Find the chilled out Toklas Bakery next door to the delicious Toklas restaurant. Opened by the founders of Frieze magazine and art fairs – and named after writer and primo bohemian Alice B Toklas – you can feel oodles of artsy energy running through the place. Score a seat in the back room (past that lovely marble counter) which is covered in Frieze-adjacent exhibition posters and set up with classy, mid-century canteen seating and feast on elegant breakfast viennoiserie, with flaky croissants, pain au chocolat, and cardomom buns. At lunchtime things step up a gear, with chunky focaccia sandwiches (the roast chicken with crispy skin and pungent aioli has our heart) and strecci aka Roman-style slices of pizza. Cakes and bakes incorporate seasonal fruits such as rhubarb and even pomello, and there are chocolate cookies for the purists. Then add on a loaf (grain is milled in-house) of aged – or porridge – sourdough bread to take home.
Order this
Score a couple of cookies and slip them into your pocket for later; try the tahini or the bitter chocolate and honey.
Time Out tip
Check out what’s happening over at 180 Strand, the sprawling art gallery next door.