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ny Londoner with a radar for a regenerated railway arch—the good ones receive quite a bit of Insta-attention—will have ambled through Bermondsey’s (), a bunting-slung strip of food stalls sandwiched between a Victorian brick-built rail viaduct and a row of terrace houses. Weekends in this energetically crammed alley are a celebration of the British capital’s most successful small-scale culinary businesses. It’s where you go if you’re craving a slow-batch gin, an authentic German sausage, freshly baked dark-chocolate fudge brownies, or all of the above. The smell of fermenting sourdough wafts in the air and buskers keep feet tapping under tables teetering with drinks. When you take a look

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