Nice place for a cake and coffee.

Leila McAlister's grocery shop and café off Arnold Circus, Shoreditch. You can find the best of everything, from jars of horseradish to eggs and croissants.

Lovely Japanese restaurant, secluded spot next to the canals. Amazing on sunny day

In terms of materials and form, these galleries offer so much. On an abstract and typographic level, so useful. This is a section of an altar frieze, from the Eye Temple at Tell Brak (N.E. Syria), dated 3300–3000BC. The Egyptian rooms take the tourist weight; these spaces are much quieter and amenable time spent drawing and thinking.

An excellent bookshop by Brick Lane, the interior design is incredible and the selection unexpected. A good place to get lost in!