  The cafe with the pink wall of flowers is expanding with two new central London openings planned for behind Oxford Circus and in Selfridges.

• Marylebone is getting a posh corner store with Boxcar Baker and Deli opening

  Only the best for Marylebone's residents and workers - this new deli and cafe will serve up British produce and Swedish pastries making it a very handy addition to the area.

• Arthur's Cafe in Dalston is closing for good

  

  "Arthur’s has never closed, not even when bombs rained all around. Every weekday on the dot of 7am, the doors open and the faithful flood in."

  Sadly, the words that the then-Guardian restaurant reviewer Marina O'Loughlin wrote in her love letter to Dalston cafe Arthur's will seem pretty poignant next

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• Feya on James Street will be a handy cafe for shoppers and Instagrammers alike

  Just around the corner from Selfridges and St Christopher's Place, chef Zahra Khan is getting ready to open an all day cafe with a special breakfast menu by popular Finnish Instagrammer Vanelja.

• Isla Ray is an all day cafe opening on Deptford High Street

  Returning Londoner Rachael Dalton-Loveland has come back from Oz inspired by their cafe culture to open this all day cafe which will serve up sharing plates and cocktails in the evening to Deptford denizens.

• Cereal Grind in Whitechapel is London's first hotel cereal cafe

  If your day needs something seriously sugary to kickstart it, then head over to this new East London hotel where the all day cafe is serving up cereal cocktails and crazy shakes.

• Beam cafe expands from Crouch End to Highbury's Blackstock Road

  Three times Time Out neighbourhood cafe winner Beam is coming to Blackstock Road with its quality weekend brunches and a dedicated evening menu.

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• Worth a walk to Lambeth - we Test Drive the Garden Museum Cafe

  Down by the river in Lambeth, this museum cafe has been slowly growing a reputation for its cooking - we went for a look.

• Quality Chop House is expanding with a new cafe

  

  Not content with a restaurant, bar and deli, Farringdon's Quality Chop House is now adding a cafe too. If you've been to the deli there recently - and we have many times for arguably the best pork pies in London - you'll have seen the wine shop that's next door (previously run by Noble Wines). It's that area that's becoming their new cafe. 

  There you'll be able to sit down and work your way through as many of those pork pies as you can (and we

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• Street trader Popina are opening their first cafe and deli on Duke Street

  Farmers' market stalwart Popina are moving into bricks and mortar with their first cafe and deli just south of Oxford Street

• Bread Ahead's new Soho cafe has a build-your-own porridge menu and French toast to go

  There’s no stopping Borough Market bakers Bread Ahead, who continue to pop up all over London with their sourdoughs, doughnuts and hot, comforting breakfasts.

• The Last Crumb Cafe will be a cafe and work hub for Stoke Newington

  Stoke Newington Church Street is getting an all day cafe with a separate work hub - perfect for local freelancers who love their coffee