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London’s New Bar Openings
From low-key wine bars to big-deal cocktail spots, these are the new great places to have a drink that you should know about.
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Where To Watch Football & Eat Good Food
11 spots to eat good food and (maybe) watch good football.
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15 Of London’s Nicest Pub Gardens
There’s no better place to spend a summer’s day (or night) than in one of London’s 192,000 beer gardens. Here are 15 of the best.
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11 Places To Grab A Drink Where You Can Also Get Good Food
When getting a drink is the priority, but you also want the option to eat something good, use this guide.
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12 Places To Go For A Drink When You’re Not Drinking
You could nurse a glass of lime and soda in any London pub. But when you’re off the booze, these are the places to go for a really great drink.
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Where To Meet Up With Someone For Exactly 1 Hour So You Can Go Home & Be Alone Again
Now that “catching up” is suddenly everyone’s favourite activity, it’s time to practice the art of the hour-long drink-and-snack.
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Where To Eat When You’re Already Full
You’re a grown up, you wouldn’t do something like over do it before going out. Oh, what’s that? You would. Okay then. This guide is for you.
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Noble Rot Mayfair
With two bars and an extra extensive wine list, Noble Rot's location in Mayfair is just as good for pop-ins as it is for very long, very lazy modern European-leaning meals.
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Authentique
Authentique in Tufnell Park is a Francophone wine shop and bar that’s a perfect spot for a glass of something before moving on elsewhere.
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Frank’s Cafe
Frank’s Cafe in Peckham is a rooftop bar with the most impressive view of the London skyline, and has the added bonus of serving reasonably priced drinks.
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Skylight Peckham
A rooftop bar with a private beach club feel, Skylight Peckham is good for cocktails and epic views.
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London’s New Bar Openings
From low-key wine bars to big-deal cocktail spots, these are the new great places to have a drink that you should know about.
LDNGuide
Where To Watch Football & Eat Good Food
11 spots to eat good food and (maybe) watch good football.
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Primeur
Between Stoke Newington and Canonbury, Primeur is the gold standard of flickering candlelight, romantic restaurants in London. You'll enjoy the small plates and love the atmosphere.
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Plaquemine Lock
Plaquemine Lock is a Creole restaurant in Islington, specialising in Southern food in a converted pub.
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The Watergate
If you need a slick, stylish spot that’s good for impressing mates and dates with cocktails and pretty European-leaning small plates, The Watergate in Deptford is it.
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M’arks of Deptford
M’arks of Deptford—a pub-ish looking spot on the corner of Deptford High Street—is a casual, take your time kind of place. Whether that’s for a buffalo wing lunch or a Sunday roast.
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Isla Ray
Isla Ray is a colourful and quirky tropical-themed cafe on Deptford High Street, ideal for all day and all night.
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Lulu's
A neighbourhood wine bar and restaurant of the most rom-com variety, Lulu's is a lovely place in Herne Hill for drinks, dinner, and more.
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Oranj
Oranj is a moody industrial wine bar in Shoreditch with some great changing chef residencies in the kitchen.
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The Cheese Barge
The move at The Cheese Barge in Paddington is to skip the hot dishes and instead share a bottle over a cheeseboard.
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Elliot's Hackney
The London Fields outpost of Elliot’s turns a busy and black bin-laden corner of Mare Street into something altogether more Kinfolk shoot-worthy and, for pizza and wine, it's still great.
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St. John Marylebone
Perfect for a glass of this and a bite of that, St. John's Marylebone location brings its idiosyncratic idea of British eating to a lively bar and restaurant.
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Hector’s
Along a quiet residential road and signalled by a buttercup-yellow awning, Hector’s is a petite cave à manger in De Beauvoir.
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11 Places To Grab A Drink Where You Can Also Get Good Food
When getting a drink is the priority, but you also want the option to eat something good, use this guide.
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12 Places To Go For A Drink When You’re Not Drinking
You could nurse a glass of lime and soda in any London pub. But when you’re off the booze, these are the places to go for a really great drink.
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Someday
Someday in Finsbury Park is great for flat whites during the day, and house margaritas, pizza, and group hangs come evening.
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Bottle + Rye
Bottle + Rye is a teeny, tiny wine bar in Brixton Village that's perfect for romancing and reminiscing.
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Planque
Planque is a Haggerston restaurant, wine bar and grape lovers’ idea of heaven, making excellent and unusual French-inspired small plates.
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B Street Deli
From flowers on sale by the door to perfect pistachio canelé, Bermondsey's B Street might just be London's most charming deli.