Their 60-long cocktail list is a handsome one, with some special inventions: the Black Cherry Manhattan mixes Sazerac rye whiskey with Red Stag cherry bourbon, dry vermouth and bitters, for instance.
One of the capital's most esoteric watering holes - the clubhouse's shabby chic makes it the perfect place for a pre-dinner pint of beer Baca selengkapnya.
They are open all day, so if you are indecisive on where to go, the food here is delicious.
"These mooli – a tasty wholemeal roti wrap, filled and served like a burrito, wrapped in foil - taste marvellous..." Baca selengkapnya.
One of the more decent cafes you can find near Victoria stations. Skip the Starbucks, Nero, Costa, Ritazza and have a Monmouth flat white!
It's not bad, and fairly authentic, though I have had better in other restaurants with more variety. This place is quite affordable though.
Run as a social enterprise, this place promises to serve freshly made, seasonal & ethically sourced food, and at a friendly price!
Best dim sum in London. FACT. and it's 50% off on mon,tues and wed evenings, BARGINS
Great little pizzeria in Brixton market - you can grab a slice, or a whole pizza. Plus open late til 10pm Thurs-Sat. (via @jack_mu)
Unlike its younger siblings, the original Soho outpost of the Breakfast Club is BYOB at dinner time. Although these guys are big on brekkie (natch) there’s also a damn fine supper menu. Baca selengkapnya.
Brighton’s Bill’s (not to be confused with Australia’s Bill Granger) has finally made it into the capital, serving a similar menu of classic breakfast items in a fun, laid-back space. Baca selengkapnya.
Ethically sourced food, served all day, ranges from roast lunches and egg and chips to afternoon tea with scones, clotted cream and jam. Baca selengkapnya.
Go for the Dead Hippie or the Green Chili Cheeseburger, they are made from pure love.
Lunch time meals offer the best value here, big feed for £10-£14. Vegetables never tasted so good.
Maltby Street is emphatically not a street market - it's merely a collection of rented railway arches, experimenting with opening to the public on Saturday mornings. Baca selengkapnya.
Fishmongers by day, restaurant by night. On Saturdays, if you book your table for the evening by 3pm you get 25% off food. And that's just the icing on the cake of a really good place!
Best food is Ghanaian curries and stews at "Spinach & Agushi". Their beef stew and hot sauce is amazing. Baca selengkapnya.
Try the Kevin Bacon (they’re all named after Hollywood Heavyweights) – a soft brioche bun filled with 35-day hung aged beef, applewood smoked bacon, cheese, lettuce and some damn good relish. Baca selengkapnya.
East End pub which transforms into one of the best burger joints in the city. Get there early to get a seat. And order the ribs. Seriously, *don't* forget the ribs!
It’s always, always busy but if you can’t sit, it’s worth popping in just to grab a coffee and a cake and check out the wall art which changes every month. Baca selengkapnya.
Head down the stairs, take a seat and lose track of time in the dark candle lit cellar. If cheese and wine is your thing then you’ll love Gordon’s. Baca selengkapnya.
Officially the country's most popular tourist attraction, the British Museum opened to the public in 1759 in Montagu House, which then occupied this site. Baca selengkapnya.
Look out for the mosaic floors in the main entrance and stairwell. Fascinating. Work by the same artist can be seen at Tate Britain.
Columbia Road flower market is every Sunday morning on Columbia Road (duh) in Shoreditch. Get there early, before 8am for best deals/best photos. Also great place to check out galleries, curioso-store
Right on Dazed HQs doorstep- our favourite place to lunch, a street of market food from thai, Mexican, falafels and the best burritos. Also don’t walk past the guy selling brownies without trying one!
This was the site of London’s enormous Roman basilica (seat of civic government), the largest north of the Alps. The current name comes from a medieval house here that had lead roofing
Housed in a set of 18th-century almshouses, the Geffrye Museum offers a vivid physical history of the English interior. Baca selengkapnya.
This 120-year history of consumerism, culture, design, domestic life, fashion, folly and fate, presented as a magnificently cluttered time tunnel of cartons and bottles, toys and advertising displays. Baca selengkapnya.
You’ll never forget your first visit to the home of architect Sir John Soane. It’s stuffed with curios and is almost exactly as Soane left it when he died in 1837. Baca selengkapnya.
Today one of London’s most important contemporary art galleries, the Hayward is named after Sir Isaac Hayward, Labour leader of the London County Council from 1947 until its abolition in 1965.
Somerset House features a formidable art gallery, a beautiful fountain court, a terraced café and a classy restaurant. The courtyard and fountains are open until 11pm in in summer. Baca selengkapnya.
The collection is unmatched (150 million items and counting), and the reading rooms (open only to cardholders) are so popular that regular users are now complaining that they can't find a seat. Baca selengkapnya.
The original Globe Theatre, where many of William Shakespeare's plays were first staged, burned to the ground in 1613. Nearly 400 years later, it was rebuilt not far from its original site. Baca selengkapnya.
On the site of the notorious prison, this museum relays the history of Southwark as well as hosting some deeply unpleasant-looking torture devices. Baca selengkapnya.
It’s fitting that the man who had 300,000 people file past his coffin before his state funeral now has a museum dedicated to his life. Baca selengkapnya.
The world’s only museum dedicated to fans. It’s a tiny space consisting of two rooms with an overall collection of 3,500 antique fans, some of which date as far back as the eleventh century. Baca selengkapnya.
A 25-foot Alaskan totem pole outside the main entrance gives a clue as to what’s in here: a wealth of quirky anthropological and natural history treasures. Baca selengkapnya.
A reliable Soho standard for decades, with pleasingly unmolested decor and interesting, well-kept beer. It’s a survivor of the literary Soho of old. Baca selengkapnya.
Where once fine and varied sausages were the main selling points of this well-hidden pub near Charing Cross post office, now it's sought-after ales. Baca selengkapnya.
Bradley’s may call itself a bar, but it’s indisputably one of the West End’s few great pubs, and home to London’s most appealing jukebox, a vinyl-driven, genre-spanning monster. Baca selengkapnya.
There's been a business located at this gateway to a cobbled alleyway since 1730. But as a pub it had its heyday in the mid 20th century, when George Orwell was a regular. Baca selengkapnya.
Outstanding British food, interesting real ales and a sympathetic restoration make this Smithfield stalwart a real treasure; pints in pewter tankards add to the cordiality. Baca selengkapnya.
This pub isn’t big but it is still possible to get lost in its two rooms. That might be down to the oddly green colour scheme or the cracking beer from St Peter’s Brewery in Suffolk. Baca selengkapnya.
This spooky ancient tavern is where Dan Brown would buy a beer if he was in town. Shadowy alleys lead into a medieval courtyard where a sign reveals Ye Olde Mitre was built by Bishop Goodrich in 1546. Baca selengkapnya.
This Fleet Street landmark was rebuilt back in 1667 ('in the reign of King Charles II'), and its seventeenth-century history is in large part responsible for its twenty-first-century appeal. Baca selengkapnya.
Built as a memorial to Queen Victoria's husband in 1871, the Royal Albert Hall's vast rotunda was once described by the monarch as looking like 'the British constitution'. Baca selengkapnya.
Kew Gardens is a magnificent World Heritage Site covering 300 acres with over 30,000 species of plants. Baca selengkapnya.
A Grade II-listed Art Deco masterpiece, and Europe's largest brick building, Battersea Power Station is a London icon. Baca selengkapnya.
Simply one of the best comic book stores in the world. As well as having loads of other stuff. If u visit london you simply have to come here. I've done a couple of signings here too.
Best comic book store in London. Large selection of graphic novels. Don't forget to go downstairs
The best selection of comics and the friendliest staff in London - and great wall art!
Located between platforms 9 & 10 is the magical platform 9 3/4, reached only by those travelling to the Hogwarts Academy, such as Harry and his friends in 2001's "Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone." Baca selengkapnya.
Nice indie/alternative and manga section. When in Camden, one of the first places to go.
Get your art and design magazines and books from here! Also, lots of gift ideas at their next door shop.
"The dank, atmospheric tunnels under Waterloo station were discovered by director Hamish Jenkinson when he kicked down a door and trespassed into this epic space that had been unaired for 20 years..." Baca selengkapnya.
This trendy twist on a traditional boozer is one of the few places to soak up the sun near the City. The barbecue is currently in action weekdays and Saturdays from noon, weather permitting. Baca selengkapnya.
Trendy cyclist-friendly café and bike workshop! Have a coffee whilst getting your puncture fixed! Great cakes, and good fresh seasonal ingredients. Open to 10pm.
Great selection of designer toys. Clothing is good, if you're into those kinds of colours. KR host artist signing sessions here on a pretty regular basis, which are always well attended.
Quality darts. Cheap pints. One of the finest of Samuel Smiths central London bars and quiet of an afternoon. Often frequented by the DiS social board - they'll be the ones shouting LEMONSHARK!
Standard second-hand bookstore but venture to the basement and you'll find hundreds of books for just 50p. Heaven.
Very good wine, very good food, excellent service and beautiful 'secret garden' out the back - perfect.
This cemetery’s most famous resident is Karl Marx. In 1970 it became the scene of a mass hunt for the ‘Highgate Vampire’, sparked by local rumours of supernatural activity.
Opened in 1848 as Waterloo Bridge Station, it grew in such a chaotic way (16 platforms, 10 platform numbers) that it was a running joke amongst Londoners, and had to be completely rebuilt in 1899.
Oxford Street’s biggest department store was opened by the American businessman Gordon J Selfridge in 1909, whose motto was ‘The customer is always right’.
Hyde Park was a favourite venue for duellists in the 18th and 19th century, including the brutal 1712 duel between the Duke of Hamilton and Lord Mohun in which they hacked each other to death.
The Mayflower, the ship that carried the Pilgrims to America in 1620, set sail from near this pub, and it also ended its days here. Timbers from the ship are said to have been used to build the pub.
‘Billionaires Boulevard’ tells you all you need to know about local property prices. Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, the richest man in Europe, bought Nos.18-19 for £70 million in 2005.
This old docks area was London’s original Chinatown. It had an exaggerated reputation for opium dens and crime, which led to the creation of such nefarious literary figures as Dr Fu Manchu.
In 1986 Rupert Murdoch moved The Times newspaper printing offices from Fleet Street to this modern site, the old infilled London Dock. It was bitterly opposed by the printers who went on strike.
Since 1994 this has been the home of MI5, Britain’s home security service. The building itself was completed in 1930, using land cleared after the 1928 Thames flood.
Horace Walpole, art historian and son of Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole, built his ‘little Gothic castle’ over 30 years, recreating medieval styles that helped spearhead the Gothic revival.
Founded in 1992, this museum holds one of the world’s best and largest collections of historic print technology, from the 16th century to the present day.
The shop with the big clock is where Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood opened ‘Let It Rock’ in 1971 (renamed SEX in 1974). It’s considered the birthplace of the British punk scene.
This club was still being built as a cinema when the First World War broke out, and it became an aircraft factory. It opened as the King’s Cross Cinema in 1920, which closed in 1974.
The Coliseum opened in 1904 as a ‘people’s palace of entertainment’. During WW2 it became a canteen for air raid wardens, and Winston Churchill once addressed them from the theatre stage.
‘Platform 9 and 3/4 ‘ is a site of pilgrimage for fans of Harry Potter, as this is the place of departure for the Hogwarts Express. A luggage trolley ‘disappearing’ through a wall marks the spot.
The 3,000th branch of the hamburger chain and the first in the UK opened in Woolwich in 1974. Woolwich was regarded as a typical suburban area, and if it succeeded here, it could succeed anywhere!
The smallest of the three Southbank music venues specialises in chamber music, solo performances, mime and spoken word. It has a capacity of 370.
The first station opened here in 1863. Now about 2,000 trains pass through each day, making it the busiest station in Europe (but Shinjuku, Tokyo is now the busiest in the world).
This historic pub on the site of a tollgate was once the haunt of highwaymen, who when caught were hanged nearby. The pub appears in Dickens’ Pickwick Papers and in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
It was at William Wilberforce’s home here that evangelical reformers formed the Clapham Sect. The group lead the campaign for the abolition of the slave trade, achieved in 1807.
The legendary guitarist died here in 1970 whilst staying with his girlfriend Monika Dannemann, in what was then the Samarkand Hotel. It’s now a private house at 22 Lansdowne Crescent.
This was once the grounds of Holland House, famous for its literary salons in the early 1800s and for its lavish society balls later in the century. The house was destroyed in the Blitz.
Oscar Wilde lived here between 1884 and his arrest in 1895 on charges of sodomy and gross indecency, following his failed libel case against the Marquis of Queensbury.
Judy Garland married fifth husband Mickey Deans at the Registry Office here in 1969, saying ‘This is it. For the first time in my life, I am really happy.’ She died of an overdose 3 months later.
Created for Sephardi Jews from Spain and Portugal, this is the oldest Jewish cemetery in England. It dates from 1657, the year Oliver Cromwell overturned the 1290 expulsion of Jews from England.
This fascinating museum is located in an old Georgian sugar warehouse, and tells the 2,000 year story of London’s river, port and people. It also houses the archives of the Port of London Authority.
What began as a small theatre in the back of the pub opened as a music hall in 1859, and is now the oldest surviving example in the world. It’s claimed the can-can was first performed in the UK here.
This was a suffragette headquarters during their campaign for votes for women from 1907. Later it was a trendy wedding venue – Peter Sellers, George Harrison and Ringo Starr all tied the knot here.
Britain’s oldest wine merchant has supplied the Royal Family since the reign of George III. The giant coffee scales have been used to weigh famous customers including William Pitt and Lord Byron.
On this site once stood the grand home of Prime Minister Lord Shelburne. In one of its rooms in 1782 he negotiated a treaty with Benjamin Franklin that ended the American War of Independence.
This was the site of London’s infamous Tyburn gallows, where criminals were publicly hanged between 1400 and 1783. Hangings were popular spectacles with a carnival atmosphere!
Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club opened on nearby Gerrard St in 1959, moved here in 1965 and is now the most famous jazz club in Britain. Jimi Hendrix’s played his last public performance here in 1970.
Opening in 1797, this is the oldest book shop in Britain and once stocked the country house libraries of Britain’s aristocrats. Byron, Wellington, Disraeli and Wilde were all regular customers.
The attic of 22 Frith St was once the laboratory of inventor John Logie Baird. In 1925 a passing officer-worker was asked for help, and found himself making history as the first person on television!
This street’s connection with printing goes back to 1500, when a press was set up here by William Caxton’s apprentice. The world’s first daily paper, the Daily Courant, was printed here from 1702.
Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales- the first great work in English, was born here in 1343.
Buildings of the old Dominican friary were converted into London’s first covered theatre here in 1596 by James Burbage. Shakespeare lived next door, and almost certainly performed here.
This crossing has the distinction of being London’s ‘least remarkable bridge’! It retains the pale blue colour scheme it had when it opened 1940, as camouflage against German air attack.
This pub is named after the Maria Wood, an ornate steamboat used by the Lord Mayor for official occasions, built in 1816 and moored nearby. This pub also starred in the Beatles film Help!
This vegetarian restaurant began life as a squat kitchen in the 1980s. Today it’s still run as a collective, with a different cook every night, and boasts of its friendly bohemian atmosphere.
This cosy riverside pub dates back to the 16th century, and boasts the smallest bar in England – 4 foot 2 inches by 7 foot 10 inches.
The great Roman fortifications which enclosed Roman and medieval London survive only in patches. The best remains of the 5 metre high defensive wall can be found along... London Wall.
The dark curve of stone in the pavement here marks the outline of the Roman amphitheatre, where gladiator fights and animal-baiting once entertained the people of Londinium.
This simple rock, now lying in the wall of a Chinese bank, was once the most famous landmark in the city. Its origins are lost in legend and myth, but it was considered the city’s symbolic heart.
A narrow staircase gives way to cabinets stuffed with dolls, bears, toy theatres, puppets, mechanical toys and even a 4,000-year-old Egyptian mouse made from Nile clay. Baca selengkapnya.
Absolutely gorgeous; interior design (note booths and etched glass dividers) mean this is a stunning place to be - and cheap Sam Smiths beer!
Great people watching venue - and a great respite from the shops - literally on the corner of the main shopping street.
One of my favourite bars in London. Downstairs with the private booths, and upstairs for big couches. As with all other Samual Smiths, very very cheap beer (alpine larger isn't bad), especially for ce
This pub only serves it's own brand beer. No Peroni, Stella or any alcopops here. A proper old school pub in the heart of Soho. Really busy pre theatre. Pint of "pure brewed lager" is less than 3 quid
Smokers: great little 'secret passage' down the side of this pub, which doesn't lead anywhere but is a good place for a confidential chat and crafty cig.
The Rookery is a snug bar-restaurant facing Clapham Common that opened in 2011. The location is perfect for Sunday strollers, many of whom drop in while passing, though it’s best to book. Baca selengkapnya.
