London's Best Shops & Markets

The UK is a nation of diehard shoppers. Retail therapy is the country’s favourite leisure activity – an all-consuming passion – and London is its beating heart. It’s one of the world’s most exciting shopping cities, packed with grand department stores, trend-setting boutiques, timeless traditional traders, edgy concept stores, absorbing antiques centres, eccentric novelty shops, exclusive purveyors of luxury goods, mouth-watering food emporiums, bustling markets and much more. Whether you want to revitalise your wardrobe or restock your larder, buy a new computer or an antique chair, track down a designer watch or a rare first edition − or find a gift for someone who’s impossible to buy for − you’re bound to find inspiration in London’s Best Shops & Markets, which features some 300 of the capital’s very best shopping destinations.