DK Travel : London : Westminster, the South Bank and Southwark : Shopping

Westminster, the South Bank and Southwark : Shopping

Bankside Gallery

The gallery for the Royal Watercolour Society and Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers has work for sale, as well as a shop.
Borough Market

Good food from all over the country comes to this traditional covered market near Southwark Cathedral. Try some cheeses, breads, chocolate and local beer.
Gabriel’s Wharf

Shops in riverside Gabriel’s Wharf display hand-painted glassware, fashion, interiors, jewellery and ceramics.
Llewellyn Alexander

This art gallery has changing, quality exhibitions, notably in the summer.
Lower Marsh

Once London’s longest street market, stalls sell inexpensive music, clothes, hardware and food. Open mornings Mon–Fri.
Oxo Tower Wharf

Two floors are given over to designers of fashion, jewellery and interiors and “the.gallery@ oxo” paintings, photography and ceramics.
Parliamentary Bookshop

Buy the day’s political reading, plus parliamentary-related prints and other souvenirs.
South Bank

Free concerts are held at both the Royal Festival Hall (currently undergoing refurbishment) and the National Theatre. Both have shops selling books and music. Secondhand books are sold under Waterloo Bridge.
The Furniture Union

Browse through the latest in British interior design in trendy Bankside Lofts opposite Tate Modern.
Vinopolis

Wines can be tried out on a tour of this exhibition of viticulture, and the shop stocks over a thousand varieties.