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5 London Restaurants You’ve Probably Been Told To Go To, But Shouldn’t
Spend long enough in London and someone you know will suggest going to one of these restaurants. Here’s what to do when that happens.
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A. Wong
Although A. Wong's food isn't bad, you're better off spending your money somewhere other than this dated Chinese fine dining restaurant in Victoria.
Donutelier
Donutelier is an OTT doughnut shop in Covent Garden with desserts that are too pretty to eat.
Park Chinois
Park Chinois is a David Lynch meets Butlin’s fever dream of a restaurant. It's mostly seedy but some of the food is surprisingly good.
Goddard & Gibbs
Goddard & Gibbs is a roomy and slick seafood restaurant in Shoreditch serving entirely forgettable food that will have you demanding a lifeboat.
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.
Sushisamba
Sushisamba is a loud restaurant on the 38th floor of the City’s Heron Tower. The views are undeniably excellent. Almost everything else is appalling.
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.
Parrillan
Parrillan is an outdoor King’s Cross grill-it-yourself restaurant that turns DIY into a big old FU.
Brasserie Of Light
Brasserie Of Light is a very shiny restaurant inside Selfridges. It’s got halfway decent people watching potential, but it’s really quite bad at food.
5 London Restaurants You’ve Probably Been Told To Go To, But Shouldn’t
Spend long enough in London and someone you know will suggest going to one of these restaurants. Here’s what to do when that happens.
The John Lewis Gardening Society
The John Lewis Gardening Society is a bar on top of the Oxford Street branch of John Lewis. It's all very pleasant.
Granary Square Brasserie
Granary Square Brasserie is a swish spot near Kings Cross serving classic brasserie food.