The Best Places to Eat and Stay in London
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Rank 563. Nagare Bankside
Japanese-inspired Bakery
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Rank 563. Nagare Coffee
Coffee
Nagare is a Spitalfields coffee shop that treats a flat white like a small ceremony. The dark wood chairs look antique in a way that took some planning, and the milky white La Marzocco sits behind the counter like a piece of kitchen design you'll be quietly coveting by the second sip. Beans can come from a small-batch roaster in Hong Kong, and the menu covers iced, milky, filter, and drip. Expect a quick coffee and a very photogenic pause.
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Rank 563. Nostos Coffee
Coffee
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Rank 563. Onsu
Pan-Asian Patisserie
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Rank 563. Panadera Marylebone
Filipino Coffee Shop
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Rank 563. Profile Coffee
Coffee
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Rank 563. Prufrock Coffee
Coffee
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Rank 563. Quality Wines
Greek
A wine bar and kitchen on Farringdon Road where the menu changes weekly and wanders across southern Europe, lately drifting toward the Aegean. The chef's instincts are eclectic enough to move from gildas to lobster rolls to herbed meatballs in avgolemono without the menu feeling lost. The room is small enough that you notice when someone orders something you want, which happens often.
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Rank 563. Quince Bakery
British Bakery
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Rank 563. Roti King
Malaysian
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Rank 563. Royal China Club
Cantonese
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The dining room sits, quite inexplicably, on the ground floor of a Holiday Inn Express just off the Blackwall Tunnel, which should tell you everything and nothing about what to expect. This is a dim sum and Cantonese restaurant with real pedigree, the kind where the wok-fried king prawn noodles arrive with genuine smoke still on them. Eater named it one of London's 38 best restaurants, and the trek to SE10 is a perfectly reasonable price of admission.
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A laid-back Thai restaurant and bar on Shoreditch High Street where the wok does most of the talking. Homemade sausages, grilled skewers, fragrant curries, and a short menu that changes just enough to keep regulars guessing. The chef's focus on wok cookery gives it an edge beyond the usual comfort hits. Busy in the way Shoreditch always is, though here the playlist and the friendly service make the noise feel earned rather than accidental.
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Rank 563. Sofu Coffee
Yunnan Coffee Shop
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Rank 563. Sonora Taquería
Mexican
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Rank 563. SUBA Walthamstow
African Bakery
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Rank 563. Sushi Tetsu
Sushi
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Rank 563. Tarn Bakery
Bakery
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Rank 563. Tavern
Modern British
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Rank 563. Thattukada
South Indian
East Ham holds London's largest Kerala community, and this casual South Indian spot sits at the heart of it. The fries are the thing everyone talks about: a half chicken fried hard with chiles and crispy onions, whole anchovies, battered mussels. Curries and roasts run deeper than their plain descriptions suggest, and the parottas and appams are there to make sure nothing gets left behind.
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Near King's Cross, this tiny Irish lunch room seats fewer than twenty and takes reservations by landline or postcard, whichever feels less absurd to you. Hugh Corcoran runs it at two sittings a day, cash only, with the wine list stored entirely in the proprietor's head. The cooking is quietly old-fashioned, the kind that makes you wonder when Dublin coddle stopped being on more menus. Eater named it one of London's 38 best restaurants.
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Rank 563. TOAD Bakery
Bakery
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Rank 563. Vincenzo’s Pizza
New York Pizzeria
New York-style slices on Bethnal Green Road, from a spot that built a cult following out in Watford before anyone in E2 noticed. The classics, cheese, tomato, pepperoni, lean on low-moisture mozzarella and a properly crisp base. Then there's a spanakopita slice with Scotch bonnet honey, and a thicker grandma pie that rotates between vodka sauce and hot honey pepperoni. Eater named it among London's 38 best restaurants.
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Rank 563. Weezie’s
Wine Bar
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Rank 563. Wong Kei
Cantonese
The roast duck hanging in the window has been the opening argument on Wardour Street for longer than most of Soho's current residents have been alive. Wong Kei is an old-school Cantonese restaurant across several floors, famous for wontons, char siu, and service so legendarily curt it became a tourist attraction in its own right. Chinatown has moved on to bubble waffles and regional menus; Wong Kei has not moved, which is entirely the point.
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Rank 563. Yi-Ban
Cantonese
The wooden staircase leading up above a mixed martial arts gym tells you everything about this Docklands dim sum restaurant before you've even put your name down for a table. Sunday lunch here means joining a queue of dozens, then surrendering to a rolling procession of tea, prawn and chive dumplings, cheung fun with XO sauce, tripe, ribs, and roast meats. It appears on Eater's list of the 38 best London restaurants, and the regulars driving out to E16 would not argue.
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Rank 563. Zeit für Brot
German Bakery
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Rank 563. Zeret Kitchen
Ethiopian
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Rank 563. ZeroToOne Coffee
Vietnamese Coffee Shop
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Rank 637. Lutyens Grill
Steakhouse
The Beef Wellington arrives whole, gets carved tableside, and briefly makes everyone at neighboring tables feel slightly under-ordered. This is a mahogany-and-leather steakhouse inside The Ned in the City, where dry-aged cuts meet a charcoal grill and the carving trolley still does the rounds. It ranks 35th on the World's Best Steak Restaurants list, which is the kind of credential that arrives without fanfare, much like the service itself.
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- World's 101 Best World's 101 Best: #35 · World's Best Steak Restaurants
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Rank 638. Chelsea Grill
Steakhouse
Wood-fired and dry-aged on the King's Road, Chelsea Grill is a steakhouse that takes British provenance seriously, working directly with farmers and letting the beef do the talking. The room is warm timber and soft light, the kind of place that feels polished without trying to remind you of it. It landed on the World's Best Steak Restaurants list at number 55, and the kitchen's restraint makes that feel like a natural fit rather than a surprise.
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Rank 638. Guinea Grill
British Steakhouse
Wood-panelled walls and the low murmur of a room that has been doing this for a long time set the tone at this Mayfair grill. The Guinea Grill is a proper old-school steakhouse, serious about British beef, grass-fed and both wet and dry-aged, cooked on a char grill without any theatrics. It ranked among the World's Best Steak Restaurants, which tracks. Service runs on calm experience rather than performance, and the wine list follows the same unfussy logic.
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- World's 101 Best World's 101 Best: #99 · World's Best Steak Restaurants
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Rank 638. Made in Italy
Italian
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Rank 638. Sagardi
Basque Steakhouse
The txuleton, a thick bone-in steak from older Basque cattle, is cooked over a wood-fired grill with nothing but salt and a lot of patience. This Shoreditch asador brings Basque grilling culture to London without softening it for the audience, and the room, all wooden tables and open flames, smells accordingly. It landed on the World's Best Steak Restaurants list, which tells you what to order. Service runs on warmth rather than ceremony, the way it would back in San Sebastián.
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- World's 101 Best World's 101 Best: #90 · World's Best Steak Restaurants
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Rank 642. Bilmonte
Ice Cream Shop
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Rank 642. Caravaggio Gelato
Ice Cream Shop
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Rank 642. Chin Chin Dessert Club
Creative Ice Cream Shop
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Rank 642. Chunk Provisions
Ice Cream Shop
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Rank 642. Ciao Bella
Italian
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Rank 642. Foubert's
Ice Cream Shop
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Rank 642. Gelupo
Ice Cream Shop
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Rank 642. Ice Cream Union
Ice Cream Shop
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Rank 642. Ida
Italian
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Rank 642. Kabul Ice Cream
Afghan Ice Cream Shop
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Rank 642. Mamasons Dirty Ice Cream
Filipino Ice Cream Shop
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Rank 642. Nardulli
Ice Cream Shop
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Rank 642. Nina
Italian
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Rank 642. Oddono's Gelati
Ice Cream Shop
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Rank 642. OMBRA
Italian
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Rank 642. Romeo & Giulietta Artisan Gelateria
Ice Cream Shop
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Rank 642. Soft & Swirly
Ice Cream Shop
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Rank 642. Taiyakiya
Japanese Dessert
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Rank 642. The Dreamery
Ice Cream Shop
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Rank 642. Tiella Trattoria & Bar
Italian
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Rank 642. Unico Gelato & Caffè
Ice Cream Shop
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Rank 664. 27 Romilly St
Persian
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Rank 664. Alley Cats Pizza Chelsea
NYC-style Pizzeria
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Rank 664. Andrew Edmunds
Modern European
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Rank 664. Bancone Golden Square
Italian
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Rank 664. Bottarga
Greek
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Rank 664. Breadstall Pizza
Pizzeria
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Rank 664. Cadogan Arms
British Beer Bar
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Rank 664. Crunch
American
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Rank 664. Danieru Sushi
Sushi
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Rank 664. DUCKSOUP
Modern Mediterranean Wine Bar
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Rank 664. Hunan
Chinese
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Rank 664. Ixchel
Mexican
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Rank 664. La Famiglia
Italian
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Rank 664. La Mia Mamma
Italian
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Rank 664. Maison Bertaux
Bakery
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Rank 664. MARTINO'S
Italian
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Rank 664. Nanahoshi
Sushi
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Rank 664. Phat Phuc Noodle Bar
Pan-Asian Noodle Shop
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Rank 664. reemies cakes
Dessert
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Rank 664. Rita's
American
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Rank 664. SOLA
American
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Rank 664. The Shaston Arms
British
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Rank 664. Zheng
Malaysian
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