The best dessert in London
8 places
Antepliler
££Green Lanes cooking from Gaziantep, with a baklava counter that is the reason half the customers are there.
Cake & Bingsoo
£Bingsoo - shaved milk ice piled with fruit, ice cream and syrup - built for hot weather and shared between a table.
Cédric Grolet at The Berkeley
£Trompe-l'oeil fruit pastries from one of the most decorated patissiers working - the queue starts before opening and the good things sell out.
Sells out early. The queue forms before the doors open.
Chin Chin
£Ice cream frozen to order with liquid nitrogen - theatre as much as dessert, and it was doing it long before the format spread.
Lily Vanilli
£Open on Sundays for the Columbia Road flower market and largely closed the rest of the week - cakes as the reason, not the afterthought.
Sunday-led, tied to the flower market. Check before travelling midweek.
Mamasons Dirty Ice Cream
£Ube halaya ice cream in a squishy bun - Filipino sorbetes, and unlike anything else on a London ice cream list.
St John Bakery
£The custard doughnut that every other London bakery has since tried to copy, sold from a Maltby Street arch.
Violet Cakes
£Claire Ptak's Hackney bakery - the one that made the royal wedding cake, and still a small shop selling cupcakes over a counter.