Head down the stairs, take a seat and lose track of time in the dark candle lit cellar. If cheese and wine is your thing then you’ll love Gordon’s. Read more.
This pub is a favoured hang out of civil servants, journalists and politicians. Keep your ears open for huddles in the corner discussing the latest political gossip. Read more.
Who says the U.K.’s culinary fare consists only of fish and chips? Dinner is certainly expensive, but serves thrilling, British dishes inspired by historic menus as far back as the 14th century
Jump off the Overground line at Rotherhithe for a pint and some food at one of London’s best pubs. It takes its name from the ship that took the Pilgrim Fathers to New England in 1620. Read more.
Mexican market eating in London, near the Olympic Park. Here’s the closest you'll get to American style Mexican food, and it’s delicious and quick. It also caters well to gluten intolerant folks. Read more.
Breakfast or brunch at Tom’s Kitchen will fuel you through a day of gallery-hopping at the V&A, which lies just a 10-minute walk away. Read more.
With its low ceilings and small windows, it’s befitting of its subject, the opposite of London’s grand, columned temples to high art. Read more.
At the foot of London Fields, the nearly 300-year-old Cat & Mutton pub has a new gastro menu. Join locals and dozing whippets, East London’s dog of choice, on the benches outside. Read more.
Start with the chargrilled sourdough served with fluffy onion butter sprinkled with burnt onion, before moving onto the juicy lamb cutlets with an anchovy, mint and parsley sauce. Read more.
A glamorous, Royal Air Force-blue room with white leather banquettes where I ate a juicy pork chop and a pudding of poached plums on a wickedly sweet deep-fried brioche. Read more.
Camley Street Natural Park, a 2-acre reserve beside Regent’s Canal, is the kind of place you’d expect to access via a rabbit hole. Read more.
You feel as if you’ve hit the streets of Mumbai at Dishoom, where piquant paneer rolls, lamb samosas and chicken tikka are served in the vast but perpetually crammed former Western Transit Shed. Read more.
