One of our first ever posts, three years ago, featured then then-imminent opening of Sendero Coffee at the junction of Lavender Hill and Queenstown Road.  The combination of quality coffee sourced directly by the team, comfortable sofas, pastries and light catering, occasional canine companions and latterly late sessions on Fridays and Saturdays in winter, proved to be a success beyond all expectations!

It has continued to work so well that Sendero are about to open their second coffee shop, a little further along Queenstown Road at Battersea Exchange – at 37 Patcham Terrace, SW8 4EX – which is maybe better known locally as the new development in the tangle of railway tracks between Queenstown Road station and Battersea Park station.  It’s the smallish unit directly facing Queenstown Road in the yellow square on our photo above – the brand new building next to the rather scruffy looking corner that somehow escaped the surrounding whirlwind of redevelopment.  Thanks to a traffic-free road heading under the railway arches, there’s also space for some outdoor seating in the summer.  

It’s bound to be popular. The area round the new shop has been a bit of a good-coffee desert ever since Coffee Affair sadly closed their shop inside Queenstown Road station (a few years after successfully navigating what had at times seemed insurmountable planning and leasing issues to open it).  Work has been underway at the new spot for a good couple of weeks now, and we understand everything should be up and running by the weekend  [Weekend update: They’re now open for business!] – do drop in to say hello…