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Eating and drinking in London

  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    HTSI
    The best smash burgers in the world

    Around the globe in American-style patties

    A bacon cheeseburger at the North London pop-up Supra Burger
  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
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    Bridgerton star Victor Alli takes us to his Hackney manor

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  • Monday, 27 May, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    Obsessed with: gooseberries

    These translucent fruit are the taste of British summertime, but their moment in the sun is fleeting. Catch them while you can in these creative takes on the menu at London’s top restaurants

    A row of red gooseberries hanging from a leafy thin branch
  • Monday, 13 May, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    Stout and about: a Guinness pub crawl across London

    Our writer explores the rise of the capital’s most fashionable pint — and the pubs that conjure that all-important ‘Guinnessness’ vibe

    Customers standing at a bar lined with pints of Guinness at The Devonshire pub, Soho
  • Tuesday, 23 April, 2024
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    James Brown of Blue Mountain School’s perfect Saturday in London

    The co-founder of the east London retail, art and restaurant space takes us on a whirl around his favourite shops, galleries and eateries in the capital

  • Wednesday, 20 March, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    Forage, muddle and stir: a family cocktail masterclass in the Cotswolds

    A lesson in botanicals at Cowley Manor Experimental leads to some herbaceous creations — both boozy and non

    Cowley Manor Experimental The honey-stoned neoclassical facade of Cowley Manor Experimental, a mansion in the Cotswolds, with its terraced lawns and pond in the foreground
  • Thursday, 7 March, 2024
    FT MagazineTim Hayward
    Camille, London: ‘Why have so few, if any, done this before?’ — review

    Your dream Parisian market café — in Borough Market

  • Wednesday, 28 February, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    Obsessed with: forced rhubarb

    Where to make the most in London’s restaurants of this bright delight that heralds spring

    Rhubarb growing in a dark forcing shed in Wakefield, West Yorkshire
  • Monday, 15 January, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    Five of the City of London’s top salad bars

    Fresh (and incredibly tasty) starts to the year in and around the Square Mile

    A bowl of salad against a yellow background at The Salad Project
  • Wednesday, 3 January, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    Six of the best sandwich shops in the City of London

    We followed the queues to find the pick of the Square Mile, from old school to new wave

    A selection of Birleys’ sandwiches on a platter
  • Wednesday, 27 December, 2023
    FT Globetrotter
    London’s best new restaurants of 2023

    The table talks of the town, as selected by our resident gourmets

    Chef Tomos Parry (left) with his team in the kitchen at Soho’s Mountain restaurants
  • Monday, 11 December, 2023
    FT Globetrotter
    Obsessed with Brussels sprouts: where to find London’s best

    Love them? These places take this wintry veg to new levels (even serving them in martini form). Hate them? You may well be converted . . . 

    Caramelised sprouts with bacon, chestnut and thyme in a round white dish beside a pile of raw sprouts on a table at west London’s The Pelican gastropub
  • Monday, 27 November, 2023
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    A charismatic trendsetter whose restaurants popularised small plates, negronis and no-reservations dining in London

  • Monday, 20 November, 2023
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    Jamie Oliver’s favourite London haunts

    On the eve of the launch of his new London restaurant, the TV chef reveals his top eateries and bars in the capital — and where you might spot him having a picnic

  • Monday, 13 November, 2023
    FT GlobetrotterTips from the top
    Seven of chef Paul Ainsworth’s top London restaurants

    The man behind Cornwall’s Michelin-starred Paul Ainsworth at No 6 shares his favourite places to dine when he’s back in the capital

    Paul Ainsworth at his Cornish restaurant, Paul Ainsworth at No 6
  • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
    HTSI
    My spice roads

    On the eve of Diwali, the HTSI food writer celebrates the legendary local restaurants of his forefathers

    Veeraswamy on Regent Street in 1973
  • Monday, 9 October, 2023
    FT Globetrotter
    Holy roast: the best of the City of London’s church cafés

    From crypt to cathedral, eight coffee stops in beautiful and historic places of worship

    The Wren Coffee at St Nicholas Cole Abbey, with large arched and stained-glass windows surrounding a space dotted with tables and chairs
  • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
    FT Globetrotter
    The best pubs (and a wine bar) in London’s West End

    From hundreds of contenders, our tireless correspondents select their top 10 watering holes in the UK capital’s playground

    The Audley Public House in Mayfair, London: a Victorian-style pub with an orange, pink and blue ceiling painted by the late Phyllida Barlow
  • Monday, 11 September, 2023
    FT SeriesMen’s fashion special AW23
    Enter the ring – the quest for the perfect bagel

    When photographer Dan Martensen failed to find his favourite New York-style in London, he founded a bakery to make the things himself

    A poppy-seed bagel with The Works (schmear, lox, red onions and capers)
  • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
    FT Globetrotter
    Visual feasts: five of London’s best gallery restaurants

    Move over dry scones. A fine-dining revolution has taken the capital’s major art institutions by storm

    From left: ‘Young Man Holding a Skull (Vanitas)’, (1626-28) by Frans Hals. A selection of dishes on a table at Spring
  • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
    FT MagazineTim Hayward
    The Pelican, London: utterly lovely gastropubbery — review

    Some food pubs get away with doing the bare minimum. Notting Hill’s The Pelican does the opposite

  • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
    FT GlobetrotterThe wonder of Wimbledon
    Cream of the crop: where to enjoy strawberry season in London

    Nothing says Wimbledon and British summertime like this glorious berry. As well as the classic cream combo, here’s where to find the capital’s most creative concoctions

    A bowl of strawberries with almonds and green marzipan stalks at Claridge’s
  • Wednesday, 5 July, 2023
    FT GlobetrotterThe wonder of Wimbledon
    First service: where to watch the tennis in style

    Some of the smartest spots in the capital for that Centre Court buzz, from an Art Deco icon on the King’s Road to a pontoon floating in the shadow of Tower Bridge

    Watching the tennis from the steps of Granary Square, King’s Cross
  • Thursday, 22 June, 2023
    FT Globetrotter
    The best Japanese restaurants around the world

    Nikkei correspondents reveal their favourite places to find their home country’s cuisine at its very best

  • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
    ReviewFT Magazine
    Nessa, London: ‘It feels a bit like the future’ — restaurant review

    A restaurant on the corner of old Soho and slick Mayfair brings out the best of both worlds

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