| 1 | Ten Tables - Rydges Kensington Plaza Hotel |
This cosy restaurant just a stone’s throw from Gloucester Road tube brings a new dining experience to the area having shifted from tapas to modern European cuisine in October 2007.
It sits adjacent ... read more |
| Current user rating 12.0/15 | |
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| 2 | Powers Acoustic Room - 332 Kilburn High Road |
| It was like no other night, it was Pete Doherty night, which meant that the inside of the Power’s Acoustic Room had been emptied of most tables and chairs and replaced by fresh faced punters with the ... read more |
| Current user rating 15.0/15 | |
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| 3 | The Pigalle Club - 215 Piccadilly |
| That corner. You know, THAT corner. The one at Piccadilly Circus where every new schmo in town likes to stand and have their picture taken with a large, flashing reminder of Coca Cola behind them. Yeh, ... read more |
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| 4 | Megaro - Hotel Megaro, 23-27 Euston Road |
| If you’re going to welcome international visitors at St. Pancras, it is vital to have cuisine on the doorstep that would be well received in any country. Leading the charge for fine dining in the King ... read more |
| Current user rating 12.0/15 | |
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| 5 | The Exhibit - 12 Balham Station Road |
| Hold tight London. Fluid has found the best new/old bar in town. Have a pen and paper to hand, you’ll need to take this down. Actually, don’t bother. The less people that know, the better. In fact, The ... read more |
| Current user rating 10.0/15 | |
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| 6 | The Albion - 121 Hammersmith Road |
| I’ve lived round the corner from the Albion for four years now but it only came onto my radar in the last few months when the new owner took over. Casually walking past one Thursday I was overwhelmed ... read more |
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| 7 | Three Stags - 67-69 Kennington Road |
| Most places on t’internet will try to tell you that the Three Stags is old, ropey and cursed with staff ineptitude. But they haven’t seen the Three Stags: Mach 2. Three charismatic chefs have snaffled ... read more |
| Current user rating 15.0/15 | |
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| 8 | The Glow Lounge - 6 Cavendish Parade |
| Clapham South’s Glow Lounge is a little bit psycho. It can't make up its mind about what it really wants to be. See, it walks like a café – frothing coffees, purchaseable artwork, bare brick walls, serious ... read more |
| Current user rating 15.0/15 | |
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| 9 | Bar Social - 245 Lavender Hill |
If you’re looking for a night out in a cosy venue, quality cocktails, really friendly bar staff and a completely unpretentious crowd then Bar Social is the place.
I was heading out with my sister ... read more |
| Current user rating 12.0/15 | |
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| 10 | Beach Blanket Babylon Shoreditch - 19-23 Bethnal Green Road |
| If you're not beautiful then don't even think about walking into BBB for either drinks, food or a job. The advert in the toilet, which I'm not sure complies with employment regulations, states clearly ... read more |
| Current user rating 3.0/15 | |
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| 11 | The Rake - 14 Winchester Walk |
Claim #1: it’s the first licensed pub in a hundred years to open within the legal confines of Borough Market
Claim #2: it’s London’s smallest pub
Claim #3: it has 380 different beers per year and ... read more |
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| 12 | L'Autre Pied - 5-7 Blandford St |
| When is a restaurant akin to a work of art? When a highly-rated chef named Marcus Eaves is given what the co-proprietor of L’Autre Pied calls “a blank canvas” to showcase his culinary repertoire in Marylebone. ... read more |
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| 13 | Hoochi Mamas - 88 Tooting High Street |
| A compact but thoughtfully designed bar just by Tooting Broadway tube station with a laid back atmosphere and warm ambiance. The décor is simple but effective: wooden tables and chairs combined with ... read more |
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| 14 | The Rosendale - 65 Rosendale Rd |
[Fanfare trumpets]….“and the winner of the 2007 Time Out Gastropub of the Year Award is….The Rosendale in Dulwich”. Gasp!
Yes, this is true. The once-dodgy den and general working men’s grubby hideaway ... read more |
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| 15 | Duke of Sussex - 75 South Parade |
| Opinions are divided on life’s many little quandries: are the New Zealand rugby team the world’s greatest underachievers; should we put Britney out of her misery and have her spayed; is the old ‘chicken ... read more |
| Current user rating 13.0/15 | |
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| 16 | Metro Bar & Grill - 270 Upper St |
| Halfway between Angel and Highbury-Islington corner lies Metro Bar and Grill, the latest addition to Upper Street’s fine selection of lively eating and drinking venues. Having formerly been home to an ... read more |
| Current user rating 14.0/15 | |
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| 17 | The Morgan Arms - 43 Morgan St |
| Pete Doherty won an award in 2005. And rightly so. Not by himself, mind. He had a bit of help from ‘them other fellas’ in the band (The Libertines). Doherty, and them other fellas, snapped up the Best ... read more |
| Current user rating 10.0/15 | |
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| 18 | Suzie Wong - 16 Old Compton Street |
| Situated alongside gay bars and coffee shops isn’t where you would expect to find one of the best Thai restaurants in London. Suzie Wong – formerly known as Sri Thai Soho until a refurbishment last year ... read more |
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| 19 | Ooze - 62 Goodge Street |
| Soho media urchins, Warren Street architects, Tottenham Court technology junkies – the following concerns you, so pay attention. During the week you may experience an extreme loss of think-jazz in your ... read more |
| Current user rating 11.0/15 | |
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| 20 | Printers Devil - The Printer's Devil |
| Dark clouds hang heavy over The Printer’s Devil. Looming corporate HQs heave and sigh all around and cast the pub in constant shadow. It’s name is hidden by a shroud of ‘To Let’ signs and is only visable ... read more |
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| 21 | Tiffinbites (Canary Wharf) - 22-23 Jubilee Place |
| If after reading this review, you decide to head down to this branch of Tiffinbites, then you’re best to meet up with your companion at some place you both know, cause if you try to find each other in ... read more |
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| 22 | Portal Restaurant & Bar - 88 St John Street |
| Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. Lord knows, He could try. All manner of damnable sins are in Portal and save you from them He shall not. Lust, gluttony, greed and sloth – they all ... read more |
| Current user rating 15.0/15 | |
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| 23 | Punch Tavern - The Punch Tavern |
| The Punch Tavern is a real character; just like the irreverent marionette it gets its name from, and especially amongst those sparklingly sterile chain-bars so typical to the City today. With a rich history, ... read more |
| Current user rating 15.0/15 | |
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| 24 | The Oxford - 256 Kentish Town Road |
There’s a word for places like The Oxford: DavidBeckham-ish.
For a start, it’s got that sleek, well-adorned, faux posh appearance that says “corrr, someone spent a bit of dosh on this getup”. It’s ... read more |
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| 25 | Stanza Restaurant And Bar - 93-107 Shaftesbury Avenue |
| Stanza restaurant & bar exudes slickness and style, as one would expect having only recently been refurbished. Opening at the end of June 2007, Stanza has a new leash of life on the site of the previous ... read more |
| Current user rating 9.0/15 | |
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| 26 | Tiffinbites (Russia Row) - 23 Russia Row, off Gresham Street |
| There has always been a large place in my heart, and stomach, for Indian cuisine and the prospect of discovering another Indian delight to add to my list gets my excitement levels positively racing. Tiffinbites ... read more |
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| 27 | Artesian - Langham Hotel, London |
| Anyone without prior knowledge of Artesian’s existence could easily stroll past the stately entrance of Portland Place’s prestigious Langham hotel oblivious to the fact that concealed in one clandestine ... read more |
| Current user rating 15.0/15 | |
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| 28 | Urban Inc - The O2, Unit 20 |
| Do you tire of night outs in chic, classy and imaginatively creative cocktail bars? Do you find the convivial nature of their clientele all too approachable and perhaps a little pompous? Do you crave ... read more |
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| 29 | Apostrophe - Brunswick Centre |
| Certainly not! That’s the kind of response most ‘normal’ Londoners would give when asked if they’d like to go shopping on Oxford Street this Saturday. Unless, of course, they enjoy the suffocating feeling ... read more |
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| 30 | Bar Lumiere - 205 Balham High Road |
| A little bit of the west end has come to south London. Eight weeks since it’s opening in May 2007, Bar Lumiere is pulling the crowds off Balham High Street into its trendy array of cocktails and décor. ... read more |
| Current user rating 11.0/15 | |
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