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-arancina (notting hill) - casual pizza and arancini etc.
-mayfair mercato - food hall in a former church
-spitafields market - another great food hall! I recommend you combine this activity with some vintage shopping on brick lane!
-regency cafe - can get a great full english
-walk along the South Bank - fun energy lots of bars right along the Thames
-Holland Park - there are peacocks in the Kyoto Garden!
-SoHo to go out if you want really crazy going out vibes in the center of things
-Heaven (night club)
-The Social - go see local bands, London has a good music scene
- Borough Market
-Good neighborhoods for going out: Shoreditch, Camden, Hackney
-Tate Modern
-Victoria and Albert museum (free and in a good area)
Mar 11, 2025
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if you like history, you can go to 3 Saville Row, it's in quite a cool place and semi close to buckingham palace. nice easy walk through some park.
I'd also suggest being careful of phone thieves. it happens a lot when walking through london. Having your phone out taking pictures and not being aware of your surroundings will make you a prime target - It most likely won't happen to you, but be careful :)
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Lime bike around Hyde Park on a sunny day
Go for a swim in Hampstead Heath Ponds (if ur brave) or London fields Lido (heated)
Dalston Eastern Curve garden for coffee
Brick lane on the weekend (crowd hell but the vintage market has some of the best clothes - deceptively huge and gets better the further back u go)
Kew Gardens (further out but iconic)
Take the cloud cable car at sunset / after dark
Stoke newington has super cute cafes and great charity shops
Notting Hill at the weekend is mad crowded but very iconic & postcard London vibes
Pride of Spitalfields pub - cheap pints & great chat
Design Museum and V&A museum
the Windmill in Brixton for live music and South London pubs in general
Soho / Covent Garden area is fun to explore
The clink prison museum - weirdest museum I’ve ever been to
Borough market is highly rated
Broadway market is over rated (imo)
Dalston Superstore for late nights
Peckham car boot
Deptford market
Check up sebs art list for up to date exhibitions and happenings
(will add more if I think of more!)
Oct 5, 2024
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get the overground around Hackney ! It’s pretty!
most of the museums/galleries have free collections (both Tate modern & Tate Britain, national gallery, V&A as already mentioned — V&A definitely worth a visit) . i also love the museum of the home, the photographer’s gallery, & the ICA (ICA has a cinema and brilliant bookshop also, & it’s v near Trafalgar Square so you can combine classic tourist activity with Something more obscure lol!).
I am a big shopping gworl so i actually love dipping around carnaby street and libertys (which is so beautiful inside!).
depends where youre staying etc and if it stays sunny but honestly the quintessential summer thing to do would be : Sit in a pub with a garden !!!!!
& again - as it’s summer - highly recommend finding a gross little club or gig to go to. if I’m bored I just check resident advisor or dice and see whats coming up.
if you’re comfortable sharing which area you’re staying in then I can send more specific recs hehe
Aug 5, 2024
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*Breakfast
Bake Street
*Pastries
Pophams (angel / london fields / victoria park)
Jolene
*Lunch
Towpath (outdoor seating on the canal, go early to not queue a long time)
Plaquemine Lock (new orleans style pub, fried oysters, bloody marys - live music on saturdays)
Quarter Kitchen (outdoors, mexican - now called bad manners)
Campania (Columbia Rd)
*Dinner
Kiln (thai, soho, sexy - an absolute gem)
St John (iconic london spot)
*Drinks
Cafe kick (Exmouth Market)
Bar Termini (Soho)
Found Ravey Street (Shoreditch)
*Wine bars
Hector’s
Dan’s
*Pubs
The eagle farringdon
The de beauvoir arms
The marksman (bethnal green)
The royal oak (columbia road)
The plimsoll (finsbury park)
*Ice cream
Romeo & Giulietta (Stoke Newington, always a queue on the weekends but worth the wait esp. for their seasonal sorbets)
Gelupo (Soho, most authentic italian gelato in London IMO - if the Mango Sticky Rice is on the menu order it!!!!!)
*Vintage & Shopping
Somewhere in hackney (London fields)
Serotonin Brick Lane
House of Vintage Broadway Market
Alta store (Soho)
Feb 22, 2024
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sumac (great food, casual vibes)
olive et gourmando (good lunch spot)
bar bello (good for a drink)
midway (also good for a drink)
crew collective cafe (gorg interiors)
sans soleil (dancing, vinyl dj set, great music and vibes)
habitat 67
cafe olimpico
biodome
st. viateur bagels
khyber pass (pumpkin appetizer)
Feb 14, 2025
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Feb 24, 2025
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Paul Revere is my dream man. He is half-French (ask the employees about his dad when you go), he started off as an apprentice and worked his way up to having a small business, he bought a house in the North End at 35 and he was a fugitive/American hero. Highly reccomend you go and highly reccomend you engage with the staff in the rooms, they are a wealth of knowledge and fun facts.
Feb 14, 2025