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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: 0.1 mls
(Lunch and Pre-Theatre) 2 Courses from Set Menu and Coffee for £11Who 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
Distance: 0.3 mls
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: 0.7 mls
Sustainable cooking
Clerkenwell: 27-31 Clerkenwell Close, EC1R 0AT
Distance: 0.2 mls
Lucky are the folk of Smithfield that they get such a thoroughly modern Austrian café on their doorstep. Somehow this small square gem doesn’t feel crowded, every...
Farringdon: 70 Long Lane, EC1A 9EJ
Distance: 0.3 mls
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
Distance: 0.3 mls
The London branch of Delhi’s long-standing Moti Mahal chain sighs with restrained elegance. Its interior is furnished in muted colours, with dimmed lighting and...
Covent Garden: 45 Great Queen Street, WC2B 5AA
Distance: 0.9 mls
Book the Special Valentine menu £56 at Moti Mahal and you will receive a complimentary day at Harbour Club.£76 with wineEverything changed a few years back at this once down-at-heel Victorian backstreet boozer. A glossy gastropub reinvention means that while the tiled exterior, ornate...
Bloomsbury: 28 Leigh Street, WC1H 9EP
Distance: 0.9 mls
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: 0.3 mls
Within swaggering distance of the square mile, Portal serves Portuguese petiscos (tapas) and a full dining menu to City types, tuned-in tourists, and Portuguese...
Farringdon: 88 St John Street, EC1M 4EH
Distance: 0.2 mls
St John closed for a spring clean in summer 2008, but apart from a good scrub behind the ears, it’s business as usual at this leading light of the British revival...
Farringdon: 26 St John Street, EC1M 4AY
Distance: 0.2 mls
The restaurant at Clerkenwell’s foremost boutique hotel (a converted warehouse) is appropriately stylish: a lofty, airy space of subtle dark woods and deep maroons,...
Clerkenwell: 86-88 Clerkenwell Road, EC1M 5RJ
Distance: 0.1 mls
As converted banks go, this Grade II-listed building (originally home to a forerunner of NatWest) has a higher interest rate than most thanks to a central domed glass...
City: 1 Lombard Street, EC3V 9AA
Distance: 1 mls
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: 0.5 mls
This huge, costly, Spanish-themed bar-restaurant in the heart of the King’s Cross construction zone was a big gamble for owner Richard Bigg. Originally the bar and...
King's Cross: 3 Varnishers Yard, Regents Quarter, N1 9FD
Distance: 0.9 mls
There’s a no-booking policy and few tables at this thriving local, so if you’re not ensconced by 7pm forget about ordering anything but a drink. The good news is...
Islington: 16 Elia Street, N1 8DE
Distance: 0.7 mls
Club Gascon dazzles just with its extraordinary flower arrangements – in spring, elaborate cherry blossom towers, echoing Japanese touches in the sleekly opulent...
Clerkenwell: 57 West Smithfield, EC1A 9DS
Distance: 0.3 mls
Menu Plaisir de St Valentin £85, with wine £120.Islington gastropub with good food and drinks
Islington: 58 Penton St, N1 9PZ
Distance: 0.8 mls
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: 0.3 mls
The UK’s first certified organic gastropub chalks up the long list of worthy goals it has achieved on a blackboard, including the buying of phones from a cooperative...
Islington: 30 St Peter's Street, N1 8JT
Distance: 0.9 mls
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: 0.3 mls
New restaurant from Bjorn van der Horst
Farringdon: 38-42 St John Street, EC1M 4AY
Distance: 0.2 mls
The news has got around: Eyre Brothers does everything exceptionally well. Hence, it took us three attempts to reserve a table. The interior is framed by dark wood on...
Shoreditch: 70 Leonard Street, EC2A 4QX
Distance: 1 mls
Although Jamie Oliver’s charity venture is housed in a stunning Victorian building, the interior fails to be either grand or cosy, with oddly tatty tables and...
Shoreditch: 15 Westland Place, N1 7LP
Distance: 0.8 mls
Artisan café adds life to Holborn
Holborn: 71 Lincoln's Inn Fields, WC2A 3JF
Distance: 0.7 mls
New steakhouse in the City
City: 8 High Timber St (entrance on the riverfront), EC4V 3PA
Distance: 0.9 mls
Renowned for innovative updates of British food, Mark Hix now has free rein to indulge us with his passion, in this his first independent project after leaving Caprice...
Farringdon: 36-37 Greenhill Rents, off Cowcross Street, EC1M 6BN
Distance: 0.2 mls
Excellent produce, home-style dishes
Clerkenwell: 4 Sutton Lane, EC1M 5PU
Distance: 0.2 mls
Prescott and Conran in the City
City: 85 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1AE
Distance: 0.6 mls
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