Food & Drink | Haggerston

The Fox E8 The Fox E8 is currently closed as the upstairs is being turned into flats. They hope to return by the end of 2019. Watch this space….

Restaurants | Spitalfields

Gunpowder A Bengali restaurant in Spitalfields featuring bare brick walls, ‘80s school seating and some of the most delicious Indian cooking in London….

Bars | Shoreditch

Bull in a China Shop Whisky bars. Aside from being a huge, unexploited business opportunity for Cadburys, they’re also one of the world’s most popular niche drinking dens, which makes producing a truly great one all the more difficult.

Bars | Soho

Bar Américain at Brasserie Zédel 1930’s America. It gave us the Wall Street crash, the Great Depression, and cocktails. Totally worth it.

Bars | Mayfair

The Connaught Bar An award-winning bar serving some of the best drinks you will ever have in your life.

Food & Drink | Bloomsbury

Oskar’s Bar Oskar’s Bar has sadly now closed….

Restaurants | Mayfair

Le Gavroche The first UK restaurant to earn one Michelin Star. And the first to earn two Michelin stars. And the first to earn three Michelin Stars.

Restaurants | Soho

Yauatcha It’s all about the dim sum here, and there’s a brain-boggling assortment of dumplings, buns, puffs, rolls, noodles, rices, soups and salads on offer.

Restaurants | Soho

Andrew Edmunds The calendar factory. It’s the ultimate date spot. But if you can’t get in, go to Andrew Edmunds – an old school Soho restaurant overflowing with both stories and charm.

Restaurants | Hackney

The Marksman Famed for their Sunday Roasts, The Marksman manages to be all things to all drinkers & diners.

Restaurants | Farringdon

The Quality Chop House The Quality Chop House is one London restaurant that totally lives up to its name. Which explains how its been feeding the residents of Farringdon, and those from a little further afield, since 1896.

Food & Drink | Soho

Milk & Honey Crushingly, Milk & Honey has now closed.

Bars | Shoreditch

The Gibson Jazz lounge speakeasy The Gibson seeeems to have travelled from the American 1930s to modern-day London, making itself at home ever since.

Restaurants | Soho

Polpo Soho An intimate, rustic Venetian restaurant with a subterranean Campari bar.

Restaurants | Soho

Bocca Di Lupo This is probably the finest regional Italian restaurant in London. Or even Italy.

Restaurants | Hammersmith

The River Cafe An iconic Italian restaurant that changed the London restaurant scene forever.

Restaurants | Soho

Randall & Aubin An Anglo-French brasserie filled with with 18th century French chandeliers, disco balls, high bar-style seating, a ton of seafood, and a cellar-full of Champagne.

Restaurants | Covent Garden

Rules You might know Rules as the self-proclaimed oldest restaurant in London. Established by Thomas Rule in 1798, it serves hyper-modern Asian fusion cuisine traditional British food.

Bars | Soho

The Pink Chihuahua This 3am-licensed bar is plastered in Day of the Dead murals, Mexican memorabilia and glass cabinets full of tequila bottles.

Bars | Holborn

Scarfes Bar Gerald Scarfe has the rare distinction of being the only person on earth who has both a species of pterosaur (Cuspicephalus Scarfi) and a hotel bar named after them. It’s almost cartoonish.

Restaurants | Soho

DUM Biryani House Coming to us from Dhruv Mittal (ex-Fat Duck), DUM Biryani House specializes in Hyderabadi biryani, and more or less only Hyderabadi biryani.

Restaurants | Covent Garden

Bunga Bunga Covent Garden Named after Berlusconi’s wild parties, Bunga Bunga offers seriously tongue-in-cheek entertainment, from drag artists to burlesque dancers, to accompany your dinner in their basement den hidden beyond a meat freezer.

Features | London

The Best London Bars & Restaurants For Short People The Best London Bars & Restaurants For Short People When you’re in a restaurant, there’s nothing worse than being a little.