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Baltic’s wow factor never wanes. Make your way through the lively bar to the high-ceilinged main room, its stark whiteness punctuated by exposed beams, bare red...
Waterloo: 74 Blackfriars Road, SE1 8HA
In an effort to rein in the hyperbole, we will say that we can think of one downside to an evening spent dining at Café Grove – a meal there does serve to...
Ealing: 65 The Grove, W5 5LL
Czech/Slovak food is never going to win prizes for subtlety: think dumplings, potatoes and cream by the bucket-load. Even early in the week, the Czechoslovak...
West Hampstead: Czech & Slovak House, 74 West End Lane, NW6 2LX
Conjure up a stern auntie lovingly preparing all your favourites in her kitchen in downtown Tbilisi: that’s Little Georgia. There’s no licence, which means no...
Bethnal Green: 87 Goldsmiths Row, E2 8QR
The charming owner, warmly greeting newcomers and regulars, has got things just right. Peachy walls, velvet curtains and gilt-framed mirrors make Antony’s cosy and...
Bayswater: 54 Porchester Road, W2 6ET
Has Bar Polski taken its eye off the ball? This long-time favourite was always primarily a bar, but it was also somewhere you could enjoy decent Polish home-style...
Holborn: 11 Little Turnstile, WC1V 7DX
As we went to press, Café Wanda was closed for refurbishment, which is welcome news as there was more than a whiff of the 1970s at this highly individual café and...
Clapham: 153 Clapham High Street, SW4 7SS
What’s not to love about Daquise, unless you’re an aspiring size zero? This cherished café has clocked up over 50 years of purveying no-nonsense Polish home...
South Kensington: 20 Thurloe Street, SW7 2LT
Having opened to some dire reviews, Divo has worked wonders transforming itself from a post-Soviet Ukrainian kitsch temple to a restrained, reasonably priced modern...
St James's: 12 Waterloo Place, SW1Y 4AU
Despite now being owned by a big hotel group, this venerable Soho institution retains a certain intimacy and old-school charm that’s rare in London. From...
Soho: 2 Greek Street, W1D 4NB
It can get frenetic here on a busy lunchtime as well-heeled locals popping in for takeaway tabouleh and olives get entangled with the eat-in crowd. The system of...
South Kensington: 20 Gloucester Road, SW7 4RB
Knaypa certainly makes a design statement, with its rippled purple plastic ceiling, coloured mirrors on the walls, spotlights on the floor and shocking red leather...
Hammersmith: 268 King Street, W6 0SP
Functioning like a portal into a different country and another time, Lowiczanka is housed in a concrete cultural centre that seems to have been airlifted-in from a...
Hammersmith: First floor, 238-246 King Street, W6 0RF
Georgian food, popular all over the former Soviet Union for its breath of spicy exoticism, is enjoyed at Mimino by expats and cosmopolitan locals. Early in the week...
Kensington: 197C Kensington High Street, W8 6BA
The cooking seems to be getting less reliable, but Patio retains a quirky charm. With its £15.99 four-course set menu (including complimentary vodka, pre-dessert...
Shepherd's Bush: 5 Goldhawk Road, W12 8QQ
One window of this deli-restaurant features posters of strapping men advertising the likes of muscle-building powders. At the front is a tiny shop offering a range of...
Hammersmith: 258 King Street, W6 0SP
Across the road from the Polish Kosciol Chrystusa Krola church, this white building hasn’t changed much since the 1930s. Inside, it could be any other social club,...
Balham: 211 Balham High Road, SW17 7BQ
On occasion we’ve found Potemkin’s ground-floor restaurant over-formal and the food disappointing, but our most recent visit showed it on good form. Service was...
Clerkenwell: 144 Clerkenwell Road, EC1R 5DP
Stara Polska is reminiscent of a small-town restaurant somewhere in darkest 1980s Poland, with kitsch decor and uncomfortable cod-rustic pine furniture. Sour zurek got...
Marylebone: 69 Marylebone Lane, W1U 2PH
Tbilisi remains a mystery. Even after years of favourable reviews from us, a well-priced menu, stylish dark-red decor, and a laid-back jazzy soundtrack – it rarely...
Holloway: 91 Holloway Road, N7 8LT
The more we visit Trojka, the more we like its easy-going, cosy atmosphere and good hearty East European food. Where better to repair for a steaming bowl of borscht or...
Chalk Farm: 101 Regents Park Road, NW1 8UR
The less flamboyant, more intimate predecessor of Baltic , Wódka opened in an old dairy in the late 1980s: note the antique tiles. The premises have been brought up...
Kensington: 12 St Alban's Grove, W8 5PN
By day, this is an old-school Italian eaterie on a baronial scale, decorated by incongruous jazz-themed murals. At weekends, it transforms into a Romanian party venue,...
City: 32 Old Bailey, EC4M 7HS
With yellow walls, leather chairs and spare decor (save for an incongruous bird-bath affair), Zorya is undoubtedly attractive, but it can get stuffy. A quiet summer...
Chalk Farm: 48 Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8AJ
Carefully hidden away in the basement of the London Guards Hotel in Bayswater, this down-to-earth dining institution is loved by Russian ex-pats and vodka lovers...
Bayswater: 36 - 37 Lancaster Gate London Guards Hotel , London, W2 3NA
Lusciously decorated Russian restaurant to transport you back to Tsarist Russia. Plus if it's good enough for Elton John... Nikita's served Elton John's 450 celebrity...
Earl's Court: 65 Ifield Road Earls Court , London, SW10 9AU
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