Portobello Road / Golbourne Road

Antique shops one after the other line the southern end of Portobello Road on a Saturday. Then come the food stalls followed by the junk and vintage clothes stalls. My advice is to take the tube to Ladbroke Grove station and walk underneath the Westway (the motorway) as this is where all the best vintage clothes stalls are, more locals in the know and less tourists. There are also a fair number of local designers with unique inexpensive clothes on sale along with jewelery and more vintage clothes.

If you turn right onto Portobello road you’ll hit the food vendors but if you turn left you’ll find yet more vintage clothes, eventually coming to Golbourne road which is nothing but eclectic furniture shops spilling all kinds of random clutter on the street and Moroccan and Lebanese cafes, loads of them with a view of my favourite building an apartment block where the architect Erno Goldfinger looked around at the other council high rises and thought you think that’s ugly, wait and see what I can do. It’s a listed building now and one of the most sought after addresses in London.