Food Stores

For the freshest sashimi-grade fish, the Uber chef needs look no further than this store, offering more than 100 types of fish and shellfish.

This pretty pink or blue tin is filled with a scrummy biscuits and has a little secret. Open it up and it will play "Happy Birthday" - what an lovely surprise!

Spice up meats with this mouth-watering condiment that is a fine example of the organic products from Daylesford and available online through Ocado.

This delicious award-winning treacle tart is made from organic all-butter short-crust pastry and filled with rich golden syrup and a hint of lemon juice.

This spacious Kentish Town food hall is one of the few places in London where you can buy freekeh, a roasted young green wheat. The store is home to all sorts of unusual ingredients from Lebanon, Greece, Turkey and Italy. It is also renowned for its halal butcher.

With freshly imported fruit and vegetables from Thailand, the adventurous cook will find a plethora of exotic ingredients at this Paignton shop or for nationwide delivery. The delicious list includes mangosteen, acacia leaf, Thai bitter melon, holy basil, curry pastes and noodles.

Founded in 1936 in Brick Lane, this Bangladeshi grocery still does a brisk trade in an extensive range of fresh fruit and veg, halal meats, exotic herbs and spices and Bangladeshi fish.

There are now a dozen TFC supermarkets in the London area, selling fresh fruit and vegetables flown in weekly from Turkey, Greece and Cyprus, as well as divine fresh bread, baklava and pastries.