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bespoke hamper made up for you.
The breads are baked on the premises
and the Bluebird food store also supplies
bread to other restaurants and shops.
The wine cellar below supplies more
than 750 unique wines, liqueurs, spirits
and cigars from all over the world. It also
runs special wine tasting events and
classes.
Food store: Monday-Friday 7.30am-
7.30pm, Saturday 9am-7pm, Sunday
9am-5pm. Wine cellar: Monday-Friday
10am-7.30pm, Saturday 11am-7pm,
Sunday 11am-5pm.
350 King’s Road, SW3 5UU. T: 020 7559
1140 (food store), 020 7559 1130 (wine
cellar)
www.bluebird-restaurant.co.uk
The Chelsea Cake Shop
A cake shop specialising in individually
crafted cakes, from wedding cakes to
cup cakes. All the cakes are made to
order in the open-plan kitchen.
Tuesday-Friday 10am-5.30pm,
Saturday 10am-4.30pm.
66 Lower Sloane Street, SW1W 8BP
T: 020 7730 6277
www.chelseacakeshop.co.uk
The Bluebird Food Store
and Wine Cellar
Jane Asher Party Cakes and
Sugarcraft
Actress Jane Asher’s Chelsea Green
cake shop, with everything you need to
create a baking masterpiece.
If baking is not your thing, they can
make you a show-shopping cake to
order.
Monday-Saturday 9.30am-5.30pm.
22-24 Cale Street, SW3 3QU
T: 020 7584 6177
www.janeasher.com
Jeroboams
Peter Rich opened the first Jereboams
shop in 1985, taking inspiration from
France’s traditional fromageries. It originally
focused mainly on cheeses, but
also stocked speciality foods, fine wines
and champagnes.
The Pont Street store has a range of
wines from Bordeaux, Burgandy and
Tuscany, as well as from around the
world. It is managed by New Zealander
Xavier Hornblow.
Monday-Friday 10am-8pm, Saturday
10am-7pm, closed Sundays.
6 Pont Street, SW1X 9EL
T: 020 7235 1612
www.jeroboams.co.uk
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A specialist organic supermarket in
Chelsea Farmers Market, off Sydney
Street.
Monday-Saturday 9.30am-8pm,
Sunday 10am-6.30pm.
T: 020 7351 4321
La Bottega
An Italian delicatessen that also serves
food and coffee and offers a catering
service and hampers.
Monday-Friday 8am-8pm, Saturday
9am-6pm, Sunday 9am-5pm.
65 Lower Sloane Street, SW1W 8HD
T: 020 7730 8844
www.labottega65.com
Partridges
Partridges
Partridges is the holder of the Royal
Warrant, By Appointment Grocers to
HM the Queen, and celebrates its
40th anniversary of trading in Chelsea
in 2012.
The family-run food shop originally
opened at 132 Sloane Street by Richard
Shepherd in May 1972, and he was
joined by his brother John in 1981. The
store expanded and eventually relocated
to Duke of York Square in 2004.
There’s a food market with around
150 small speciality food producers on
Saturdays.
Partridges has a range of more than
5,000 foods and wines from Britain and
around the globe, and also has a wine
bar and café with a private terrace.
It offers local delivery and bespoke
hampers.
Market: Saturday 10am-4pm. Store:
Daily, 8am-10pm.
2-5 Duke of York Square, SW3 4LY
T: 020 7730 0651
www.partridges.co.uk
Thirst class
You’d be hard-pressed to find anywhere
in London with better pubs, clubs and
bars than Chelsea. Whether you fancy
a cider on Sydney Street or shots in
Sloane Square, there will be a venue for
you in our guide
The Admiral Codrington
This pub has a restaurant and a private
dining room as well as the traditional bar
area, and that sets the tone for the
Codrington. It has a reputation for good
food and a buzzy atmosphere, and it
does a good job of mixing the traditional
and the modern.
The restaurant even has a retractable
glass roof that can be pulled back on
sunny days to allow al fresco dining.
Well-prepared for the changeable English
weather, there’s also a heated beer
garden with all-weather awning.
The food ranges from fish and chips to
more exotic fare. The lunch menu is also
available in the bar. Sunday’s menu
includes brunch and roasts.
Open Monday-Thursday 11.30am-
12am, Friday and Saturday 11.30am-
1am, Sunday 12pm-10.30pm.
Restaurant service: Monday-Friday lunch
12pm-2.30pm, dinner 6.30pm-11pm,
Saturday lunch 12pm-3.30pm, dinner
6.30pm-11pm, Sunday 12pm-9pm. Bar
menu: Monday-Friday 12pm-2.30pm,
Saturday 12pm-3.30pm, Sunday 12pm-
4pm. The evening bar snacks menu is
available daily, 6pm-10.30pm.
17 Mossop Street, SW3 2LY
T: 020 7581 0005
www.theadmiralcodrington.co.uk
Barts
Barts is a ‘secret’ speakeasy-style bar
on Sloane Avenue. To find it, you have to