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The Best Restaurants Near The Barbican
From a bustling food market, to a British institution, to a Tuscan trattoria, and more. These are the 9 best restaurants near the Barbican.
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Where To Eat Dinner In East London (When You Hate East London)
Facing a dinner in East London but dreading the latest hipster food trends? Here’s where to get proper dinner out East without any of the fuss.
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Where To Have An Affordable Sit-Down Lunch In Farringdon
Home to some of the city’s best restaurants, the streets around Farringdon are also home to a clutch of affordable spots for a sit-down lunch.
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The Best Restaurants Near The Barbican
From a bustling food market, to a British institution, to a Tuscan trattoria, and more. These are the 9 best restaurants near the Barbican.
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Bouchon Racine
You can’t help but be immediately wooed by the old-school elegance of French restaurant Bouchon Racine in Farringdon.
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St. John
St. John in Clerkenwell is a special place. It’s often referred to as an institution. And having a meal at this British restaurant is one of the best things you can do.
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Quality Chop House
Quality Chop House is an excellent British restaurant in Clerkenwell that’s a natural at filling you up with good food and good wine.
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Trattoria Brutto
Brutto is a superb Florentine-inspired trattoria in Farringdon that you’re going want to come up with excuses to spend your time in.
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Luca
Luca is one of those restaurants that just makes you feel good. The Italian food is some of the best in London, and it has a warm, upscale vibe.
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The Coach
The Coach is a beautifully renovated pub near Farringdon. It’s a great place for a drink, but the French bistro food is fairly average.
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Ask For Janice
Ask For Janice in Farringdon is a useful all-day spot for a quick bite to eat, a catch-up coffee, or a casual post-work drink.
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Where To Have An Affordable Sit-Down Lunch In Farringdon
Home to some of the city’s best restaurants, the streets around Farringdon are also home to a clutch of affordable spots for a sit-down lunch.
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Quality Wines
Quality Wines is a shop, wine bar, and sandwich shop next door to Quality Chop House in Clerkenwell, that also serves great sharing plates at night.
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The Winemakers Club
Winemaker’s Club is an excellent wine bar in a series of old arches under the Holborn Viaduct in the City.
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Fare Bar and Canteen
Fare Bar and Canteen at the Clerkenwell end of Old Street has an all-day cafe and bar serving pizzas upstairs, and stylish restaurant downstairs.
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The Clerkenwell Kitchen
The Clerkenwell Kitchen is an unpretentious café in EC1, and a great place for an affordable and satisfying lunch away from the crowds.
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Tongue & Brisket
Tongue & Brisket on Leather Lane is a great spot to eat a proper sandwich. The salt beef on rye is good. The schnitzel is perhaps even better.
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Leather Lane Street Market
Leather Lane is a weekday street market between Farringdon and Holborn serving lunch to visitors and local office workers.
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Chamisse
Chamisse is a Lebanese restaurant serving generous mezze on the Farringdon/Bloomsbury borders.
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Smiths of Smithfield
Smiths of Smithfield is big on meat, upstairs is corporate card territory, but the café downstairs serves reasonably priced sandwiches and burgers.
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Ninth Ward
Ninth Ward is a low-lit bar near Farringdon with decent lunchtime food deals and a great burger.
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Clerk and Well
This Clerkenwell pub serves well priced Pan Asian cuisine making it perfect for a quick lunch.