London — Marylebone & Chiltern Street

The village London keeps for itself: an Edwardian bookshop under skylights, a walk-in cheese room, ribbons by the metre, a 1900 deli in white coats, and the little street that quietly became the best-dressed address in Britain — ending in Selfridge’s palace.

1. 0:00 — Daunt Books 83–84 Marylebone High Street
   Begin under the skylights, 1912 — travel books shelved by country; buy the tote, everyone does, it’s earned.
2. 0:35 — La Fromagerie 2–6 Moxon Street
   Into the walk-in cheese room — raw-milk wheels ripening on site; ask, taste, be converted.
3. 1:00 — VV Rouleaux 102 Marylebone Lane
   Down the crooked lane: a theatre of ribbons and millinery flowers — the costume world’s open secret.
4. 1:20 — Paul Rothe & Son 35 Marylebone Lane
   Four generations of Rothes in white coats since 1900 — take the salt-beef sandwich and a jar for later.
5. 1:50 — John Simons 49 Chiltern Street
   Onto the little street: the man who brought Ivy to Britain and named the Harrington — modernist scripture since 1955.
6. 2:10 — Mouki Mou 29 Chiltern Street
   Three intimate floors chosen with one impeccable eye — the concept store as a private apartment.
7. 2:30 — Trunk Clothiers 8 Chiltern Street
   The shop that made the street an address — Japan, Italy and Scandinavia edited into one calm room.
8. 3:00 — Selfridges 400 Oxford Street
   Finale in Harry Gordon’s 1909 palace — ‘the customer is always right’ was coined behind these columns.

The Chiltern Firehouse’s doorway is worth a glance even without a reservation; Monocle’s café and shop sit around the corner, and the Wallace Collection — free, gilded, five minutes away — is the correct place to rest the bags.