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DK Top 10 London
One of the world's most captivating metropolises, London is a cultural colossus-renowned for its pulsating theater district, museums, monuments, and fabulous array of restaurants and bars. Your DK Eyewitness Top 10 travel guide ensures you'll find your way around London with absolute ease.
Our annually updated Top 10 travel guide breaks down the best of London into helpful lists of ten-from our own selected highlights to the best museums and art galleries, places to eat, parks and gardens, and riverfront sights.
You'll
• Thirteen easy-to-follow itineraries , perfect for a day trip, a weekend, or a week
• Top 10 lists of London's must-sees , including detailed descriptions of the British Museum, National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery, Natural History Museum, Science Museum, Buckingham Palace, London Eye, Tate Modernand Tate Britain, Westminster Abbey and Parliament Square, Tower of London, and St Paul's Cathedral
• London's most interesting areas , with the best places for shopping, going out, and sightseeing
• Inspiration for different things to enjoy during your trip-including festivals and cultural events, traditional pubs, hidden gems off the beaten track, and things to do for free
• A laminated pull-out map of London and its environs, plus eleven full-color neighborhood maps
• Streetsmart advice : get ready, get around, and stay safe
• A lightweight format perfect for your pocket or bag when you're on the move
Looking for more on London's culture, history, and attractions? Try our DK Eyewitness London .
Our annually updated Top 10 travel guide breaks down the best of London into helpful lists of ten-from our own selected highlights to the best museums and art galleries, places to eat, parks and gardens, and riverfront sights.
You'll
• Thirteen easy-to-follow itineraries , perfect for a day trip, a weekend, or a week
• Top 10 lists of London's must-sees , including detailed descriptions of the British Museum, National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery, Natural History Museum, Science Museum, Buckingham Palace, London Eye, Tate Modernand Tate Britain, Westminster Abbey and Parliament Square, Tower of London, and St Paul's Cathedral
• London's most interesting areas , with the best places for shopping, going out, and sightseeing
• Inspiration for different things to enjoy during your trip-including festivals and cultural events, traditional pubs, hidden gems off the beaten track, and things to do for free
• A laminated pull-out map of London and its environs, plus eleven full-color neighborhood maps
• Streetsmart advice : get ready, get around, and stay safe
• A lightweight format perfect for your pocket or bag when you're on the move
Looking for more on London's culture, history, and attractions? Try our DK Eyewitness London .
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Dorling Kindersley. (2024). Top 10: London. London: Dorling Kindersley.
Museums
4. Imperial War: Bethlehem Royal Hospital, ceiling aircraft, armored vehicles, missiles, trench
5. Victoria & Albert: Medieval, Renaissance, Indian, Far East
6. National Maritime: Nelson’s Trafalgar coat
7. Design: Designer Maker User
8. Sir John Soane: paintings, sculptures, artifacts
9. London Transport: former flower market
10. Horniman: musical instruments, butterflies, world culture, walrus taxidermy & skeletons
- p. 50-51
Art galleries
1. Courtauld: (post-)Impressionist Manet, Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Renoir
3. Tate Britain: 16c British art e.g. JMW Turner
4. National: European
5. Wallace Collection: 15-19c European paintings, porcelain, sculpture, armour
6. Queen’s: monarchy
7. National Portrait
8. Royal Academy of Art
9. Kenwood House: mansion library
10. Serpentine: Zaha Hadid’s avant-garde former gunpowder store
- p. 52-53
Royal
1. Hampton Court: Tudor kitchens, Cumberland art gallery, chapel, apartments
3. Kensington Palace: Diana’s home
4. St James’ Palace: Henry VIII’s Tudor
5. Kew Palace, Queen Charlotte’s Cottage
6. Banqueting House: Rubens ceiling
7. Queen’s House: Palladian maritime art
8. Royal Mews: stagecoaches
9. Queen’s Chapel: worshippers’ altar
10. Clarence House: King Charles III
- p. 54-55
ROYAL MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS
1. Albert Memorial: Gothic Revival
2. Queen Anne's Gate: Westminster St statue
3. Queen Elizabeth I, St Dunstan-in-the-West
4. Duke of York Steps: nursery rhyme statue
5. Queen Victoria, Blackfriars
6. Queen Elizabeth Il Birthplace Plaque
7. George VI & Queen Elizabeth Memorial
8. Charles I, Whitehall
9. The Henry VIII Gate, St Barts
10. Princess Diana Memorial Fountain
- p. 55
CHURCHES
1. Westminster Abbey
2. St Paul’s Cathedral
3. Temple: 12c Knights Templar
4. Southwark Cathedral
5. St Martin-in-the-Fields: music, crypt café
6. All Saints Margaret St: High Victorian Gothic
7. Westminster Cathedral: tower lift
8. Brompton Oratory: Italian
9. St Stephen Walbrook: coffered dome on Corinthian columns, Tue/Fri lunch recitals
10. St Bartholomew the Great: Norman 14c Lady Chapel
- p. 56-57
Parks/Gardens
1. Kensington: Diana Memorial Playground, Serpentine Gallery
2. Regent’s: Zoo, open-air theatre, boating lake, Queen Mary’s Garden
3. Hyde: Serpentine, Speaker’s Corner
4. Green: deckchairs
5. Primrose Hill: duels @63m
6. St James’: 1430h pelican feed, café
7. Richmond: deer, Isabella Plantation, Pembroke Lodge
8. Victoria Tower
9. Bushy: deer, Waterhouse Woodland
10. Greenwich
- p. 58-59
London on Screen
3. Bridget Jones’ Diary: Globe Tavern
4. Harry Potter: Leadenhall Market as Diagon Alley
5. Love Actually: Alan Rickman’s Oxford Selfridges necklace
6. Paddington Bear station statue
8. Notting Hill: 280 Westbourne Park Road, Rosmead Gardens
9. Da Vinci Code: 12c Knights Templar
- p. 62-63
LONDON WALKS
1. City: Great Fire monument
2. Hampstead circular walk: Fenton House, 2 Willow Road, Heath, Grade I Burgh House since 1704, Holly Hill
3. Jubilee Greenway: Buckingham Palace to Little Venice
4. Regent’s Canal Towpath: Little Venice to King’s Cross
6. Jubilee Walkway: Camden Loop
7. Thames Path: Hampton Court to Thames Barrier
8. Green Chain Walk: Victorian dinosaur sculpture @Crystal Palace Park
9. Capital Ring: Syon Park, Finsbury Park, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Woolwich Foot Tunnel, Eltham Palace
10. London LOOP
- p. 64-65
LINE SCULPTURE TRAIL🗿
1. Anish Kapoor’s ArcelorMittal Orbit
2. Carsten Höller’s The Slide
3. Ron Haselden’s Diver
4. Tracey Emin’s A Moment without You
5. Simon Faithfull’s 0°00 Navigation
6. Laura Ford’s Bird Boy without a Tail
7. Anthony Gormley’s Quantum Cloud
8. Serge Attukwei Clottey’s Tribe & Tribulation
9. Richard Wilson’s A Slice of Reality
10. Thomson & Craighead’s Here
- p. 65
THAMES RIVER
1. HMS Belfast
3. Savoy Hotel: Thames Foyer, Savoy Grill
5. Millennium Bridge
6. Lambeth Palace: Archbishop of Canterbury
7. Curry Sark tea clipper
8. St Katharine Docks
- p. 68-69
OFF THE BEATEN TRACK
1. St Clement Danes: RAF church
2. E Pellicci breakfast
3. Puppet Theatre Barge
4. Benjamin Franklin House
5. Postal Museum
6. London Fields: Hackney Museum
7. Temple
8. Postman’s Park
9. Old Operating Theatre: oldest surgical theatre via spiral staircase
- p. 70-71
FAMILY ATTRACTIONS
1. Science Museum
3. Mudchute Park & Farm
5. Sea Life Aquarium
6. Diana Memorial Playground
7. Young V&A: toy museum
8. Coram’s Fields
9. Battersea Park
- p. 72-73
LONDON DISHES
1. Oldest fish & chips: Rock & Sole Plaice
4. Tooting: South Asian curry
5. Jamaican jerk chicken: Fish, Wings, Tings
6. Falafel wrap: Edgware Road’s kofta, kibbeh, mezze
7. Pie & mash: 19c M Manze’s parsley-based liquor
9. Kebab: Turkish @Tottenham/Haringey or Lewisham/Peckham
10. Pizza: Pizza Express @Clerkenwell
- p. 78-79
South Asian curries:
1. Chicken tikka masala: spicy marinade
2. Madras: spicily sour with yogurt raita
3. Biriyani
4. Korma: sweet coconut sauce
5. Balti: garlic-onion sauce
6. Faal: hottest ground chili peppers
7. Masala dosa: crepe with potato curry, chutney, vegetable stew
8. Jalfrezi: spicy, stir-fried capsicum, onion, tomato
9. Tandoori
10. Vindaloo: Bangladeshi-Goan curry
- p. 79
PUBS
1. Dog & Duck: Victorian
2. George Inn: galleried coaching
3. Holy Tavern: 18c coffee & ale
4. Spaniards Inn: 16c Turpin Bar beer
5. Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese: grub
6. Grapes: Ian McKellen’s heated waterside deck
7. Princess Louise 19c Sam Smith beer, pie, pudding
8. Anchor & Hope: slow-cooked venison, south coast skate
9. French House: Breton cider, wine, earthy dining upstairs
10. Lamb & Flag: Charles Dickens
- p. 80-81
SHOPS & MARKETS
1. Fortnum & Mason: ground floor English food hall
3. Harrods: ice cream, sushi
4. Harvey Nichols: Fifth Floor Café
7. Portobello Road: Saturday antiques
8. Camden Market: Amy Winehouse @Chalk Farm
9. Daunt Books: Edwardian oak galleries & stained-glass conservatory
10. Liberty: wood panels & floor, floral fabric, home furnishing
- p. 82-83
WESTMINSTER, SOUTH BANK, SOUTHWARK
8. Southbank Centre arts
• Marriott Hotel: Former Greater London Council HQ, breakfast
• Lambeth Pier café
• National COVID Memorial Wall
• Gabriel Wharf craft shops
• Oxo Tower: designer galleries, viewing platform
• Anchor pub
16. Florence Nightingale Museum
• Shopping: Houses of Parliament, Lower Marsh Market (vinyl/craft/food), National Theatre Bookshop play texts & gifts, Fri AM Bermondsey Antiques, Konditor brownies
• Pubs & Cafes: Southwark Tavern, Gentlemen Baristas bowler hat coffee & pastries, Monmouth Coffee, Wheatsheaf beer/burgers/pizza, Kings Arms ale & Thai food, The Rake beer
• Restaurants: Cinnamon Club🇮🇳, Skylon🇬🇧, Lupins, Roast🇬🇧, Archduke steak/burgers/cocktails, 50 Kalò di Ciro Salvo’s Neapolitan pizza, Pizarro’s Iberian meat, Oxo Tower’s cheaper brasserie jazz, Globe’s Swan, Fish!
- p. 90-97
SOHO & WEST END
5. Photographers’ Gallery
6. Old Compton St: I Camisa & Son🇮🇹, Vintage House wine
8. Berwick St Market fruit
9. SoHo Square🏓
• Dumplings’ Legend 小笼包, Baozilnn, Maison Bertaux tea & cake
Shopping: Foyles/Waterstones books, Liberty fabrics, Lina Stores pasta, Algerian Coffee Stores
Late-night: Pizza Express jazz, 100 Wardour St, SoHo Theatre Bar, Ronnie Scott’s jazz, Balans No60 burgers, Disrepute, Crazy Cogs, Cahoots🚉,, El Camion🇲🇽
Pubs & Cafes: Bar Italia, My Place SoHo, Breakfast Club disco hash, Victorian pub John Snow, Cork & Bottle eclectic wine, journalists’ pub Coach & Horses
Restaurants: Seafood Bar, Hoppers 🇱🇰lentil pancakes, Burger & Lobster, Bao 🇹🇼pork confit, Imad’s Syrian Kitchen babaganoush, Yauatcha scallop siew mai & venison puff pastry, J Sheekey’s Cornish fish stew, Kricket 🇮🇳sharing, Busaba Eathai pad thai, Barrafina tapas
- p. 98-105
COVENT GARDEN
1. Somerset House: Courtauld Gallery
2. Piazza & Central Mkt: My Fair Lady
3. Royal Opera: Victorian wrought-iron floral hall restaurant
4. Seven Dials Mkt food
6. Floral St: Court’s Petersham Nurseries
7. London Transport Museum
8. Neal’s Yard: Dairy cheese, Homeslice pizza, St John Bakery pastries
9. St Paul’s Church
10. Theatre Royal Drury Ln
• Benjamin Pollock’s Toyshop, 180 Studios
11. Bow St Police Museum
12. Donmar Warehouse
13. Royal Opera Hse backstage tour
14. Edwardian Coliseum
15. Cleopatra’s Needle
16. Embankment Pier’s river cruises
17. Victoria Embankment Gdns
18. Freemasons’ Hall museum
19. gold-white St Mary-le-Strand
Shops: Tintin, Stanfords travel coffeeshop, St Martin’s Courtyard, FOPP, Penhaligon fragrant candles
Pubs/Cafes: Ladurée, WatchHouse/Grind/FREVD coffee, La Gelatiera honey/rosemary/orange, Lowlander Grand Café/Porterhouse Euro beer, Gordon’s Wine Bar
Dining: Ivy, Barbary’s N African, Mon Plaisir, Delaunay, Cora Pearl🇬🇧, Chick’n’Sours, Rules oyster/pie/game, Souk🇲🇦
- p. 106-113
BLOOMSBURY/FITZROVIA
2. British Library
3. Sir John Soane’s Museum 12/2pm tours
4. Charles Dickens Museum
5. University College London: Grant Zoology Museum
7. St Pancras Renaissance Hotel
8. Foundling Museum
9. Fitzroy Sq: Shaw, Woolf
10. BT Twr
• Jarndyce book/print, Bloomsbury Sq, ROKA Jap bbq, Brunswick Ctr, Curzon cinema
Shops: La Fromagerie’s Beaufort Chalet d’Alpage, Hobgoblin Music, Heals furniture café, Maggie Owen jewelry, Contemporary Ceramics, James Smith & Sons umbrellas, L Cornelissen pigments, London Review books
Eat/Drink: Truckles of Pied Bull Yard wine, House of Hô pho, Hakkasan, Salt Yard iberico confit & grilled octopus, Dalloway Terrace, Norfolk Arms tapas, Victorian mahogany pub Princess Louise, Cosmoba🇮🇹
- p. 116-121
MAYFAIR & ST JAMES’
3. Royal Academy of Arts
4. St James’ Palace: brick Tudor gatehouse
6. Shepherd Mkt: Ye Grapes, Titu, Misto, Iran
7. Berkeley Sq: oldest trees & Churchill’s #48
8. Royal Institution: Faraday Museum
9. Apsley Hse
10. Burlington Arcade
• St James’ Café/Church, Cork St galleries, Brown’s Hotel tea
Shops: Charbonnel et Walker chocolate, Gieves & Hawkes tailor, Paxton & Whitfield cheese, Sotheby’s, Hatchards books
Eat/Drink: Sketch: Lecture Rm, 🇹🇭Ye Grapes, 🇬🇧Galvin at Windows, Café Murano, Dover🇮🇹🇺🇸, Ritz harpist, Wolseley, 🇪🇸El Pirata, Wild Honey
- p. 122-127
KENSINGTON/KNIGHTSBRIDGE
8. Holland Pk: House, Kyoto Gdn, Opera
10. Leighton Hse
• Brompton Oratory, Beauchamp Plc, Kensington Palace Pavilion
14. Royal Geographical Society
16. Electric Cinema
17. Royal College of Music museum
18. LookOut
19. Speakers’ Corner
20. Design Museum
Shops: Artisan au Chocolat, Designers Guild fabric, Cutler & Gross eyewear, John Sandoe books, Ceramica Blue
Pub/Cafe: Montparnasse, Scarsdale Tavern ale, Nags Head’s Adnams beer, Castle craft beer, Anglesea Arms ale, Trailer Happiness rum cocktail, Victorian pub Paxtons Head, Portobello Stalls’ Acklam Village Mkt
Restaurant: Clarke’s, Euro Belvedere, Kitchen W8🇫🇷, Amaya🇮🇳, Core by Clare Smyth, 🇷🇺Mari Vanna, Ledbury, Claude Bosi @Bibendum oysters, Ognisko🇵🇱, Heston Blumenthal’s Dinner
- p. 128-135
REGENT’S PARK & MARYLEBONE
5. Cricket Museum
7. Wigmore Hall
9. BBC Broadcasting Hall
• Mithraeum
Shops: Alfie’s Antique, Marylebone Farmers’, Conran Shop chairs, Dr Marten’s, oak Daunt Books, Marylebone Lane, John Lewis, Selfridges & Co food hall, Le Labo perfumes
Eat/Drink: Wallace Restaurant, Artesian cocktails, Caldesi🇮🇹, Reubens salt beef sandwich, Pachamama tapas, Golden Hind calamari & fish&chips, Queen’s Head & Artichoke, Locanda Locatelli, Ivy Café
- p. 136-141
LONDON CITY
Churches: 17c St Katharine Cree, Holy Sepulchre bells, St Mary-le-Bow, St Magnus the Martyr pulpit, All Hallows by the Tower guided Saxon tour, St Stephen Walbrook, baroque St Mary Woolnoth, St Lawrence Jewry stained glass
Eat/Drink: Viaduct Tavern, Hawksmoor Guildhall steakhouse, Sweetings potted shrimp & Dover sole/plaice, Jugged Hare roast game, Holy Tavern, City Càphê pho, 1 Lombard St🇬🇧, Café Below
- p. 146-147
Museums
4. Imperial War: Bethlehem Royal Hospital, ceiling aircraft, armored vehicles, missiles, trench
5. Victoria & Albert: Medieval, Renaissance, Indian, Far East
6. National Maritime: Nelson’s Trafalgar coat
7. Design: Designer Maker User
8. Sir John Soane: paintings, sculptures, artifacts
9. London Transport: former flower market
10. Horniman: musical instruments, butterflies, world culture, walrus taxidermy & skeletons
- p. 50-51
Art galleries
1. Courtauld: (post-)Impressionist Manet, Van Gogh, Cézanne, Monet, Renoir
3. Tate Britain: 16c British art e.g. JMW Turner
4. National: European
5. Wallace Collection: 15-19c European paintings, porcelain, sculpture, armour
6. Queen’s: monarchy
7. National Portrait
8. Royal Academy of Art
9. Kenwood House: mansion library
10. Serpentine: Zaha Hadid’s avant-garde former gunpowder store
- p. 52-53
Royal
1. Hampton Court: Tudor kitchens, Cumberland art gallery, chapel, apartments
3. Kensington Palace: Diana’s home
4. St James’ Palace: Henry VIII’s Tudor
5. Kew Palace, Queen Charlotte’s Cottage
6. Banqueting House: Rubens ceiling
7. Queen’s House: Palladian maritime art
8. Royal Mews: stagecoaches
9. Queen’s Chapel: worshippers’ altar
10. Clarence House: King Charles III
- p. 54-55
ROYAL MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS
1. Albert Memorial: Gothic Revival
2. Queen Anne's Gate: Westminster St statue
3. Queen Elizabeth I, St Dunstan-in-the-West
4. Duke of York Steps: nursery rhyme statue
5. Queen Victoria, Blackfriars
6. Queen Elizabeth Il Birthplace Plaque
7. George VI & Queen Elizabeth Memorial
8. Charles I, Whitehall
9. The Henry VIII Gate, St Barts
10. Princess Diana Memorial Fountain
- p. 55
CHURCHES
1. Westminster Abbey
2. St Paul’s Cathedral
3. Temple: 12c Knights Templar
4. Southwark Cathedral
5. St Martin-in-the-Fields: music, crypt café
6. All Saints Margaret St: High Victorian Gothic
7. Westminster Cathedral: tower lift
8. Brompton Oratory: Italian
9. St Stephen Walbrook: coffered dome on Corinthian columns, Tue/Fri lunch recitals
10. St Bartholomew the Great: Norman 14c Lady Chapel
- p. 56-57
Parks/Gardens
1. Kensington: Diana Memorial Playground, Serpentine Gallery
2. Regent’s: Zoo, open-air theatre, boating lake, Queen Mary’s Garden
3. Hyde: Serpentine, Speaker’s Corner
4. Green: deckchairs
5. Primrose Hill: duels @63m
6. St James’: 1430h pelican feed, café
7. Richmond: deer, Isabella Plantation, Pembroke Lodge
8. Victoria Tower
9. Bushy: deer, Waterhouse Woodland
10. Greenwich
- p. 58-59
London on Screen
3. Bridget Jones’ Diary: Globe Tavern
4. Harry Potter: Leadenhall Market as Diagon Alley
5. Love Actually: Alan Rickman’s Oxford Selfridges necklace
6. Paddington Bear station statue
8. Notting Hill: 280 Westbourne Park Road, Rosmead Gardens
9. Da Vinci Code: 12c Knights Templar
- p. 62-63
LONDON WALKS
1. City: Great Fire monument
2. Hampstead circular walk: Fenton House, 2 Willow Road, Heath, Grade I Burgh House since 1704, Holly Hill
3. Jubilee Greenway: Buckingham Palace to Little Venice
4. Regent’s Canal Towpath: Little Venice to King’s Cross
6. Jubilee Walkway: Camden Loop
7. Thames Path: Hampton Court to Thames Barrier
8. Green Chain Walk: Victorian dinosaur sculpture @Crystal Palace Park
9. Capital Ring: Syon Park, Finsbury Park, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Woolwich Foot Tunnel, Eltham Palace
10. London LOOP
- p. 64-65
LINE SCULPTURE TRAIL🗿
1. Anish Kapoor’s ArcelorMittal Orbit
2. Carsten Höller’s The Slide
3. Ron Haselden’s Diver
4. Tracey Emin’s A Moment without You
5. Simon Faithfull’s 0°00 Navigation
6. Laura Ford’s Bird Boy without a Tail
7. Anthony Gormley’s Quantum Cloud
8. Serge Attukwei Clottey’s Tribe & Tribulation
9. Richard Wilson’s A Slice of Reality
10. Thomson & Craighead’s Here
- p. 65
THAMES RIVER
1. HMS Belfast
3. Savoy Hotel: Thames Foyer, Savoy Grill
5. Millennium Bridge
6. Lambeth Palace: Archbishop of Canterbury
7. Curry Sark tea clipper
8. St Katharine Docks
- p. 68-69
OFF THE BEATEN TRACK
1. St Clement Danes: RAF church
2. E Pellicci breakfast
3. Puppet Theatre Barge
4. Benjamin Franklin House
5. Postal Museum
6. London Fields: Hackney Museum
7. Temple
8. Postman’s Park
9. Old Operating Theatre: oldest surgical theatre via spiral staircase
- p. 70-71
FAMILY ATTRACTIONS
1. Science Museum
3. Mudchute Park & Farm
5. Sea Life Aquarium
6. Diana Memorial Playground
7. Young V&A: toy museum
8. Coram’s Fields
9. Battersea Park
- p. 72-73
LONDON DISHES
1. Oldest fish & chips: Rock & Sole Plaice
4. Tooting: South Asian curry
5. Jamaican jerk chicken: Fish, Wings, Tings
6. Falafel wrap: Edgware Road’s kofta, kibbeh, mezze
7. Pie & mash: 19c M Manze’s parsley-based liquor
9. Kebab: Turkish @Tottenham/Haringey or Lewisham/Peckham
10. Pizza: Pizza Express @Clerkenwell
- p. 78-79
South Asian curries:
1. Chicken tikka masala: spicy marinade
2. Madras: spicily sour with yogurt raita
3. Biriyani
4. Korma: sweet coconut sauce
5. Balti: garlic-onion sauce
6. Faal: hottest ground chili peppers
7. Masala dosa: crepe with potato curry, chutney, vegetable stew
8. Jalfrezi: spicy, stir-fried capsicum, onion, tomato
9. Tandoori
10. Vindaloo: Bangladeshi-Goan curry
- p. 79
PUBS
1. Dog & Duck: Victorian
2. George Inn: galleried coaching
3. Holy Tavern: 18c coffee & ale
4. Spaniards Inn: 16c Turpin Bar beer
5. Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese: grub
6. Grapes: Ian McKellen’s heated waterside deck
7. Princess Louise 19c Sam Smith beer, pie, pudding
8. Anchor & Hope: slow-cooked venison, south coast skate
9. French House: Breton cider, wine, earthy dining upstairs
10. Lamb & Flag: Charles Dickens
- p. 80-81
SHOPS & MARKETS
1. Fortnum & Mason: ground floor English food hall
3. Harrods: ice cream, sushi
4. Harvey Nichols: Fifth Floor Café
7. Portobello Road: Saturday antiques
8. Camden Market: Amy Winehouse @Chalk Farm
9. Daunt Books: Edwardian oak galleries & stained-glass conservatory
10. Liberty: wood panels & floor, floral fabric, home furnishing
- p. 82-83
WESTMINSTER, SOUTH BANK, SOUTHWARK
8. Southbank Centre arts
• Marriott Hotel: Former Greater London Council HQ, breakfast
• Lambeth Pier café
• National COVID Memorial Wall
• Gabriel Wharf craft shops
• Oxo Tower: designer galleries, viewing platform
• Anchor pub
16. Florence Nightingale Museum
• Shopping: Houses of Parliament, Lower Marsh Market (vinyl/craft/food), National Theatre Bookshop play texts & gifts, Fri AM Bermondsey Antiques, Konditor brownies
• Pubs & Cafes: Southwark Tavern, Gentlemen Baristas bowler hat coffee & pastries, Monmouth Coffee, Wheatsheaf beer/burgers/pizza, Kings Arms ale & Thai food, The Rake beer
• Restaurants: Cinnamon Club🇮🇳, Skylon🇬🇧, Lupins, Roast🇬🇧, Archduke steak/burgers/cocktails, 50 Kalò di Ciro Salvo’s Neapolitan pizza, Pizarro’s Iberian meat, Oxo Tower’s cheaper brasserie jazz, Globe’s Swan, Fish!
- p. 90-97
SOHO & WEST END
5. Photographers’ Gallery
6. Old Compton St: I Camisa & Son🇮🇹, Vintage House wine
8. Berwick St Market fruit
9. SoHo Square🏓
• Dumplings’ Legend 小笼包, Baozilnn, Maison Bertaux tea & cake
Shopping: Foyles/Waterstones books, Liberty fabrics, Lina Stores pasta, Algerian Coffee Stores
Late-night: Pizza Express jazz, 100 Wardour St, SoHo Theatre Bar, Ronnie Scott’s jazz, Balans No60 burgers, Disrepute, Crazy Cogs, Cahoots🚉,, El Camion🇲🇽
Pubs & Cafes: Bar Italia, My Place SoHo, Breakfast Club disco hash, Victorian pub John Snow, Cork & Bottle eclectic wine, journalists’ pub Coach & Horses
Restaurants: Seafood Bar, Hoppers 🇱🇰lentil pancakes, Burger & Lobster, Bao 🇹🇼pork confit, Imad’s Syrian Kitchen babaganoush, Yauatcha scallop siew mai & venison puff pastry, J Sheekey’s Cornish fish stew, Kricket 🇮🇳sharing, Busaba Eathai pad thai, Barrafina tapas
- p. 98-105
COVENT GARDEN
1. Somerset House: Courtauld Gallery
2. Piazza & Central Mkt: My Fair Lady
3. Royal Opera: Victorian wrought-iron floral hall restaurant
4. Seven Dials Mkt food
6. Floral St: Court’s Petersham Nurseries
7. London Transport Museum
8. Neal’s Yard: Dairy cheese, Homeslice pizza, St John Bakery pastries
9. St Paul’s Church
10. Theatre Royal Drury Ln
• Benjamin Pollock’s Toyshop, 180 Studios
11. Bow St Police Museum
12. Donmar Warehouse
13. Royal Opera Hse backstage tour
14. Edwardian Coliseum
15. Cleopatra’s Needle
16. Embankment Pier’s river cruises
17. Victoria Embankment Gdns
18. Freemasons’ Hall museum
19. gold-white St Mary-le-Strand
Shops: Tintin, Stanfords travel coffeeshop, St Martin’s Courtyard, FOPP, Penhaligon fragrant candles
Pubs/Cafes: Ladurée, WatchHouse/Grind/FREVD coffee, La Gelatiera honey/rosemary/orange, Lowlander Grand Café/Porterhouse Euro beer, Gordon’s Wine Bar
Dining: Ivy, Barbary’s N African, Mon Plaisir, Delaunay, Cora Pearl🇬🇧, Chick’n’Sours, Rules oyster/pie/game, Souk🇲🇦
- p. 106-113
BLOOMSBURY/FITZROVIA
2. British Library
3. Sir John Soane’s Museum 12/2pm tours
4. Charles Dickens Museum
5. University College London: Grant Zoology Museum
7. St Pancras Renaissance Hotel
8. Foundling Museum
9. Fitzroy Sq: Shaw, Woolf
10. BT Twr
• Jarndyce book/print, Bloomsbury Sq, ROKA Jap bbq, Brunswick Ctr, Curzon cinema
Shops: La Fromagerie’s Beaufort Chalet d’Alpage, Hobgoblin Music, Heals furniture café, Maggie Owen jewelry, Contemporary Ceramics, James Smith & Sons umbrellas, L Cornelissen pigments, London Review books
Eat/Drink: Truckles of Pied Bull Yard wine, House of Hô pho, Hakkasan, Salt Yard iberico confit & grilled octopus, Dalloway Terrace, Norfolk Arms tapas, Victorian mahogany pub Princess Louise, Cosmoba🇮🇹
- p. 116-121
MAYFAIR & ST JAMES’
3. Royal Academy of Arts
4. St James’ Palace: brick Tudor gatehouse
6. Shepherd Mkt: Ye Grapes, Titu, Misto, Iran
7. Berkeley Sq: oldest trees & Churchill’s #48
8. Royal Institution: Faraday Museum
9. Apsley Hse
10. Burlington Arcade
• St James’ Café/Church, Cork St galleries, Brown’s Hotel tea
Shops: Charbonnel et Walker chocolate, Gieves & Hawkes tailor, Paxton & Whitfield cheese, Sotheby’s, Hatchards books
Eat/Drink: Sketch: Lecture Rm, 🇹🇭Ye Grapes, 🇬🇧Galvin at Windows, Café Murano, Dover🇮🇹🇺🇸, Ritz harpist, Wolseley, 🇪🇸El Pirata, Wild Honey
- p. 122-127
KENSINGTON/KNIGHTSBRIDGE
8. Holland Pk: House, Kyoto Gdn, Opera
10. Leighton Hse
• Brompton Oratory, Beauchamp Plc, Kensington Palace Pavilion
14. Royal Geographical Society
16. Electric Cinema
17. Royal College of Music museum
18. LookOut
19. Speakers’ Corner
20. Design Museum
Shops: Artisan au Chocolat, Designers Guild fabric, Cutler & Gross eyewear, John Sandoe books, Ceramica Blue
Pub/Cafe: Montparnasse, Scarsdale Tavern ale, Nags Head’s Adnams beer, Castle craft beer, Anglesea Arms ale, Trailer Happiness rum cocktail, Victorian pub Paxtons Head, Portobello Stalls’ Acklam Village Mkt
Restaurant: Clarke’s, Euro Belvedere, Kitchen W8🇫🇷, Amaya🇮🇳, Core by Clare Smyth, 🇷🇺Mari Vanna, Ledbury, Claude Bosi @Bibendum oysters, Ognisko🇵🇱, Heston Blumenthal’s Dinner
- p. 128-135
REGENT’S PARK & MARYLEBONE
5. Cricket Museum
7. Wigmore Hall
9. BBC Broadcasting Hall
• Mithraeum
Shops: Alfie’s Antique, Marylebone Farmers’, Conran Shop chairs, Dr Marten’s, oak Daunt Books, Marylebone Lane, John Lewis, Selfridges & Co food hall, Le Labo perfumes
Eat/Drink: Wallace Restaurant, Artesian cocktails, Caldesi🇮🇹, Reubens salt beef sandwich, Pachamama tapas, Golden Hind calamari & fish&chips, Queen’s Head & Artichoke, Locanda Locatelli, Ivy Café
- p. 136-141
LONDON CITY
Churches: 17c St Katharine Cree, Holy Sepulchre bells, St Mary-le-Bow, St Magnus the Martyr pulpit, All Hallows by the Tower guided Saxon tour, St Stephen Walbrook, baroque St Mary Woolnoth, St Lawrence Jewry stained glass
Eat/Drink: Viaduct Tavern, Hawksmoor Guildhall steakhouse, Sweetings potted shrimp & Dover sole/plaice, Jugged Hare roast game, Holy Tavern, City Càphê pho, 1 Lombard St🇬🇧, Café Below
- p. 146-147
December 13, 2023
These are not my favorite kind of travel books; they have gorgeous photos, but they seem to be shallow books with no depth to their writing. That being said, it does break things down to make them easy to find, but it makes for a very scattered read.
March 14, 2025
Seems to be a good overview of the city (which I haven’t yet visited) which is organized around many top ten lists.
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