Eat & Drink

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

Restaurants

Fourteen restaurants in Hampstead, and the best of them seats eight

A steel bank-vault door lit in blue neon under a railway bridge, flanked by two illuminated Lurpak 125 Years billboards

Lurpak is giving away 125 free tickets to a four-course dinner in Shoreditch, and the ballot closes on Sunday

A full English breakfast in a pan with bacon, sausage, fried eggs, beans and grilled tomatoes, with toast, coffee and orange juice

The best breakfasts in London, from a £7.60 focaccia in a car park to a £26.50 Mayfair fry-up

Best Bars in London

54 of the best bars in London, starting with the one that won’t take your booking

Vegan Brunch

Skip the smashed avocado: 15 of the best vegan brunches in London

Gloria Shoreditch-1

24 lively restaurants in London, from a 4kg pecorino wheel in Covent Garden to a ball pit in Shoreditch

buffet restaurants

The best buffet restaurants in London, from a £30 feast in the Hoover Building to unlimited Korean BBQ with karaoke

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

Negroni Week starts on Monday, but London has been at it all month, and the sixth one is free

The counter at Rocola on Mare Street, with high stools along a concrete bar facing the open kitchen under exposed ducting and concrete

Smoked eel boxty and venison heart bottarga: Lawrence Barrow has taken over Rocola until 3 October

A Joe and the Juice chia pudding breakfast bowl with blueberries, passion fruit, kiwi slices and granola, shot from above

Breakfast at four in the afternoon, free with a coffee: Joe & The Juice is going breakfast-only at Liverpool Street

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