Impressing Out of Towners
Impressing Out of Towners
Page 4Tavolino
Tavolino has big booths, a massive terrace overlooking Tower Bridge, and a cacio e pepe you definitely want to eat. What more could you need?
Plaza Khao Gaeng
Plaza Khao Gaeng is a fantastic, fun, and flavourful Thai restaurant on the mezzanine level above Arcade Food Hall. Everything on the menu packs a punch.
Normah’s
Normah's is a hidden spot inside Queensway Market serving the best Malaysian food in London.
The George
The George is a classy central London pub. It combines a boozy downstairs with a decadent dining room upstairs that serves delicious and faultless British classics at a not insignificant price.
Noble Rot Soho
Noble Rot’s second restaurant slips effortlessly into Soho with a familiar sense of style, comfort, and potential sordidness.
Bistrotheque
Bistrotheque is a neighbourhood bistro set in an old warehouse, with art projected on the walls and a cool, east London ambience.
Trishna
Trishna is an excellent posh yet casual Indian restaurant in Marylebone, where casual is relative and a good credit line is required for the meal.
The Cadogan Arms
A jaw-dropping pub refurb on the King’s Road in Chelsea, that serves simple and delightful meals and bar snacks in a refined setting.
Brasserie Zédel
Brasserie Zédel is a classic all-day brasserie in Soho, serving affordable steak frites in a huge, beautiful space.
Barrafina Soho
Barrafina is a legendary Soho tapas restaurant that’s always crowded but always worth the wait.
Gunpowder
Gunpowder is a simply designed little restaurant off Commercial Street serving extremely inventive takes on Indian food that will blow your mind.
Pollen Street Social
Pollen Street Social is an excellent fine dining spot in Mayfair, but it feels like the kind of restaurant you want to go to all the time.
Kama By Vineet
This spot inside the Harrods Dining Hall closes early, but the excellent Indian food means that you should go here.
J Sheekey
J Sheekey is a classic West End post-theatre hang where you might spot a celebrity and will be guaranteed to have a great meal.
Fischer’s
Fischer’s is a Viennese inspired brasserie in Marylebone specialising in Austrian classics like schnitzel and käsespätzle.
Kerridge’s Bar And Grill
Kerridge’s Bar and Grill near Embankment serves tarted up (and expensive) English classics, and nothing about it is hard to get on with.
14 Hills
If you’re into big views, big booths, and err, big plants, you’ll like City skyline spot, 14 Hills.
Sexy Fish
Sexy Fish is a flash seafood place in Mayfair. It’s fairly funny, fairly vulgar, and it serves food that’s rarely anything more than fine.
Sketch
The Gallery at Sketch is a Mayfair restaurant with the most photographed toilets in London. It also serves stupidly expensive and mostly inedible food.
Duck & Waffle Local
Duck and Waffle’s second location doesn’t have spectacular views, nor is it open 24 hours, but it’s a solid low risk option in Piccadilly.
Cecconi’s
Located in the epic lobby of the new Ned hotel in the City, Cecconi’s is a posh Italian restaurant that has the business lunch crowd locked down.
Kitty Fisher’s
Kitty Fisher’s is a great restaurant in Mayfair serving hedonistic plates of simple, rich, and delicious British food.
The Hero Of Maida
The Hero of Maida is a bright and airy pub in Maida Vale serving some of London’s best French bistro food.