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Best restaurants in London

7 places from 4 London travel vlogs, most-mentioned first. The play button jumps to that moment in the video.

7 places

  1. The Ginger Pig

    Restaurant ยท Hoxton

    A butcher and eatery known for its pork sausages, served as bangers and mash or in its huge ยฃ7 original sausage roll.

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6 more picks, each from a single vlog, so not ranked.

  1. Hawksmoor

    Restaurant ยท City of London

    A steakhouse group known for its full English breakfast for two and its sticky toffee pudding with clotted cream.

  2. Poppies Fish & Chips

    Restaurant ยท Spitalfields

    An award-winning fish and chip shop with a cult following and a retro 1950s dining room. It serves sustainably sourced, light and crispy cod and chips to eat in or take away.

  3. Kiln

    Restaurant ยท Soho

    A Thai restaurant cooking everything over charcoal with British farm produce. Dishes include soy chicken, a langoustine glass-noodle pot and a rhubarb sour curry.

  4. Mangal 2

    Restaurant ยท Dalston

    A family-run Turkish grill opened in 1994, serving seasonal British-sourced dishes cooked over coals, such as house sucuk with strawberries and ex-dairy cow steak.

  5. St. John

    Restaurant ยท Smithfield

    A restaurant that pioneered 'nose to tail' cooking in the UK, famous for its bone marrow and parsley salad, Welsh rarebit, devilled kidneys, and Madeira with seed cake.

  6. Dishoom

    Restaurant ยท Covent Garden

    One of London's most popular Indian restaurants, serving Bombay-style dishes with a modern British twist.