Restaurants

Fryer's Delight

This old-school Bloomsbury chippie has long been a cabbies’ favourite. On our visit, dispiritingly true to form, there was a pair discussing the hopes of the BNP...

Holborn: 19 Theobald's Road, WC1X 8SL

Distance: 0.1 mls

Bacco Restaurant and Wine Bar

Located on Red Lion Street, just a stones throw from Chancery Lane and Covent Garden, Bacco is a warm and welcoming restaurant and wine bar – perfect for post-work...

Holborn: 25 - 26 Red Lion Street , London, WC1R 4PS

Distance: 0.1 mls

The Bountiful Cow

The Bountiful Cow is one generous beast: a public house devoted to beef. Executive chef Roxy Beaujolais (of Seven Stars and TV fame) serves large steaks and larger...

Holborn: 51 Eagle Street Holborn , London, WC1R 4AP

Distance: 0.1 mls

Cafe Pasta - High Holborn

If you love your carbs half as much as we do, you will adore the menu at Café Pasta in High Holborn. Bright and colourful, this restaurant is busy with business types...

Holborn: 95 - 97 High Holborn , London, WC1V 6LF

Distance: 0.1 mls

Pizza Express

Holborn: 99 High Holborn, WC1V 6LF

Distance: 0.1 mls

Tandoori Raj

Tandoori Raj restaurant (formerly the Red Pepper) is a few steps from London’s thriving High Holborn and just five minutes’ stroll from the Holborn and Chancery...

Chancery Lane: 65 Red Lion Street , London, WC1R 4NA

Distance: 0.1 mls

Thai Dream

Locals in the know will tell you that Thai Dream is one of the last authentic, family-run Thai restaurants in Bloomsbury. The friendly neighbourhood vibe,...

Holborn: 17 New North Street Boswell Court , London, WC1N 3PJ

Distance: 0.1 mls

Bea's of Bloomsbury

Multi-tiered special-occasional cakes make a spectacular window display at Bea Vo’s plush café. At the rear, three steps lead up to the open-plan sky-lit kitchen,...

Bloomsbury: 44 Theobald's Road, WC1X 8NW

Distance: 0.1 mls

Matsuri

Large floor-to-ceiling windows at Matsuri’s corner site keep the lively Holborn surroundings in view, but at bay. Interior furnishings consist of subtle wooden...

Holborn: 71 High Holborn, WC1V 6EA

Distance: 0.1 mls

La Porchetta

Members of this four-strong group feel more like local trattorias than part of a chain – and are all the better for it. The homely Holborn branch seems full with...

Bloomsbury: 33 Boswell Street, WC1N 3BP

Distance: 0.1 mls

Spaghetti House - Sicilian Avenue

It took the warmth and passion of the folks behind Spaghetti House to convince postwar London to give Italian cooking a try way back in the 1950's, and we've been...

Holborn: 20 Sicilian Avenue Vernon Place , London, WC1A 2QD

Distance: 0.1 mls

ASK

Bloomsbury: 74 Southampton Row, WC1B 4AR

Distance: 0.1 mls

Hason Raja

It's not everyday a restaurant is named after a 19th century Bangladeshi poet come playboy, but there's more than a famous name to grab your attention at Hason Raja....

Holborn: 84 Southampton Row , London, WC1B 4BB

Distance: 0.2 mls

Waterfalls Restaurant

Conveniently located in the Russell Square Park Inn Hotel, Waterfalls Restaurant is ideally situated for tourists, local office workers, shoppers and local diners...

Bloomsbury: Park Inn London, Russell Square Hotel , London, WC1B 4BH

Distance: 0.2 mls

Cigala

You’d be unlikely to guess from the Scandinavian-style decor (white walls, blonde furniture, gleaming white-clothed tables), that Cigala’s a tapas restaurant....

Bloomsbury: 54 Lamb's Conduit Street, WC1N 3LW

Distance: 0.2 mls

Pearl Bar & Restaurant

A few yards east of the dreary Holborn crossroads is the Chancery Court Hotel. Its hand-sculpted follies, turrets and general historical loveliness are worth standing...

Holborn: Chancery Court Hotel, 252 High Holborn, WC1V 7EN

Distance: 0.2 mls

Hummus Bros

Holborn: Victoria House, 37-63 Southampton Row, WC1B 4DA

Distance: 0.2 mls

Bar Polski

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

Distance: 0.2 mls

Asadal

Korean food and romantic dining rarely go hand in hand, so this elegant basement restaurant next to Holborn tube is something to be treasured. The dining room is dark...

Holborn: 227 High Holborn, WC1V 7DA

Distance: 0.2 mls

Pizza Express

Holborn: 114 Southampton Row, WC1B 5AA

Distance: 0.2 mls

Denise's Restaurant

Denise’s has barely changed since it opened in 1989. On any given day over half the diners are regulars. "Hello! So nice to see you!" says amiable owner/manager...

Bloomsbury: 79 Southampton Row , London, WC1B 4ET

Distance: 0.2 mls

Paul

Holborn: 296-298 High Holborn, WC1V 7JH

Distance: 0.2 mls

Fleet River Bakery

Artisan café adds life to Holborn

Holborn: 71 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3JF

Distance: 3563.7 mls

My Old Dutch - Holborn

One of the most renowned pancake restaurants in the capital, you shan’t experience a better or more authentic Pannekoek (that’s a traditional Dutch pancake,...

Holborn: 131 - 132 High Holborn Holborn , London, WC1V 6PS

Distance: 0.2 mls

Gandhi's Restaurant

A traditional Indian restaurant in the heart of the Chancery Lane and Holborn areas, Gandhi’s is the perfect stop off before a night out or after a hard day’s...

Chancery Lane: 35 Gray's Inn Road , London, WC1X 8PG

Distance: 0.2 mls

Crane & Tortoise

Good-value Japanese bar with food in Clerkenwell

Clerkenwell: 39-41 Gray's Inn Rd, WC1X 8PR

Distance: 3563.7 mls

Sushi Hiroba

Roll up, roll up. This is a two-ring sushi circus where every act is a dazzler, every dish has crunch and colour, and the two-lane conveyor belt goes round and round...

Holborn: 50-54 Kingsway, WC2B 6EP

Distance: 0.2 mls