Eat & Drink

Restaurant reviews, new openings, the best bars and pubs, and everything worth eating and drinking across London right now.

Pique-Nique restaurant lit up at night, a black-framed glass pavilion with mock-Tudor gables in Tanner Street Park, festoon lights inside and blackboard menus hung against the glass

Pique-Nique review: the lantern-lit park pavilion doing proper French cooking in Bermondsey

Pappardelle with fennel sausage ragu and grated parmesan on a white plate at Padella

Padella review: still the best £10 in Borough Market, still no way to book it

A deep-fried brick of many-layered potato topped with creme fraiche and a thick layer of chopped chives, on a green and white transferware plate at Camille in Borough Market

Camille review: the best restaurant in London is a small French room on Stoney Street

The dining room at Akara in Borough Yards, a brick railway arch with exposed ducting, counter seats along one side and tables opposite

Akara review: the West African fritter that travelled to Brazil, in a Borough Yards arch

Biryani rice crackers at Kolae, stacked high in a stone bowl under crispy fried shallots and coriander

Kolae review: five visits in, the £6 skewer is still the best thing we eat in Borough

Pappardelle with fennel sausage ragu and grated parmesan on a white plate at Padella

The best restaurants in Borough Market, from a Michelin-starred Greek taverna to the pasta bar that still will not take a booking

Ye Olde Mitre tucked in an alley

Most of London’s oldest pubs are dating the site, not the building: 27 historic pubs with the real numbers

An overhead view of a wooden table crowded with croquetas, padron peppers, pan con tomate, Basque cheesecake and glasses of beer, with several people reaching in

Txakoli poured over your head and a public vote on croquetas: a free Basque festival lands in the City for one day

A green marble table laid with a whole roast fish in sauce with chanterelles, a sliced bone-in steak, chips, salad, bearnaise and glasses of wine

A martini washed in beef fat from the butcher two doors down: Dockley Road is the Bermondsey restaurant hiding inside a wholesale food market

The Laslett Notting Hill

19 Notting Hill breakfasts and brunches, and where you can actually get a table

Four Cabaret performers posed across the bar at Balthazar, one lying along the stools and one mid-leap in front of the backlit bottle shelves

Cabaret’s dancers are getting up on the bar at Balthazar for six Friday nights only

Bacchanalia

Damien Hirst’s angels, a Lutyens banking hall and a courtroom nobody repainted: 31 beautiful restaurants in London

Two pieces of cured tuna nigiri each topped with a quenelle of black caviar, on a blue and white patterned plate

Ten seats, one sitting a night and a window facing Harrods: Alba’s omakase counter opens this month

Duck and Waffle's dining room on the 40th floor of Heron Tower

26 late night restaurants in London, sorted by how late the kitchen actually runs

A Negroni in a ribbed tumbler garnished with an orange wedge and a green olive, beside a small metal pot of olives on a zinc bar top

Six bars, one passport and a free sixth Negroni: Negroni Week has quietly become Negroni Month in London

Fairgame

Fairgame, the boozy adult funfair that’s now popular enough to need a second London site

Tacos topped with pineapple, coriander and onion at Chabela in Crystal Palace

Crystal Palace’s best restaurants, from a Mexican kitchen to a pizza place that swears by rhubarb

Tacos topped with pineapple, coriander and onion at Chabela in Crystal Palace

Chabela review: the tiny Crystal Palace Mexican spot that’s become a proper neighbourhood gem

Lurra

The Best Restaurants in Marylebone – Unmissable Places to Eat

A cup of Rhythm 108 x The Real Fruit Ice Cream Co. Strawberry Choc Cookie ice cream, topped with chocolate hazelnut spread and cookie crumble

Rhythm 108 and The Real Fruit Ice Cream Co. are giving away free ice cream at Old Spitalfields Market