South Bank restaurants

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Discover the best places to eat along the South Bank

After a lengthy stroll along the riverside, the many excellent restaurants on the South Bank come as great relief. For some traditional Turkish food, Troia is great. Skylon is modern and chic (with amazing views), and Benugo has solved BFI Southbank's long-running problem of feeding its cinemagoers properly.

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Skylon
Rating: 4/5 Modern European, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX
Skylon restaurant in London’s landmark Royal Festival Hall is a hot destination eatery, a new classic with a modern twist. Inspired by the emblematic sculpture of the 1951...
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Benugo Bar & Kitchen
Rating: 3/5 Café: European, BFI, South Bank Centre, Belvedere Rd, London, SE1 8XT
After years of struggle, BFI Southbank has finally figured out its catering. Or, rather, they got Benugo to figure it out for them...
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Canteen
Rating: 3/5 Brasserie: British, Royal Festival Hall, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX
Canteen's warm globes of light shine out like beacons in the grey back-end of the Royal Festival Hall. Inside is a buzzy restaurant that looks too 1980s for comfort, but is cosy...
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Giraffe
Rating: 3/5 Brasserie: Global, Riverside Level 1, Royal Festival Hall, London, SE1 8XX
If you don't love Giraffe, you probably don't have children. It's not that giving birth suddenly creates a taste for burritos or pesto oil, but new parents have a heightened...
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Ozu
Rating: 3/5 Restaurant: Japanese, County Hall, Westminster Bridge Rd, London, SE1 7PB
Perhaps it's a sign of the recessionary times. Ozu, housed in the grand Thames-side County Hall building, used to serve high-end Japanese food, but, following a change of ownership, it...
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Troia
Rating: 3/5 Restaurant: Turkish, 3F Belvedere Rd, London, SE1 7GQ
Troia's small, dimly lit interior is made intimate with a profusion of coloured-glass chandeliers. The place appears far more roomy than it is, thanks to two massive mirrors. It's close...
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