Stomach rumbling while you’re wrapped up warm and on the move? Stop by one of the city’s holes in the wall, a window into almost anything you fancy.
Perhaps the most iconic hatch in London is Russell Square’s Cabman’s Shelter. Informally known as Kate’s Cab Hut, non-cabbies are only allowed to order from the window, which serves brilliantly satisfying egg, bacon and sausage sarnies, fuss-free teas and coffees, and sometimes hot roast beef baguettes with lashings of horseradish. Elsewhere, at Bao Borough, hungry souls can cruise by the front of the restaurant for takeaway beers and fluffy signature buns, and down the side of Chip Shop Brixton, there’s everything from Korean chicken wings to slap-up battered cod, chips and mushy peas on offer.
