• Borough Market Southwark
  • Galvin La Chapelle City of London
  • Sanctum Soho Hotel Soho
  • Lutyens City of London
  • Loungelover Shoreditch
London is said to be home to some of the best bars in the world. The luxurious Artesian Bar with its perfectionist cocktails and the Sketch with its deliberately over-the-top design are two of the entrants in the competition.

Spice Market

10 Wardour Street // Soho // +442077581088
www.spicemarketlondon.co.uk

Missing your favourite NY restaurant? Opened in February 2011, Spice Market, situated at the W London, is the sister restaurant to the South-East Asian-inspired ... >>>

Paxton & Whitfield

93 Jermyn Street // St James’s // +442079300259
www.paxtonandwhitfield.co.uk

What these fromage-o-philes don’t know about cheese, quite frankly, just isn’t worth knowing. Established in St James’s for over 200 years – and in thei ... >>>

Artesian Bar

1c Portland Place, Regent Street // Marylebone // +442076361000
www.artesian-bar.co.uk

The setting is divine, the food exquisite, and the drinks a work of art – no wonder Artesian Bar, located at London’s exclusive Langham hotel, is widely con ... >>>

Holly&Lil Collar Couture

103 Bermondsey Street // Southwark // +442032873024
www.hollyandlil.co.uk

What is Holly&Lil, we hear you ask? Well, the question should really be – who are Holly and Lil? The answer? Two rather lovely black dogs, whose owners began ... >>>

The Chin Chin Laboratorists

49-50 Camden Lock Place // Camden // +447885604284
www.chinchinlabs.com

Europe’s only liquid nitrogen ice-cream shop opened in Camden in 2010 and has had visitors ooing and aahing ever since. The owners of this shop pride themselv ... >>>

BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir

105-119 Brentfield Road // Neasden // +442089652651
londonmandir.baps.org

It has been described as the eighth wonder of the world – and no wonder! Rising from the chimney-potted suburban surroundings like a shimmering white mirage, ... >>>

Primrose Hill

North of Regent's Park // Camden

As well as being THE place for celeb-spotting – Jamie Oliver, Jude Law, and Gwen Stefani all live here – Primrose Hill is also home to one of London’s bes ... >>>

Sketch

9 Conduit Street // Mayfair // +442076594500
www.sketch.uk.com

Of the artsy persuasion? No trip to London should be complete without a trip to the über-stylish sketch. Housed within the converted 18th century building in C ... >>>

Boundary

2-4 Boundary Street // Shoreditch // +442077291051
www.theboundary.co.uk

In the heart of London’s Shoreditch lies Boundary, a hotel conceived by Terence and Vicki Conran in partnership with Peter Prescott. Each of the hotel’s 17 ... >>>

Shoreditch Rooms

Ebor Street // Shoreditch // +442077395040
www.shoreditchrooms.com

Take a trip up to the rooftop at Shoreditch House and you could be sitting poolside at some hip West Hollywood hangout – not slap bang in the middle of East L ... >>>

Barbican Foodhall

Silk Street // City of London // +442076384141
www.barbican.org.uk/food

The new Barbican Foodhall grew out of what used to be the Barbican café, as the old restaurant became the Barbican Lounge. One of the goals of the creative min ... >>>

Ottolenghi

287 Upper Street // Islington // +442072881454
www.ottolenghi.co.uk

Towering piles of meringue, all manner of cakes and biscuits, bowls of salads so delicious you’ll want to stop what you’re doing immediately and head inside ... >>>

Goodman Mayfair

26 Maddox Street // Mayfair // +442074993776
www.goodmanrestaurants.com

Searching out the best steak in the world has become an obsession for more than a few globally-minded food lovers. So let’s save you the time – and the mone ... >>>

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