London — Places to eat
Free museums, a pint at the pub, hood up for the drizzle
- Dishoom Covent Garden — An old Bombay café recreated in the West End; the queue moves
- Flat Iron Covent Garden — A £15 steak: breathing room in London prices
- Poppies Fish & Chips Soho — Fish and chips in a 1950s chip-shop time capsule
- Blacklock Soho — Sunday roasts over coals, gravy topped up for free
- Borough Market — A market under the railway arches: lunch on your feet
- Hawksmoor Seven Dials — British beef over charcoal in an old brewery basement
- BAO Soho — Fist-sized Taiwanese buns, about £5 each, and a queue
- Padella Borough Market — Hand-rolled pasta in the window, mostly under £17
- Duck & Waffle — Open 24/7 on the 40th floor: duck on a waffle with a view
- Gordon Ramsay Bread Street Kitchen & Bar, St Paul's — Gordon Ramsay's beef Wellington, opposite St Paul's
- The Churchill Arms, Kensington — A 1750 pub smothered in flowers, with a Thai kitchen inside
- Monmouth Coffee Covent Garden — London specialty coffee since 1978
- sketch – The Gallery Afternoon Tea — Afternoon tea in an art room, egg-pod toilets included
- Fortnum & Mason – The Diamond Jubilee Tea Salon — The tea salon the Queen opened; a safe first afternoon tea
- Bread Ahead Borough Market — Overfilled cream doughnuts, the stall's signature
- St. JOHN Smithfield — British cooking known for roast bone marrow
- The Devonshire — Popular pub pairing Guinness with British cooking
- Kiln — Thai and Southeast Asian cooking over fire and in claypots
- Mangal II — Dalston restaurant rooted in Anatolian charcoal cooking
- The Barbary Neal’s Yard — North African and Mediterranean cooking at a 24-seat counter
- Gymkhana — Refined Northern Indian cooking in Mayfair
- Noble Rot Lamb’s Conduit — Wine-focused dining with classical French influences
- Brat Redchurch Street — Shoreditch restaurant centred on wood-fired cooking
- Berenjak Soho — A lively Persian restaurant inspired by Tehran kabab houses
- Rules — British pies and puddings in a restaurant dating to 1798
- Tayyabs — Punjabi lamb chops and curries for sharing
- Koya Soho — Fresh udon and Japanese-style breakfast
- A. Wong — Contemporary interpretations of Chinese regional cooking
- The River Cafe — Seasonal Italian cooking beside the Thames
- Prufrock Coffee — Coffee and brunch with an espresso hollandaise twist
- Kaffeine Great Titchfield Street — Cafe inspired by Australian and New Zealand coffee culture
- WatchHouse Seven Dials — Coffee and brunch across two bright floors
- Gelupo — Daily-made gelato and seasonal sorbets
- Fortitude Bakehouse — Craft bakery known for fermented baking and beignets
- American Bar at The Savoy — Historic cocktail bar inspired by stories of The Savoy
- M. Manze — A century-old pie and mash shop with green liquor
- The Harwood Arms — A Michelin-starred pub built around game
- The Golden Hind — Traditional fish and chips since 1914
- E Pellicci — Italian family cafe, open since 1900
- Beigel Bake Brick Lane — Salt beef bagels, open round the clock
- Bancone — Hand-rolled pasta thin as a handkerchief
- Singburi Shoreditch — Thai curries and larb, no frills, Bib-level prices
- Brasserie Zedel — Art Deco French dining room in a 1915 hotel basement
- Hoppers Soho — Bowl-shaped hopper pancakes and chopped-roti kothu
- Core by Clare Smyth — Three-Michelin-star British fine dining
- Peggy Porschen Belgravia — Pink flower-wall cake parlour
- The Wolseley — Grand Viennese-style hall for breakfast and tea
- Lina Stores Soho — Green-and-white striped Italian deli
- Connaught Bar — Hotel bar famed for its martini trolley
- Nightjar — Basement speakeasy with live jazz