Ealing Area Guide

Ealing high street shops

Welcome to London x London’s Ealing Guide: your guide to the best bars, restaurants and things to do in this West London neighbourhood.

Ealing sits in the London Borough of Ealing, a few miles west of central London, with Ealing Broadway as its hub and fast trains running straight into Paddington.

Ealing didn’t earn the nickname Queen of the Suburbs for nothing, its quiet cafes, sprawling greens and straight shot to the city centre still hold up.

Once a sleepy village well outside London, it was gradually swallowed by the city’s expansion during the industrial revolution.

Its village charm has survived regardless, and the quiet, leafy streets have been drawing people tired of inner-city bustle for over a century. Ealing Broadway’s shops and cafes, and the open green space of Ealing Common, still give the area plenty to offer, alongside regular ten-minute trains to Paddington and solid tube connections across the rest of London.

Leafy West London suburb, village charm with city links

Getting there
Nearest tube/rail: Ealing Broadway (Central and District lines, Elizabeth line, National Rail).
Best for
Green spacescafesfamily-friendly streetseasy Heathrow access
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