Records & coffee, Ladbroke Grove W10

Line drawing of a record player, a leaning record sleeve and a cup of coffee on a table

Racket is a record shop that pours coffee, or a coffee bar that sells records. New and used vinyl, espresso at the counter, and a listening corner that nobody’s in a hurry to leave.

Open late Fridays and Saturdays with DJs, and maybe a little bit of dancing.

Opening hours

On the house label

Racket Sessions Vol. 1 on 12-inch vinyl Racket Sessions Vol. 1 on 7-inch vinyl

Sessions Vol. 1

Four tracks cut live on the shop floor after closing, by the people who play our Friday nights. Pressed once, in a run of three hundred.

12-inch LP and 7-inch single. Order online, collect from the counter.

Shop the record

What’s on the decks?

Friday listening nights, new arrivals and whoever’s behind the counter this week.

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Someone in a striped shirt at a window table, seen through reflections
Sauce bottles and a sugar pot on a tray by the window
A plate on a tiled serving hatch
A film camera and an espresso on the corner of a white table
Stools and small tables in a shaded arcade

First dibs.

New arrivals, listening nights and the odd early opening.