Food & Dining
- Historic 24-Hour Bakery
Beigel Bake
A legendary East End bakery on Brick Lane, open around the clock since the 1970s and famous for hand-boiled-and-baked beigels, above all the salt beef beigel with mustard and pickle.
- Food Market
Borough Market
A sprawling covered food market under the railway arches by London Bridge, trading on or near this site for close to a thousand years and now a showcase for artisan produce and street food.
- Indian Restaurant (Irani Café)
Dishoom (Covent Garden)
The original branch of London's Bombay-inspired restaurant group, recreating the vanishing Irani cafés of early-20th-century Bombay with a menu built around bacon naan rolls and slow-cooked black daal.
- Historic Pie & Mash Shop
F. Cooke
A century-old East End pie and mash shop on Hoxton Street, its green-tiled walls and marble-topped tables barely changed since minced beef pies and liquor were working-class London's everyday lunch.
- Historic Wine Bar
Gordon's Wine Bar
A candlelit vaulted cellar near Embankment open since 1890, widely held to be London's oldest wine bar, pouring an enormous list of sherries and wines beside cheese and charcuterie boards.
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Learn more → - Steak Restaurant
Hawksmoor (Seven Dials)
A cornerstone of London's modern steakhouse scene in Seven Dials, championing native British beef breeds, weeks-long dry-ageing and a serious cocktail list alongside its famous bone marrow gravy.
- Food Market
Maltby Street Market
An independent street food market threaded through railway arches in Bermondsey, grown from a handful of wholesale traders' stalls into a smaller, less touristy alternative to nearby Borough Market.
- Specialty Coffee Roaster
Monmouth Coffee Company (Borough Market)
The Borough Market branch of London's pioneering specialty coffee roaster, tracing back to a single Covent Garden shop opened in 1978 that is widely credited with launching Britain's third-wave coffee scene.
- Fresh Pasta Restaurant
Padella
A small, hugely popular fresh-pasta restaurant by Borough Market, opened in 2016 with an open kitchen turning out hand-rolled pasta, above all its famed pappardelle with eight-hour beef shin ragu.
- Fish & Chips
Poppies Fish & Chips
A retro 1950s-style chippy in Spitalfields, opened in 2011 to revive the look and taste of a classic East End fish-and-chip shop with sustainably sourced fish.
- Classic English Caff
Regency Café
A black-and-white tiled Art Deco greasy spoon in Pimlico open since 1946, famous for its full English breakfast, cash-only counter service and appearances in films including Layer Cake and Pride.
- Historic British Restaurant
Rules
London's oldest restaurant, opened in Covent Garden in 1798 as an oyster bar and still serving classic British and game cookery beneath red-plush Edwardian ceilings.
- Historic British Restaurant
Simpson's in the Strand
One of London's oldest restaurants, opened in 1828 out of a chess club and coffee house, famous for its tableside trolleys carving the "Great Joints" of traditional roast beef.
- Modern British / Nose-to-Tail Restaurant
St. JOHN
The whitewashed Smithfield dining room where chef Fergus Henderson pioneered "nose-to-tail" eating in 1994, its roast bone marrow and parsley salad becoming one of the most influential dishes in modern British cooking.
- Historic Seafood Restaurant
Sweetings
A no-reservations Victorian seafood restaurant open for weekday lunch only in the City of London since 1889, famed for Dover sole, potted shrimp and tankards of Guinness at marble counters.
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Tayyabs
A family-run Punjabi grill in Whitechapel serving the East End since 1972, famous for sizzling lamb chops and seekh kebabs in a loud, cash-and-BYOB dining room.
- Historic Galleried Coaching Inn Pub
The George Inn
London's last remaining galleried coaching inn, rebuilt in 1677 near Southwark's Borough High Street, now owned by the National Trust and mentioned by Charles Dickens in Little Dorrit.
- Historic Hotel Afternoon Tea
The Ritz London (Afternoon Tea)
The gilded Palm Court of César Ritz's 1906 Piccadilly hotel, serving one of London's most celebrated afternoon teas beneath Louis XVI-style ceilings, with tables booked out months ahead.
- Grand Café & Brasserie
The Wolseley
A grand all-day brasserie on Piccadilly inside a 1920s former car showroom built for Wolseley Motors, its black marble columns and Viennese café grandeur drawing a media and celebrity crowd from breakfast to late supper.
- Historic Pub
Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese
One of the City of London's oldest pubs, rebuilt in 1667 after the Great Fire, a warren of dark, wood-panelled rooms and cellars off Fleet Street long associated with Samuel Johnson and Charles Dickens.