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LONDON CITY
Church: 17c St Katharine Cree, Holy Sepulchre bells, St Mary-le-Bow, St Magnus the Martyr pulpit, All Hallows by the Tower Saxon tour, St Stephen Walbrook, baroque St Mary Woolnoth, St Lawrence Jewry stainglass
Eat/Drink: Viaduct Tavern, Hawksmoor Guildhall steak, Sweetings potted shrimp & Dover sole/plaice, Jugged Hare roast game, Holy Tavern, City Càphê pho, 1 Lombard St, Café Below
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REGENT’S PARK & MARYLEBONE
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
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REGENT’S PARK & MARYLEBONE
5. Cricket Museum
7. Wigmore Hall
9. BBC Broadcasting Hall
• Mithraeum
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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 Sandler books, Ceramica Blue
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MAYFAIR & ST JAMES’
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
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MAYFAIR & ST JAMES’
3. Royal Academy of Arts
4. St James’ Palace: brick Tudor gatehouse
6. Shepherd Mkt: Ye Grapes, Titu, Misti, 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, Briwn’s Hotel tea
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Shops: La Fromagerie’s Beaufort Chalet d’Alpage, Hobgoblin Music, Heals furniture café, Maggie Owen jewelry, Contemporary Ceramics, James Smith brollies, 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🇮🇹

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
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Shops: Tintin, Stanfords travel coffeeshop, St Martin’s Courtyard, FOPP, Penhaligon’s fragrant candles
Pubs/Cafes: Ladurée, WatchHouse/Grind/FREVD coffee, La Gelateria 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🇲🇦
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COVENT GARDEN
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
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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 toys, 180 Studios
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SOHO & WEST END
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
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SOHO & WEST END
Pubs & Cafes: Bar Italia, My Place SoHo, Breakfast Club disco hash, Victorian pub John Snow, Cork & Bottle eclectic wine, journalists’ pub Coach & Horses
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SOHO & WEST END
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🇲🇽
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WESTMINSTER, SOUTH BANK, SOUTHWARK
• 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!
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WESTMINSTER, SOUTH BANK, SOUTHWARK
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
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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
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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: 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 upstair dining
10. Lamb & Flag: Dickens
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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