*Breakfast
Bake Street
*Pastries
Pophams (angel / london fields / victoria park)
Jolene
*Lunch
Towpath (outdoor seating on the canal, go early to not queue a long time)
Plaquemine Lock (new orleans style pub, fried oysters, bloody marys - live music on saturdays)
Quarter Kitchen (outdoors, mexican - now called bad manners)
Campania (Columbia Rd)
*Dinner
Kiln (thai, soho, sexy - an absolute gem)
St John (iconic london spot)
*Drinks
Cafe kick (Exmouth Market)
Bar Termini (Soho)
Found Ravey Street (Shoreditch)
*Wine bars
Hector’s
Dan’s
*Pubs
The eagle farringdon
The de beauvoir arms
The marksman (bethnal green)
The royal oak (columbia road)
The plimsoll (finsbury park)
*Ice cream
Romeo & Giulietta (Stoke Newington, always a queue on the weekends but worth the wait esp. for their seasonal sorbets)
Gelupo (Soho, most authentic italian gelato in London IMO - if the Mango Sticky Rice is on the menu order it!!!!!)
*Vintage & Shopping
Somewhere in hackney (London fields)
Serotonin Brick Lane
House of Vintage Broadway Market
Alta store (Soho)
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Lime bike around Hyde Park on a sunny day
Go for a swim in Hampstead Heath Ponds (if ur brave) or London fields Lido (heated)
Dalston Eastern Curve garden for coffee
Brick lane on the weekend (crowd hell but the vintage market has some of the best clothes - deceptively huge and gets better the further back u go)
Kew Gardens (further out but iconic)
Take the cloud cable car at sunset / after dark
Stoke newington has super cute cafes and great charity shops
Notting Hill at the weekend is mad crowded but very iconic & postcard London vibes
Pride of Spitalfields pub - cheap pints & great chat
Design Museum and V&A museum
the Windmill in Brixton for live music and South London pubs in general
Soho / Covent Garden area is fun to explore
The clink prison museum - weirdest museum I’ve ever been to
Borough market is highly rated
Broadway market is over rated (imo)
Dalston Superstore for late nights
Peckham car boot
Deptford market
Check up sebs art list for up to date exhibitions and happenings
(will add more if I think of more!)
Oct 5, 2024
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-arancina (notting hill) - casual pizza and arancini etc.
-mayfair mercato - food hall in a former church
-spitafields market - another great food hall! I recommend you combine this activity with some vintage shopping on brick lane!
-regency cafe - can get a great full english
-walk along the South Bank - fun energy lots of bars right along the Thames
-Holland Park - there are peacocks in the Kyoto Garden!
-SoHo to go out if you want really crazy going out vibes in the center of things
-Heaven (night club)
-The Social - go see local bands, London has a good music scene
- Borough Market
-Good neighborhoods for going out: Shoreditch, Camden, Hackney
-Tate Modern
-Victoria and Albert museum (free and in a good area)
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I'm going to info dump sorry but I have lived here for 10+ years so I think I'm qualified to say that this is a good list for avoiding high traffic areas and to see more of what actual locals do (mostly south london because it's where I live)
Eat:
-Kudu Grill (Nunhead) also there's a Little Kudu in peckham although I've yet to eat there so cannot say whether its as good
-Theo's Pizza (Camberwell / Elephant & Castle)
-The Camberwell Arms (Camberwell)
-Artusi (Peckham)
-Brutto (Farringdon)
-Max's Sandwich shop (Finsbury Park)
-Jai Krishna (Finsbury Park) (rogue recommendation but you have to try a good Indian when you're in London I'd say)
-Casse-Croute (London Bridge)
-Manze's Pie & Mash (Peckham)(try the jellied eels if you're feeling brave)
-Speedboat Bar (Soho)
Books:
-BOOKS PECKHAM (my fav 2nd hand bookstore and the owner is nice)
-Bookmongers (Brixton)
-Tenderbooks (Near Leicester Square station)(really cooool art books, the whole street it's on is known for having lots of book shops, worth a visit and very central so it's easy to find!)
Pubs (London essential, sorry about the pint prices though):
-Skehan's (Nunhead)
-Faltering Fullback (Finsbury Park)(try find a seat in the beer garden if poss)
-The Camberwell Arms (Camberwell)
-The Grapes (East London-ish)(fun fact: it's co-owned by Ian McKellan of Gandalf fame)
Also the parks are great to visit in summer:
-Kew Gardens (the general area is nice to be in - lots of expensive homes and english quaint-ness)
-Hampstead Heath (it's is a good place to walk around in for a day, the 'village' part is cute too like with Richmond/ Kew Gardens, lots to do here)
-Crystal Palace Park (for the cursed dinosaur sculptures mainly)
-Greenwich Park (a tourist classic but I've included it because it's just a nice park and a good alternative to Hyde Park)
-Highgate Cemetery (technically not a park but you can visit Karl Marx's grave which is cool!)
Jun 9, 2024
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