LONDON LOVES: Coffee, Currency and Curiosity at Foreign Exchange News

Behind a curved glass counter on a quiet Bayswater corner, someone is calmly exchanging euros for pounds. A few steps away, a barista pours a flat white while a customer flips through a Kinfolk. At first glance it feels like an oddly charming scene in an arty movie (and that’s exactly the point!)

Welcome to Foreign Exchange News, a café, newsagent and working bureau de change that has quietly become one of the most intriguing new spots on Leinster Terrace. Founder and designer Gabriel Chipperfield describes the idea simply: “It’s about being fun and exciting. I want people to come in and say: ‘What’s this?’”

LONDON LOVESKerry Baker23 March 2026Hospitality, foreign exchange, cafe, bureau de change

LONDON LOVES: Shaken, Stirred and Back in Vogue: London’s Top Martinis Right Now

Greenway Associates has recently been appointed to provide cost planning and quantity surveying services for the renewal of the Barbican Centre, one of London’s most ambitious cultural redevelopments, now progressing through RIBA Stage 4. The scope includes all of the Centre’s hospitality spaces, including its Bars - spots where people gather and connect before and after performances. Having supported hospitality projects for over two decades, many of the bars we have worked on remain memorable and importantly, still in very good service

LONDON LOVESKerry Baker23 March 2026Barbican, Martini Bar, Hospitality

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