East London - with journalist and musician Naomi Larsson Piñeda

Naomi Larsson Piñeda is an award-winning British-Chilean journalist and musician. By day she's deputy features editor at media platform Hyphen, with previous roles at gal-dem and the Guardian. By night she performs as Naomi in Blue – a soulful, intimately moving singer-songwriter whose cross-cultural roots inform her deeply personal songwriting. Her debut single Naive is out now.

1. Where do you rest your head?

East London.

2. What's something amazing about your area that only the locals know about?

The Oyster Shack and Seafood Bar is worth the walk through Epping Forest. You can walk up from the flats in Walthamstow through Highams Park and Chingford, and eventually you get to a little shack next to a pub in the middle of the forest. It's the best fish and seafood I've eaten in this country – and for that reason it gets very busy at peak times. You can always get a pint from the pub while you wait in the queue.

3. Where's your favourite local spot for a cheap bite to eat?

Not exactly cheap, but Mini Hiba – the little Palestinian restaurant on Wood Street in Walthamstow – is wonderful. Especially the hummus.

4. Any other local businesses you'd like to shout about?

Chocolatine on Wood Street makes the best pastries around, and the people who work there are so lovely. Walthamstow Trades Hall is another absolute gem – they run an iconic karaoke night, and it's one of the few places you can still get a pint for under a fiver (if you're a member).

5. Where's your favourite free place to visit in the city?

Even after so long, I still love the walk over the Millennium Bridge to Tate Modern – to sit and have a coffee in the bar and then wander around the galleries.

6. What would your perfect no-spend London day entail?

First, coffee in bed. In an ideal version of this day I'd cycle to a part of the city I haven't been to before – but really I'd probably just flop around at home. Late afternoon would be spent at the Barbican until the sun goes down, with a picnic and drinks by the ponds.

7. As a singer-songwriter, where are your favourite places to perform (and attend) gigs in London?

Moth Club is one of my favourite venues, both to play and to see gigs – they consistently book great bands. The Shacklewell Arms is always fun and puts on a lot of free gigs too.

I'll always have a soft spot for The Betsey Trotwood – I used to put on gigs there, and they're incredible supporters of grassroots music. The singer-songwriter night the Lantern Society has been running there for years, and it's a lovely, safe space to try out new music. Green Note is another great spot for folk music – probably one of the few venues where you're actively encouraged to sit and listen, as they ask you not to talk during performances. It's also the first place I played as Naomi in Blue.

8. Where did the inspiration for your new single, Naive, come from?

Naive is my musings on the world, the state it's in, how scary that can be, and wondering how things were and could have been. It's an existential song, but also quite personal – you can read the lyrics as reflecting a past relationship too.

9. If you were Mayor of London, what's the first thing you'd change about the city?

I'd make transport free for everyone – and maybe bring back Eat Out to Help Out, paid for by the billionaires who live here.

10. In three words, what makes someone a Londoner?

Anyone and everyone.

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