Restaurants

Medcalf

This ex-butcher’s shop has been a big hit since opening, its scruffy-chic looks, robust cooking, relaxed staff and unpretentious vibe attracting steady custom....

Clerkenwell: 38-40 Exmouth Market, EC1R 4QE

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Moro

Now a plucky 11 years old, Moro has an enduring popularity that seems unassailable. It’s fully booked night after night, so phone at least 48 hours ahead if you want...

Clerkenwell: 34-36 Exmouth Market, EC1R 4QE

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Ambassador

Who needs diplomatic relations with France when the Ambassador creates so well the food we hope to find there? A proper all-day café, with wide-open doors and tables...

Clerkenwell: 55 Exmouth Market, EC1R 4QL

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Santoré

Located in a dining hotspot, this pizza and pasta joint is competing well. The spacious dining room with large windows has an outdoors-in feel (and can get chilly)....

Clerkenwell: 59-61 Exmouth Market, EC1R 4QL

Distance: 0 mls

Cottons

Cottons has long set London’s benchmark for West Indian cooking. Both branches attract a smart set of Caribbean connoisseurs, although it’s this outlet that’s...

Farringdon: 70 Exmouth Market, EC1R 4QP

Distance: 0 mls

La Porchetta

Farringdon: 84-86 Rosebery Avenue, EC1R 4QY

Distance: 0.1 mls

Old China Hand

Situated on Tysoe Street in Clerkenwell, the Old China Hand quirkily combines its Irish pub past with its new Eastern personality in a combination of first-rate real...

Islington: 8 Tysoe Street Clerkenwell , London, EC1R 4RQ

Distance: 0.1 mls

Strada

Clerkenwell: 8-10 Exmouth Market, EC1R 4QA

Distance: 0.1 mls

Dollar Grills & Martinis

Dramatically located in a huge old corner pub, its bare-brick walls covered in eye-catching Vegas imagery beneath almost theatrical lighting, Dollar isn’t really...

Clerkenwell: 2 Exmouth Market, EC1R 4PX

Distance: 0.1 mls

Quality Chop House

Quality Chop House currently seems to be on a roll. After the odd menu glitch last year, this time around every dish was worth ordering. Spinach, bacon, avocado and...

Clerkenwell: 92-94 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3EA

Distance: 0.1 mls

Easton

Hearty is the obvious word to use about the Easton’s full-on food. A lamb and rosemary pie with beans, mash and gravy featured deliciously crisp pastry, and could...

Clerkenwell: 22 Easton Street, WC1X 0DS

Distance: 0.1 mls

Eagle

The Eagle still doesn’t have a blue plaque outside, but probably merits one, as it is widely credited with being the first London gastropub (opened in its present...

Farringdon: 159 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3AL

Distance: 0.1 mls

Little Bay

Linda Barker would aspire to produce an interior so inventive, but while there’s no denying the makeshift Changing Roomsvibe here (oh, the crimes that can be...

Farringdon: 171 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3AL

Distance: 0.1 mls

Clerkenwell Kitchen

Sustainable cooking

Clerkenwell: 27-31 Clerkenwell Close, EC1R 0AT

Distance: 0.1 mls

54

Furnishings are inexpensive but stylish in this small dining room: simple wood furniture, multi-coloured seat covers, batik prints, carved screen, and small mirrors...

City: 54 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3BL

Distance: 0.2 mls

Coach & Horses

A handsome pub (apart from the dingy ‘outside’ room sandwiched between bar and beer garden), the Coach & Horses does its best to appeal to drinkers and diners....

Clerkenwell: 26-28 Ray Street, EC1R 3DJ

Distance: 0.2 mls

Rasa - Maricham

If you're a fan of the Rasa restaurants, and there are many of you about, or just a fan of Keralan cuisine, then you should make a beeline for Rasa Maricham....

Chancery Lane: 1 Kings Cross Rd , London, WC1X 9HX

Distance: 0.2 mls

Dans Le Noir

For a colourful night out, try this pitch black restaurant where customers are served and guided around the room by blind staff – and no one is allowed to move...

Farringdon: 30-31 Clerkenwell Green, EC1R 0DU

Distance: 0.2 mls

Peasant

Although we’ve had meals of varying quality here in the past, on a recent visit the Peasant launched itself into the upper class. The giant main bar of this old...

Clerkenwell: 240 St John Street, EC1V 4PH

Distance: 0.2 mls

Yo! Sushi

Farringdon: 95 Farringdon Road, EC1R 3BT

Distance: 0.2 mls

The Well

Situated in the heart of Clerkenwell, The Well is a gastropub with a difference. Chef Oliver Badham serves traditional British pub food with a twist, whilst underneath...

Farringdon: 180 St John Street , London, EC1V 4JY

Distance: 0.3 mls

Well

Part of Tom and Ed Martin’s gastropub group, which includes the Gun in Docklands , the Well exudes an easy bonhomie and self-assurance, with its exposed brick walls,...

Clerkenwell: 180 St John Street, EC1V 4JY

Distance: 0.3 mls

Potemkin

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

Distance: 0.3 mls

Darbucka

Darbucka bar in Clerkenwell has a fabulous concept. They serve fresh Lebanese cuisine on 2 levels. The upstairs restaurant features a mix of high and low tables,...

Farringdon: 182 St John Street , London, EC1V 4JZ

Distance: 0.3 mls

Passage Café

You dream of (but rarely get) places like this in provincial France. The Passage is a tiny finger of a venue with hardly room for 20 diners – though there’s a few...

City: 12 Jerusalem Passage, EC1V 4JP

Distance: 0.3 mls

Cantina Augusto

Located in the heart of Clerkenwell, Cantina Augusto is a friendly neighbourhood eatery that has always been popular with the locals – especially the Farringdon...

Chancery Lane: 91 - 95 Clerkenwell Road , London, EC1R 5BX

Distance: 0.3 mls

Anexo

Wedged into the Turnmills building, Anexo offers a dark space heaving with office workers celebrating the home-time bell; in summer the open frontage adds traffic...

Farringdon: 61 Turnmill Street, EC1M 5PT

Distance: 0.3 mls

Aki

Aficionados of Japanese food know that it’s the cooking, not the unassuming and rather worn decor, that counts here. The multitude of small dishes are made to be...

Holborn: 182 Gray's Inn Road, WC1X 8EW

Distance: 0.3 mls

The Fish Shop

In summer, this spacious three-level fish restaurant comes into its own when the outdoor terrace is hopping and the light streams into the upstairs/ downstairs dining...

Islington: 360-362 St John Street, EC1V 4NR

Distance: 0.3 mls