Knife sharpening
Leave your knives with us and collect them properly sharp.
Our Balham High Road shop.
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Getting here
Come out of the tube and you'll see the main high street. Season is a five minute walk on the right.
Go straight and to the right out of the station, down Balham high street. We are a five minute walk on the right, just as the road bends round to the right.
Services
Leave your knives with us and collect them properly sharp.
Monmouth coffee, ground to your brew method while you wait. Espresso, filter or cafetière.

My dad was a freelance cameraman, travelled the world learning about local cuisines as he went, and was particularly fond of Japanese and Middle Eastern cooking. We often cooked together; everything from sushi to experimenting with things like harissa meatballs. Those times have influenced me greatly – the joy of getting the balance of flavours right. I am rather partial to a shakshuka, although a good Sunday roast is hard to beat!

My roasties disappear before the gravy's cold. My Victoria sponge gets requested by name - the only review that counts. Traybake most nights: chicken and chorizo with rice, or a chocolate bread and butter pudding people fight over. None of it complicated, all of it made with care. Which is why I steer customers toward the pan that'll survive twenty years of it - not the one that just photographs well.