Brick Lane runs through the heart of London's Bangladeshi community and is the city's most atmospheric street market on Sunday mornings. The street and its surrounding lanes fill with vintage clothing, antiques, vinyl, street food, and the general atmosphere of a neighbourhood market that still serves a real community rather than being purely curated.
The Beigel Bake at 159 Brick Lane (open 24 hours) sells salt beef beigels that are one of London's great cheap pleasures — the shop has been there since 1974 and the queue at 3am on a Saturday is not unusual. The surrounding streets are home to the Bangladeshi restaurants that made Brick Lane famous, though the quality varies considerably now.