The Top 100 Places to Eat and Drink Near Soft & Swirly
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Rank 1. Soft & Swirly
Ice Cream
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Rank 3. Teal by Sally Abé
British
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Rank 5. FORNO
Bakery/Cafe
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Rank 6. Miga
Korean
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Rank 7. OMBRA
Italian
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Rank 8. Logma
Iraqi
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Rank 9. Ararat Bread
Bakery/Cafe
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Rank 10. The Dusty Knuckle Bakery
Sandwiches
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Rank 11. Tiella Trattoria & Bar
Italian
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Rank 12. EDAMI
Bakery/Cafe
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In a converted Shoreditch warehouse, Tomos Parry grills with the precision of restraint rather than spectacle, letting oak and timing speak louder than technique. The room is warm and unhurried, the wine list restless and curious, and every plate—from Hereford sirloin to mutton chop—reads as a quiet argument for doing one thing very well.
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In Shoreditch, Sagardi channels Basque asador culture through wood-fired heat and dry-aged Spanish beef, letting product and flame do the talking without flourish. The txuleton—a thick, bone-in steak from older cattle—emerges charred and ruby-warm, a study in the authority that comes from trusting your tradition.
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Rank 20. Tavern
British
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In Farringdon, this Basque grill treats beef sourcing and dry-ageing as core identity, cooking Galician Blond over open fire with restraint rather than aggression. The confidence extends beyond the meat—clean plating, informed service, and Spanish wine all align behind the same disciplined intention.
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Rank 23. One Club Row
American
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Rank 24. The Dreamery
Ice Cream
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Rank 25. Bar Etna
Pizza
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Rank 27. Bake Street
Bakery/Cafe
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Rank 28. Quince Bakery
Bakery/Cafe
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Within The Ned's mahogany-lined dining room, Lutyens Grill handles dry-aged European beef with measured precision on the charcoal grill, letting each cut speak for itself. Tableside carving of Beef Wellington and classical service establish a restaurant where British grandeur feels earned rather than performed.
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Inside Sir George Gilbert Scott's Gothic Revival masterpiece, Hawksmoor tends British beef with the kind of restraint that lets dry-aged flavor speak clearly over charcoal. The room is grand but the cooking refuses theatre, instead delivering precision through timing and heat—a welcome clarity in a space that could easily overwhelm.
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Rank 35. Ikoyi Restaurant
Experimental
Ikoyi operates in its own culinary universe, where Nigerian and global influences dissolve into something untethered and alive. The Strand dining room justifies the price if you believe in transformation through taste.
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Rank 38. Trullo
Italian
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Rank 39. Osteria Angelina
Italian
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Rank 42. Sonora Taquería
Mexican
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A handsome Soho pub where the bar thrums with the energy of a Dickens novel filtered through a Guy Ritchie lens. The British cooking arrives without fuss—roasts and pies executed with the kind of precision that makes tradition feel inevitable.
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Rank 46. Oddono's Gelati
Ice Cream
Oddono's Gelati trades in the kind of gelato that arrives with the weight and density of genuine ice cream, its flavors pitched somewhere between restraint and indulgence. The Stoke Newington location offers the rare luxury of a proper room to sit in while you eat it.
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Rank 51. Trattoria Brutto
Italian
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Wood panelling and soft light frame a Mayfair institution where grass-fed British beef, dry-aged and char-grilled, arrives without pretense or flourish. The Guinea Grill endures because it understands that a great grill room need not perform tradition—it simply lives it, backed by service as assured and unshowy as the meat itself.
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Rank 66. Burro
Italian
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Rank 68. Osteria Vibrato
Italian
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Rank 70. Bouchon Racine
French
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Rank 72. Zeit für Brot
Bakery/Cafe
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Rank 73. Bocca di Lupo
Italian
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Rank 74. Luca
Italian
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Rank 75. St. John
British
In a converted Victorian smokehouse near Barbican, St. John practices a plainspoken gospel of nose-to-tail cooking and fresh pastry with the devotion of a monk. The madeleines arrive warm, the offal unflinching, the whole enterprise a rebuke to fashion.
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Rank 76. Kiln
Thai
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Rank 77. HIMI
Japanese
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Rank 78. Farha
Bakery/Cafe
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Rank 79. Donia
Filipino
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Rank 80. Dim Sum Duck
Chinese
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Rank 81. Legare
Italian
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Rank 83. Chunk Provisions
Ice Cream
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Rank 84. Nagare Bankside
Bakery/Cafe
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Rank 85. Ciao Bella
Italian
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Rank 86. Master Wei Xi'An
Chinese
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Rank 87. Fortitude Bakehouse
Bakery/Cafe
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Rank 88. SUBA Walthamstow
Bakery/Cafe
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Rank 89. Ice Cream Union
Ice Cream
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Rank 91. Simpson's in the Strand
British
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Rank 92. Arôme Bakery
Bakery/Cafe
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Rank 93. Mamasons Dirty Ice Cream
Ice Cream
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Rank 94. Belly
Filipino
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Rank 95. Taiyakiya
Dessert
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Rank 96. Chin Chin Dessert Club
Ice Cream
A narrow Soho parlor with polished surfaces and a gleam of refinement where ice cream becomes an occasion rather than an afterthought. The flavors bend toward invention—not gimmickry—and each spoon registers as a small discovery.
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Rank 97. Impala
Egyptian
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Rank 98. Akoko
West African
Akoko's kitchen takes West African ingredients and technique—palm oil, fermented grains, slow-cooked proteins—and builds them into a tasting menu that moves with both intellectual rigor and genuine pleasure. The dining room on Berners Street feels like an arrival; you leave convinced you've witnessed something durable.
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Rank 99. Tarn Bakery
Bakery/Cafe
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Rank 100. Onsu
Bakery/Cafe