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Every guide we publish, newest first. London restaurants, bars, pubs, hotels, afternoon tea, spas and nightlife, each one checked against the venue's own published information rather than against other guides.
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We take no bookings, sell nothing, and accept no payment for inclusion. Where a price or a rule appears here, it came from the venue.
Only 13 of 154 London Venues Hold Tables Back for Walk Ins
Walk ins welcome is not a property of a restaurant, it is a property of a room and an hour. An index of how 154 London venues actually let you in, taken from their own sites.
Dog Friendly Means Four Different Things in London. Ask Which Room.
One wine bar takes dogs everywhere, another only at the bar and terrace, a pub only on the ground floor because the kitchen is open plan. Five more venues widely called dog friendly publish no policy at all.
Camden Market Is a Food Court. The Restaurants Are Five Minutes Away.
The market lists three stalls with Thai in the name and two selling churros, so choosing by name does not work. The Lock shuts at seven, the food halls run to eleven, and the pub goes to one. Here is the timeline that decides your evening.
Six Peckham Kitchens, Not One Sunday Dinner. The Last Food Is at 6.30.
Hausu is shut on Sundays and Mondays both. Levan is finished by three, Artusi by four, 139 Fika by half past five. Forza Wine pours until eight and stops cooking at 6.30. Here is which day to actually come.
Medlar Is £57 for Three Courses. In December the Same Lunch Is £69.
In Chelsea the clock and the calendar move the price more than the dish does. Medlar charges £12 more in December, Josephine waives £35 corkage on Mondays, and Elystan Street serves its set menu between six and half past six only.
The £39 Set Lunch at The Shard Does Not Come With a Window. That Is £90.
Six rooms stacked in one tower, and only the three lowest will tell you what anything costs. Hutong is the one that prices the window: £90 at lunch, £145 at dinner. Above Level 33 you get a dress code instead of a price.
The Gym Group Is £20.99 a Month. Third Space Will Not Tell You Anything.
BXR lists eleven memberships and prices two of them. Third Space publishes no price at all and its own FAQ asks how much a membership costs. The Gym Group says £20.99 a month on the page you land on.
The Devonshire Takes No Bookings. Milk Beach Charges £25 to Cancel. Both Are in Soho.
Soho is the London neighbourhood where the booking rule decides the evening more than the menu does. Some rooms take nothing at all, some charge £25 a head to change your mind, and two courses at Brasserie Zédel are £16.95.
The Regent’s Park Shuts Its Gates at 8pm. Primrose Hill Never Closes.
One of the six protected viewpoints in London, 63 metres up, free, with no ticket and no closing time. The trees are cut low by law to keep the view, and the tree everyone calls Shakespeare's was planted in 1964, not 1864.
The Two Things Everyone Goes to Greenwich For Cost £46. Almost Everything Else Is Free.
The Prime Meridian is £24 and the Cutty Sark is £22, while the Maritime Museum, the Queen's House, the park and the Naval College grounds cost nothing. And ten pounds separates a Day Pass from a year's membership.
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Continuously, and each page records the month it was last checked rather than only the date it was first written. Opening hours and prices in London change often enough that an unchecked guide is worse than none.
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Every entry is verified against the venue's own published information, not against other guides. Nothing is included in exchange for payment, and nothing is excluded for refusing it.