I'm <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.instagram.com/yilmazmustafa/?utm_source=aposto" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Mustafa</a>, but friends call me Mus.If I hadn’t become a chef, I'd have liked to be a footballer.People around me say cooking is my biggest talent, but if you ask me, it’s cleaning.When I meet someone, I often find myself sharing about how I always order the second cheapest wine on the menu.I live in Camden and work in Shoreditch. My heart belongs to İzmir, where I can be my inner child.For me, the neighborhood ia all about childhood; it's that place where I feel at home, surrounded by friendly and familiar faces.In the neighborhood, I'm the go-to person for a good old barbecue.To me, a tourist means an explorer and a local means someone settled.Only true tourists know: Leicester Square is London’s biggest tourist trap.And only real Londoners recognize the sounds of two foxes fighting.

Soli

The other half of Dükkan, Mustafa, or just Mus for short. For him, the neighborhood means childhood and familiar faces. To find him in the neighborhood, just follow the smell of barbecue.

Mustafa Yılmaz

Those who set up the tables we've missed, turning distant homes into their own "dükkans" with shared longings and the universal language of food. Ali and Mustafa's Dükkan in London tells a tale of migration, cuisine, and community.

A "Dükkan" in Shoreditch

<h3 dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Let's meet</h3>My name is <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.instagram.com/eftihia/?utm_source=aposto" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Eftihia Stefanidi</a> and you can try to pronounce it correctly…Currently, I’m the creative director of <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.instagram.com/house_of_shila/?utm_source=aposto" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">House of Shila</a>. If I wasn’t doing that I could have been a perpetual traveler.According to my friends and family, I'm always at finding the right spots and connecting people, and if you ask me, they have a point.I’ve lived in Athens, London, New York, Cape Town and Prague. The cities that I’ve lived in so far impacted my creative practices because they taught me new perspectives.I currently live in the city of Athens, but island life is in my heart.When I come across places with soul, I feel I belong there.If I am not at home, you can find me between <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.instagram.com/shila_athens/?utm_source=aposto" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Shila</a> and <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.instagram.com/mona_athens/?utm_source=aposto" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Mona</a>, or by the seaside.<h3 dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">What's up?</h3>I have recently found inspiration in my visits to Paris and London where I saw some poignant art shows.&nbsp;The future projects I am currently thinking of are House of Shila’s creative studio, our new magazine, and the cultural programming for the year, which is rather exciting.<h3 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">On Athens</h3>I complain the most about the service in Athens, yet I also most appreciate the hospitality and genuine care between the locals even if that sounds like a contradiction.Mr. Mitsos of koutouki (traditional underground tavern) Diporto is a character you must meet in Psirri because he represents an era that is soon going to be obsolete.Only a true Athenian would know how to navigate driving in Athens.Editor's note:&nbsp;You will discover Eftihia Stefanidi's insights, coming soon in SOLİ's inaugural print issue this Spring.

We meet Eftihia Stefanidi, a perpetual traveler and the creative director of Mona Athens and House of Shila.

Eftihia Stefanidi

<h2 dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Kyra Santiago&nbsp;</h2>My name is Kyra, my closest friends and family call me&nbsp;Ky. My name only has 4 letters so not a lot of options.&nbsp;I’m currently living in Bow, and have been here for the last 3 years. London has been my home for the last 12 years, but I actually grew up in Hong Kong and am ethnically Filipino. I feel extremely privileged to have been able to experience a variety of cultures, and I think that’s what makes me endlessly curious about people’s stories.I’d say I’m an expert in&nbsp;finding the little places in my neighborhood :). I’m always on the lookout for intimate spots with a unique story to tell.According to my friends, I’m the best at finding unique spots&nbsp;in London. I’d like to think that’s true, but I suppose only time will tell with Little Places.Only a true Londoner would know that a pint under £6 is “cheap” these days.&nbsp;<h2 dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Jason Ford</h2>My name is&nbsp;Jason&nbsp;but most people end up calling me Jas.I am living in Bow&nbsp;but I grew up in the suburbs of South England near Portsmouth. The home in my heart is Copenhagen — there’s something that the Scandis are just doing right.According to my friends, I'm the best at IT, but if you ask me, I’m great at finding solutions to problems.As an avid cyclist, I am an expert in knowing all the backroads in my neighborhood.Only a true Londoner would know you never get coffee from Pret.

Meet Kyra & Jason. 

Kyra & Jason 

Local: Bradley Zero. Neighborhood: Peckham. Usually seen at: <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.jumbipeckham.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s; text-decoration-skip: objects; -webkit-user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Jumbi</a>.<h2 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85098); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Let’s meet</h2>I live in South East London&nbsp;but I’m from Leeds, with Roots in Dominica.I have recently found inspiration at&nbsp;Orii Jam. The most exciting movement of young creative people in London. The future of London is in safe hands.After living decades in London, I just discovered&nbsp;the joys of riding in a black Cab. The drivers are walking encyclopedias of the city.My favorite hangout for a live gig is&nbsp;<a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.koko.co.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s; text-decoration-skip: objects; -webkit-user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Koko Camden</a>.A Londoner you must meet&nbsp;Hannah Jones. Because she is a renaissance woman whose diverse output spans broadcasting, conducting and running an orchestra, live performance, exhibitions, film, writing and opera and she deserves so much more credit for it.Only a true Londoner would know the difference between the overground and the train.A fast track for a fast-paced city&nbsp;cool down the pace with a nature walk through Sydenham Woods all the way up to the Horniman Museum.<h2 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85098); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">About music, Jumbi and Peckham</h2>This city is known for its brimming cultural heritage in music, do you believe it’s still relevant in today’s London?100% — more than ever. London is a melting pot of so many different cultures and in the last few years, people from underrepresented cultures have felt emboldened to celebrate their own music and recontextualize it for today. It’s so inspiring and exciting to see. London is constantly giving birth to new movements and I feel it leads the way in Europe.What is a listening bar, how is Jumbi redefining the way we hear, feel the music?A listening bar is a place &nbsp;popularized in Japan where you go to quietly listen to recorded music. Talking isn’t allowed and you order via notes on a piece of paper. Jumbi isn’t a listening bar — It’s a hi-if rum shack. We celebrate the sounds and flavors of the Caribbean and we play music on a hi-fi sound system — but there’s no etiquette around the experience: dance, scream, sing along be moved by it. It’s as much about the music as it is the people. We just have one turntable so that the selectors slow it down and don’t feel inhibited by genres, rhythm or pace — we invite people to listen to each song at a time, more deeply but the Jumbi spirit is mischievous, disruptive and playful.Why is Jumbi located in Peckham, how the neighborhood connects with Jumbi’s soul?This has been my home for 15 years. It couldn’t be anywhere else. Jumbi’s soul is Peckham, and much like it’s namesake folkloric Spirit — that spirit is influenced by it’s journey from Africa to the new world and now back to London.Do you have a favorite record shop? What makes this place unique?Alans in North Finchley is part key cutting shop, part record store, run by one man: Alan. It quietly has some of the best records in the city.In this city, what do you complain about the most?Rent.

Local: Bradley Zero. Neighborhood: Peckham. Usually seen at: Jumbi

Bradley Zero

<img src="https://images.aposto.com/2023/3/1/1680517018559.jpeg" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" width="550" ratio="0.76" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">Miami Open• &nbsp;Daniil Medvedev rakibi Jannik Sinner’ı 7-5 6-3 ile yenerek Miami Açık’ta ilk şampiyonluğuna ulaştı. Medvedev, 2023 sezonunda Rotterdam, Doha ve Dubai’nin ardından 4. şampiyonluğunu elde etmiş oldu.&nbsp;<ul fr-original-style="padding-inline-start: 20px;" style="padding-inline-start: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; list-style-position: inside; box-sizing: border-box;"><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Dünyanın 11 numarası olan Jannik Sinner, yarı finalde seri başı Carlos Alcaraz karşısında galibiyet alarak finale yükselmişti.</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">İstatistikler:&nbsp;ATP sıralamasında dünya 4 numarasında yer alan tenisçi son 26 maçta 25 galibiyet kazandı ve Miami Açık'ta kariyerinin 5. Masters zaferini elde etti. Medvedev, 1981'de Ivan Lendl'den bu yana, son dörtte Karen Khachanov'u yenerek art arda beşinci ATP finaline ulaşan ilk oyuncu oldu.&nbsp;</li></ul>Medvedev'in 19 ATP tekler şampiyonluğu 19 farklı etkinlikte geldi.&nbsp;<ul fr-original-style="padding-inline-start: 20px;" style="padding-inline-start: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; list-style-position: inside; box-sizing: border-box;"><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sydney&nbsp;</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Winston-Salem</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tokyo</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sofia</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Cincinnati</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">St. Petersburg</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Shanghai</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Paris</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">London</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Marseille</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Mallorca</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Toronto</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">NYC</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Los Cabos</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Vienna</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Rotterdam</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Doha</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Dubai</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Miami</li></ul><h3 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Maç sonu açıklamalar</h3><ul fr-original-style="padding-inline-start: 20px;" style="padding-inline-start: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; list-style-position: inside; box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sinner:&nbsp;Kendimi biraz hasta hissettim ama denemek için sahaya çıkmaya çalıştık. Ne yazık ki bugün benim günüm değildi. Daniil'den hiçbir şey almak istemiyorum. İnanılmaz hizmet etti ve cesurca oynadı. Açıkçası, o dünyanın en iyi oyuncularından biri.</li></ul>

Punto 

Daniil Medvedev rakibi Jannik Sinner’ı 7-5 6-3 ile yenerek Miami Açık’ta ilk şampiyonluğuna ulaştı. Medvedev, 2023 sezonunda Rotterdam, Doha ve Dubai’nin ardından 4. şampiyonluğunu elde etmiş oldu.&nbsp;<ul fr-original-style="padding-inline-start: 20px;" style="padding-inline-start: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; list-style-position: inside; box-sizing: border-box;"><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Dünyanın 11 numarası olan Jannik Sinner, yarı finalde seri başı Carlos Alcaraz karşısında galibiyet alarak finale yükselmişti.</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">İstatistikler:&nbsp;ATP sıralamasında dünya 4 numarasında yer alan tenisçi son 26 maçta 25 galibiyet kazandı ve Miami Open'da kariyerinin 5. Masters zaferini elde etti. Medvedev, 1981'de Ivan Lendl'den bu yana, son dörtte Karen Khachanov'u yenerek art arda beşinci ATP finaline ulaşan ilk oyuncu oldu.&nbsp;</li></ul>Medvedev'in 19 ATP tekler şampiyonluğu 19 farklı etkinlikte geldi.&nbsp;<ul fr-original-style="padding-inline-start: 20px;" style="padding-inline-start: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; list-style-position: inside; box-sizing: border-box;"><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sydney&nbsp;</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Winston-Salem</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Tokyo</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sofia</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Cincinnati</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">St. Petersburg</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Shanghai</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Paris</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">London</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Marseille</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Mallorca</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Toronto</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">NYC</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Los Cabos</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Vienna</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Rotterdam</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Doha</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Dubai</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Miami</li></ul><img src="https://images.aposto.com/2023/3/1/1680515473140.jpeg" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" ratio="1.60" width="550" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">WTATek kadınlar finali:&nbsp;Miami Açık tek kadınlar finalinde, Petra Kvitova rakibi Elena Rybakina’yı 1 saat 42 dakika süren mücadelenin ardından 7-6 ve 6-2'lik setlerle mağlup etti. Kvitova, Miami'de ilk, kariyerinin ise 30. şampiyonluğunu kazandı.<ul fr-original-style="padding-inline-start: 20px;" style="padding-inline-start: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; list-style-position: inside; box-sizing: border-box;"><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Serena Williams ve Victoria Azarenka’nın ardından, Simona Halep ile birlikte 2009’dan bu yana en çok WTA 1000 şampiyonluğu yaşayan 3. isim oldu.</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">33 yaşındaki iki Grand Slam galibi Kvitova, kazandığı 1.26 milyon dolarlık (1.02 milyon sterlin) para ödülüne ek olarak kazandığı 1.000 sıralama puanıyla Eylül 2021'den bu yana ilk kez dünyanın ilk 10'u arasına geri dönecek.</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Bir adım geriden:&nbsp;Geçen ay Indian Wells'te şampiyon olduktan sonra Sunshine Double'ı kovalayan Wimbledon şampiyonu Rybakina'nın 13 maçlık galibiyet serisi son verdi.&nbsp;</li></ul>

ABD'nin Miami kentinde düzenlenen Masters 1000 turnuvasında kazanan Daniil Medvedev ve Petra Kvitova oldu.

Miami Açık Finali'nde şampiyon: Medvedev ve Kvitova

<ul fr-original-style="padding-inline-start: 20px;" style="padding-inline-start: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; list-style-position: inside; box-sizing: border-box;"><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">I live in London but I am from Milan in my heart. I miss Italian architecture and dolce vita AKA easy living. Given my mixed background —my parents are Albanian and past cities I've lived in Milan, Istanbul, and now London— I feel that I still need to find the place where I want to settle. So far, NYC and Barcelona are on the top.</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">I have recently found inspiration at &nbsp;The Castel Cinema which is a beautifully crafted little cinema in Homerton. The bar makes you feel like you are in the 1920s (it opened in 1913!). Super retro cool vibe with a diverse movie selection, some of which are even played in 16mm format.</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">After living 6 years in London, I have just discovered: that I love coffee! I was never into coffee back in Italy as it was too strong, usually, they only drink espresso, and only here I started drinking coffee thanks to latté, flat white, dirty chai, etc.&nbsp;</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">I love walking around&nbsp;Victoria Park with Angela (my partner) and Cliff (our lovely dog). It's a wide and open space, with plenty of greenery, little ponds, and secret gardens.</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">I mostly shop vintage. A sustainable shop I like to cruise around: Paper Dress Vintage.&nbsp;</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">A Londoner you must meet is Lawrence from Hackney Bread Kitchen. He is a professor who bakes at the back of his house in Hackney out of passion. The best focaccia you'll ever eat in the whole UK (and I can say this because I'm Italian). Not only he's super friendly, and into movies (he reminds me of David Lynch), but the passion that he puts in what he bakes is truly inspiring and deserves all the credits for it!</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Only a true Londoner would know where to get good coffee on a rainy day and. One of my favourite local hangouts is: Dark Arts Coffee Shop.</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">In this erratic city, I complain the most about passive-aggressiveness.&nbsp;It's still something I can't understand and don't tolerate, but besides that, even the weather is not that bad, so I try not to complain too much.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">When I want to escape big city life:&nbsp;I go to Margate, a half plus one hour's train ride from London. Seems a bit like a copy of East London but more chilled and less busy. Lots of unique vintage shops, antiques, great food, and cute coffee and you get an amazing view of cliffs and sea.</li></ul>

Meet Nivi. 

Nivi Jasa

<h2 dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Can culture(s) coalesce(s) through marketplaces?</h2>After talking to Nivi, this is one of the sentences I underline amongst my notes: "I think the East offers more diverse, from Nepalese to Ethiopian, Vietnamese to Chinese cuisines; West feels quite posh and still good but more classic; South has always been more Caribbean and Jamaican."<img src="https://images.aposto.com/2023/2/3/1679469925847.jpeg" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" width="550" ratio="0.67" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">Can culture(s) coalesce(s) through marketplaces?<hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;">According to John Talbot in an article he wrote on <a fr-original-style="" href="https://londontopia.net/culture/a-guide-to-londons-historical-ethnic-neighborhoods/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Londontopia</a> in 2020, 44% of the city’s population represents various ethnicities and over 300 languages are spoken. <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.trustforlondon.org.uk/data/geography-population/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Trust for London</a> confirms this by saying 41% of Londoners were not born in the UK. Talbot describes in the same article that "It’s been observed that Pakistani Londoners have largely settled in the neighborhoods of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, and Newham; West Acton is home to a Japanese community; Tooting represents one of the largest collections of Indian residents and restaurants and Turkish and Greek communities made Enfield home. Brixton became an enclave for Jamaicans following World War II as nearly half a million Jamaicans and Caribbean natives moved to the United Kingdom." Today, we can perceive a neighborhood’s peculiar culture through plaques on the walls or storefronts, murals and graffiti, the pungent smell of spices, the tunes coming from instruments, the colors worn, and the words exchanged.&nbsp;In a metropolitan like London, where settled diasporas, migration and ethnic communities shape and form the everyday culture, can market spaces be used as a better tool in order to blend cultures together, and adapt each other's customs, habits, and rituals more easier? Now, instead of what exists, I’m noting down what is missing from the Democratic Weekend Nation of Broadway Market.<a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnO_KU2fKtI" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Keida - Stand For Something</a>&nbsp;playing on the record playerMojito with lots of mints.Ital with ackee, fried plantain, mango and pineapple &nbsp;Andrew Salkey&nbsp;Ska.

<h2 dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.facing-heaven.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Facing Heaven</a></h2>Cuisine: Reborn Sichuanese food concept from LA chef Julian DenisInfluenced by Cantonese, Yunnan and Shaanxi cuisines, Facing Heaven is a vegan’s go-to place. Especially before and after a long night out. Garlic and sesame oil “spanked cucumber”, purple gong bao broccoli at the center, dan dan noodles in front, msg margarita or organic wine in the hand. What else could you ask for?&nbsp;Where:&nbsp;1A Bayford Street E8 3SEHeads-up: It’s named after Sichuanese "facing heaven" pepper. This means hot, spicy food all over.&nbsp;<hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.instagram.com/pockets_uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Pocket’s</a></h2>Cuisine: Falafel aka Middle Eastern street food⁣⁣It’s pretty rare you can convince a hungry, hang-over Londoner to wait in queue for food for more than ten minutes. But that’s exactly what Pockets do on any given Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Starting cooking these delicacies at Oxford, followed by Chatsworth Road Market, they made (lucky for us) their way into Netil Market in November 2020. And since their debut, there is no single day or hour we can bypass the queue to attain the ultimate goal: falafel pita. It’s not just the falafel, it’s the union of fluffy pita bread, crunchy green falafels, the classified sauce we finally dared to ask and learned was mango-based, hummus, tahini, garnishing and the final touch: boiled, roasted, fried potato slice.Where: Netil Market, Thursday-Sunday from 11:00 a.m.Heads-up:&nbsp; It takes about 2 minutes to layer impeccably one falafel pita. Yes, we timed it! Be prepared to wait in line for about 40 minutes.<hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.okko-uk.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">OKKO</a></h2>Cuisine: Izakaya. Pacific Japanese plates from Hakata to HawaiiIf you are lucky enough to find a table outside of OKKO on a sunny London afternoon. Just keep it and keep the food coming. Our suggestion is to start with mixed pickles (including daikon) followed by Crunchy vegan roll, homemade gyoza and ramen accompanied with a nice bottle of sake of course. The lunch would turn into dinner and before you know it you are ordering Yamazaki 12 years. &nbsp;Where: 10-12 Broadway Market Mews London E8 4TSHeads-up: Okko is open every day, between 12:00-10:00 p.m. on Saturdays and 12:00-9:00 p.m. on Sundays, non-stop.&nbsp;&nbsp;<hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><a fr-original-style="" href="https://thirdculturedeli.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Third Culture Deli</a></h2>Cuisine:&nbsp;Italian American deli classics with a plant-based twistThe only place where you can have Rueben made from seitan seasoned with Russian sauce and American style I am Nut Ok cheese; Caprese using Bluffalo Notzarella in focaccia seasoned with green pesto and you can also buy from the deli counter to keep company for your wine and dine nights in.&nbsp;Where: 29 Broadway Market, London E8 4PHHeads-up: If you time yourself well, you can have corn chowder soup and arancini balls with a cocktail. &nbsp;<hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><a fr-original-style="" href="https://marestreetmarket.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Mare Street Market</a></h2>Cuisine: Diner meets café meets tapasA hip, leafy market, co-work space with shared tables during the day, loud and dance music by night. To some, this is the ultimate weekday hang-out where you can listen to Stranger Than Paradise tunes, to others, a brunch spot with long-time not seen friends. One thing is certain: Order a chipotle black bean burger w/ white cabbage slaw, sriracha, and pickles accompanied by fries.&nbsp;Where: 117 Mare St, London E8 4RUHeads-up: If you are looking for quiet, I need to have a couple of meetings online or IRL kind of co-working place, Mare Street is not it. The volume of the music and conversation is always up here. İdeal for people who are looking for inspiration.&nbsp;<hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;"><h3 dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">Bonus:</h3><h2 dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"><a fr-original-style="" href="https://theapproachtavern.co.uk" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">The Approach Tavern</a></h2>Cuisine:&nbsp;PubWe are no longer in the E8 zone but there is a valid reason for that. Burger, chips and a touch of culture. Situated about 10-12 minutes from Broadway Market, this is one of the neighborhood local pubs where you can meet people at the bar and chat. Beer battered artichokes, and vegan black bean burger w/ coconut cream, mint, salad, “brioche” bun &amp; fries is our selection from the menu.Where: 47 Approach Rd, Bethnal Green, London E2 9LYHeads-up: The Approach Tavern has a gallery on the second floor. Check out the program.&nbsp;

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