"It may only be open Thursday to Sunday, but this is London’s best chocolate shop — no ifs, no buts. Like a Joanne Harris novel come to life off Bellenden Road, Melange is owned by Isabelle Alaya; a self-taught chocolatier and founder of The Chocolate Museum in Brixton (who’s very generous with the samples). She’s put together a range of 15 signature bars: six dark, six milk and three white, featuring mind-expanding flavour combinations like raspberry and rosemary, coffee and aniseed and white pepper and vanilla. The hot chocolate regularly tops best-of lists, and the white chocolate blondies are worth crossing town for." - Emma Hughes