Matlby Street is the more discerning London Bridge market goer's choice. Located by the old furniture market, round the back of storage warehouses in a narrow corridor of a street, it's full of the real foodie goodies, true Londoners, excellently tiny dogs and Raybans. First we sampled everything that was going, before indulging in the most incredible brownie. Salted caramel centre, sticky middle, crisp crust. Mmmmelty.
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| Our Brownie was from @eddibles bakery. He's a charming chap who sure knows how to impress the lay-dees. |
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| Sliders by Market Gourmet |
Maltby Street caters for both foodie ingredients shopping and the hungry hung-over kind of Saturday. Sea Bass van is popular with the former, and Monty's Deli has to win the prize for the latter, with a snaking queue of ashen-faced people awaiting their pastrami, gherkin, mustardy baps - immediately restoring full colour to their cheeks once they're stuffing them afterwards.
There are also a variety of permanently temporary restaurants and bars that you can sit down inside to indulge properly, but by the time we arrived at noon, these were heaving and the brownie was enough to set us on our way towards Tooley Street for some art.
We headed over to The White Cube to see Theaster Gates' My Labour is my protest, a mixed media exhibition of painting, sculpture, video and installation art about racism in Chicago continuing to the present day. It's one of the most compelling exhibitions I've seen this year. This truck outside is one of the works, accompanied by a video of its making. I couldn't recommend it more.
After The White Cube, we headed over to Tooley Street's Village East where we had a light champagne brunch - but of course. Village East is one of those places that suits almost any occasion - a light casual breakfast, champagne brunch, Sunday roast, after work drinks or a dinner date - and I say that as someone who has been there for all such occasions. If it's your first time, have the mammoth fish and chips. They are some of the best in town.
After lunch, we walked over to The Tate Modern. My Tate membership card is probably my favourite thing in my wallet. It's so great to have access to any exhibition, any time, and with a friend too for the one off membership fee I pay in spring.
We saw to Willheim Klein, Daido Moriyama exhibition and then headed up to the cafe to enjoy the view out over the river.
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| One of William Klein's Models in Rome images |
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