5 Excellent Reasons to Visit Clapham, according to Vogue

Clapham has essentially been crowned the most stylish neighbourhood in London thanks to a glowing review in Vogue which lists the myriad reasons to make a pilgrimage to our patch.

Vogue may have deemed Inferno's worth a miss, but we know Margot Robbie's feelings on it (strong and in the loves it camp). Though a handful of local spots went unnoticed, Clapham Nub News think Vogue, being an okay arbiter on these sorts of things, can be forgiven an oversight here or there.

This story is on all that Vogue loves about Clapham.

Clapham's food shops

While Northcote Road has boasted its destination greengrocer Bayley & Sage for several years now, for top-quality fresh produce and store cupboard ingredients there have been slim supermarket pickings over on the Lambeth side of Clapham Common. That all changed with the recent arrival of Trude's Grocery to 10 The Pavement. Vogue visits for its heirloom Isle of Wight tomatoes and homemade blue-corn tortillas and singles out Venn Street Market and a Clapham Nub News favourite, zero-waste store The Source Bulk Foods.

Clapham's literary history

The rich literary legacy is free for all to see thanks to the blue plaques commemorating Clapham's creatives. Novelist Graham Greene lived at 14 Clapham Northside and Clapham Common is at the heart of his work, The End of the Affair, narrated by Clapham-based protagonist Maurice. Vogue suggested paying a visit to St Mary's, described at the climax of the novel as "the dark church at the corner of Park Road – a Roman Catholic church full of plaster statues".

Clapham's buried treasure

Over on the border with Wandsworth and Battersea, Clapham is blessed with not one, but two Royal Trinity Hospice shops. Famed for their sale of some of the best pre-loved fashion pieces a shop could over, they have single-handedly raised the sartorial standard of charity shop stock to the bar of a west-end boutique. Vogue pays particular tribute to Northcote Road Antiques Market: "a bizarre Aladdin's Cave of vintage furniture and bric-a-brac: antique chandeliers hang from the roof beams, while every surface is topped with quirky knick-knacks that range from silver Georgian teapots to plastic '50s figurines."

Clapham's neighbourhood restaurants

Vogue, like so many of us, lamented the pandemic-forced closure of loved local restaurant The Dairy. For those in the know it is not all doom and gloom, since just around the corner is Sorella, run by the same south London couple behind The Dairy, Robin and Sarah Hill. An Italian restaurant with a menu guided by seasonal British produce, Vogue says to "start your meal with cicchetti (the truffle arancini are predictably delicious) and a round of Negronis". The dessert menu is to die for but in a nod to our local gelataria, Vogue's advice is to nip around the corner to Nardulli's.

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