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Eating and drinking in London

  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    FT Globetrotter
    Full English breakfasts and bonhomie: the timeless charms of London’s Mario’s Café

    Glorious fry-ups, Italian comfort food and — above all — a strong sense of community are on the menu at this much-loved north London ‘caff’

    A fried English breakfast on a plate on a green Formica table at Mario’s Café, alongside a mug of tea and a row of condiments lined against the wall
  • Monday, 17 March, 2025
    FT Globetrotter
    Obsessed with: London’s whole roast chicken craze

    It’s the hottest dish in town. Here’s where everyone’s flocking to find the tastiest and most succulent takes

    Pollo a la brasa at Lima Cantina, in London’s Covent Garden: two whole roast chickens in square black trays surrounded by small bowls of salad and dips
  • Sunday, 16 March, 2025
    HTSI
    The UK’s cosiest pubs: the readers’ picks

    Earlier this year we published a list of our favourite spots for a pint by the fire. Here are the places you’d like to add  

    The Craven Arms in Appletreewick in the Yorkshire Dales
  • Wednesday, 12 March, 2025
    HTSI
    How weird is your coffee order?

    Shake up your americano with these kooky caffeine hits

    The Toffee Apple Pie coffee at Established in Belfast
  • Tuesday, 4 March, 2025
    FT GlobetrotterTips from the top
    Where to go in Soho, by bar maestro Max Venning

    The man behind some of London’s coolest watering holes reveals his favourite haunts for everything from breakfast noodles to midnight martinis

  • Monday, 24 February, 2025
    FT GlobetrotterTips from the top
    London’s natural wine scene: expert Mark Gurney’s insider guide

    The man behind two of the capital’s go-tos for low-intervention bottles shares his favourite places to imbibe

    Mark Gurney sitting outside south-east London’s Levan restaurant, which he co-owns
  • Monday, 17 February, 2025
    FT GlobetrotterObsessed with . . . 
    Obsessed with: offal — five London restaurants that get to the heart of it

    No guts for the once lowly organ meats now regarded by many chefs as a cut above? These places might make a fan of you

    Lamb brains and peas at Camille, London
  • Wednesday, 5 February, 2025
    FT Globetrotter
    Five bars for a quiet midweek drink in the City of London

    Post-work watering holes where you can actually hear yourself think (and yes, they do exist)

    The black-walled, cellar-like space of Merchant House, a pub in the City of London
  • Thursday, 30 January, 2025
    HTSI
    The Dreamery, where grape meets gelato

    The north London bar from the creators of Goodbye Horses pairs wine and ice-cream

    A selection of wine and ice-cream at The Dreamery in north London
  • Monday, 20 January, 2025
    FT Globetrotter
    Gen Z and the rebirth of the London supper club

    Young people in the UK capital are increasingly ditching the dating apps for a more sophisticated scene

    Model Ava Kalitowski holding a plate of food at The Candid Club
  • Tuesday, 31 December, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    The best tacos in London? Make for a small yet storied local eatery

    Guacamole’s in Peckham offers outstanding Mexican food — and the extraordinary life story of its founder, ‘Taco Manny’

    Tacos at Guacamole’s
  • Monday, 30 December, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    London’s best new restaurants of 2024

    This year’s top tables, as selected by FT editors and writers

    Framed vintage illustrations covering a green wall behind a dark-wood banquette and marble tables at Cloth
  • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
    Worth it?Martyn James
    Are trendy members’ clubs worth it?

    A break from the traditional, clubs for under-40s are springing up

  • Monday, 11 November, 2024
    HTSI
    The Yellow Bittern – a rare bird among new London restaurants

    You book by post, pay in cash and can only eat in lunch hours. It’s what makes this stubborn new establishment so special

    From left: Hugh Corcoran, Frances Armstrong Jones and Oisín Davies at The Yellow Bittern
  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2024
    FT GlobetrotterObsessed with . . . 
    Unearthing London’s best autumn-truffle dishes

    It isn’t hard to sniff out the delicacy in the capital’s restaurants right now. But here are six places that take it to the next level

  • Wednesday, 16 October, 2024
    HTSI
    Are these the best work canteens in the world?

    Inside the office restaurants leading a lunch revolution

    Polentina restaurant in east London
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    FT GlobetrotterTips from the top
    A chef’s guide to London’s top Sunday lunches

    British, Turkish, French and Chinese, as recommended by Mike Davies of The Camberwell Arms, the man behind one of the capital’s most celebrated roasts

    Chef Mike Davies of The Camberwell Arms, sitting in a chair and smiling with his eyes closed
  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    London’s bistro boom

    A new wave of restaurants is reigniting the capital’s love affair with classic French food. Here are six of the most magnifiques

    A selection of dishes on a white tablecloth-covered table at Joséphine, a west London restaurant
  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    The cult of St John

    As one of London’s most important restaurants turns 30, longtime devotee and FT food critic Tim Hayward celebrates its legacy

    A man sits a table with a white tablecloth in front of wine glasses and set of salt and pepper shakers
  • Saturday, 21 September, 2024
    FT SeriesThe FT Magazine’s Guide to the Business Lunch
    The FT’s favourite business lunch restaurants in London

    17 venues in and around the City worth rescheduling your 2pm for, and the best tables at each

    A stylish restaurant interior with round tables covered in white tablecloths, surrounded by wicker-backed chairs. Two black-and-white framed portraits hang on the wall
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    FT SeriesThe FT Magazine’s Guide to the Business Lunch
    The FT foreign correspondents’ guide to business dining around the world

    The top tables for breaking bread and sealing deals in great global cities

  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    FT GlobetrotterObsessed with . . . 
    Obsessed with: figs, summer’s luscious swansong

    Across London’s restaurants, chefs are putting the late-season fruit in the limelight in all sorts of imaginative ways

    A plate of ‘fig carpaccio’ at London’s Lilienblum restaurant
  • Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    London’s top sake spots

    Where to savour Japan’s national drink in all its versatility in the UK capital

    Rows of sakes on shelves in the window of London’s Sake Collective
  • Saturday, 24 August, 2024
    HTSI
    Has the open kitchen killed the ego chef?

    Restaurants are favouring more stage-like cooking spaces. It’s fostering a kinder workplace

    The basement kitchen at Carlotta
  • Friday, 23 August, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    Five of London’s best Caribbean eateries

    There’ll be Caribbean food galore at this weekend’s Notting Hill Carnival, but the region’s cuisines are celebrated year round across the capital, from Anguillan fine dining to the original Jamaican roast dinner

    Jerk chicken and codfish fritters at Fish, Wings & Tings in south London A hand reaching towards a plate of jerk chicken and codfish fritters at Fish, Wings & Tings in south London
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