Aaron Wong’s Reviews > DK Top 10 London > Status Update

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
- p. 140-14

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
- p. 128-133

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
- p. 126-127

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
- p. 122-125

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
- p. 116-119

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
- p. 109-110

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
- p. 106-109