Carpo Diem!

You'll go nuts for Carpo, or rather you’ll go to Carpo for nuts! This new Greek deli come coffee shop opened just a week ago on Piccadilly. The shop is beautiful it looks like this year’s harvest has come early, with baskets and bags over flowing with dried fruit, nuts, chocolate, honey and coffee. A bit too healthy for you? Well go for a visit, the staff are very welcoming and allow you to try everything and once you do you’ll understand this not just a place to buy your rabbit food. From savoury to sweet all Carpo's wares have fantastic flavours. The Spanish corn nuts make the perfect bar snack, the Thai dragon fruit look amazing, the dried mango is fab. However the dried Greek nectarines are my favourite, taking me back to heady summer holidays in the med. The flavour is the same as biting into a fresh nectarine. So good in fact that I may have eaten 300g in the past three days!

Your local supermarket cannot compare to these flavours, the fruits come from the best growing areas and dried quickly capturing the sweetness and flavour. Also Carpo don’t seem to use sulphites which nearly every other producer does. Sulphites can cause allergic reactions and it is refreshing to find somewhere that does not use them. From an economic point of view Carpo is actually better for your pocket by the gram than the scandalous chain supermarket prices.

 Carpo is a very welcoming shop, with staff handing out chocolate samples and the aroma of coffee in the air, it is a great addition to the Piccadilly food scene. Carpo has come to London from Athens where it has had success through the Greek economy to sell us some amazing products and I think we should lend them our support, even if you do get addicted to dried nectarines in the process.