Bao Borough
Inspired by the late-night grill establishments often populated by commuters across Asia, Taiwanese favourite BAO Borough offers a fun, flavour-packed menu and a karaoke room.
Co-founder Erchen Chang shared a recipe for prawn shia song bao: bao buns stuffed with spicy prawns, vegetables and garlic mayonnaise.
Butter Nut of London
Zoe Roberts and her team create a range of handmade, small-batch nut butters, all of which are free from palm oil, refined sugar, gluten, additives and preservatives.
Zoe shared her recipe for coconut, kiwi & lime chia pudding, a delicious, highly nutritious vegan breakfast made using ABC (almond, brazil nut, cashew) nut butter.
Comptoir Bakery
Owned by talented pastry chef Sebastien Wind, Comptoir Bakery sells a wide array of pastries and cakes, all baked fresh each day in the stall’s Bermondsey bakery.
Comptoir Bakery is one of the businesses whose surplus products are used by other traders to create something new, a theme explored in a recent blog post by Emily Gussin.
Gujarati Rasoi
Gujarati Rasoi’s vegetarian street food stall sells seasonal dishes adapted from recipes that have been passed down over many generations of the Parvais family in Gujarat, India.
Urvesh Parvais appeared on the Borough Talks podcast, talking about cultural authenticity, the importance of quality ingredients and the enduring appeal of street food.
Humble Crumble
Humble Crumble offers a selection of freshly made, seasonal fruit crumbles with a range of accompaniments, from pillowy, torched meringue to pure vanilla custard.
Founder and head baker Kim Innes is committed to sustainability, priding herself on using only the finest, ethically sourced ingredients.
Mallow
Mallow is a 100 percent plant-based, sustainable restaurant, with an ever-changing menu inspired by flavours from all over the world, made using fresh, seasonal, sustainably sourced ingredients.
If you’re taking part in Veganuary, visit our recipe pages to explore a diverse selection of plant-based dishes from top chefs and food writers.
Monmouth Coffee Company
Monmouth Coffee Company imports single-origin coffee beans from farms, estates and cooperatives around the coffee-growing world, which are skilfully roasted in nearby Bermondsey.
We explored Monmouth’s commitment to sustainability in a post about Borough Market’s coffee traders and their efforts to make a positive contribution to society.
Northfield Farm
Northfield Farm’s butchers sell high-quality meat from the McCourt family farm on the Rutland-Leicestershire border, as well as sourcing from a long-established list of like-minded producers.
Dominic McCourt spoke to Tomé Morrissy-Swan about how, in the depths of winter, warmth and comfort can come from slow cooking tough, fatty, richly flavoured cuts of meat.
Pochi
Served fresh in the Borough Market Kitchen, Pochi’s Japanese rice bowls offer a range of meat and vegetable toppings served on a pillowy bed of rice and traditional pickles.
Toppings include fried aubergine marinated in zingy soy-vinegar sauce, deep fried cauliflower with shiso furikake sprinkles and soy-ginger pork mince with Japanese mayo.
Spice Mountain
Magali Russie sources premium spices from all over the world, then draws on her extensive knowledge to create blends in her London kitchen, following culturally diverse recipes.
Magali spoke to Clare Finney about the expertise involved in selecting, sourcing, roasting and blending her spices.
