Guidebook for London
Essentials
This is our favourite supermarket and is just a few minutes walk from the apartment. Take a shopping bag with you! They are stored in the bottom drawer under the hob.
67 locals recommend
Waitrose & Partners Barbican
Whitecross StreetThis is our favourite supermarket and is just a few minutes walk from the apartment. Take a shopping bag with you! They are stored in the bottom drawer under the hob.
This daily - every weekday lunch - market is full of incredibly foods from around the world. Why bother to cook when you can eat so well and so cheaply when you buy out! Also, stalls selling amazing sourdough bread and great cakes.
53 locals recommend
Whitecross Street Market
132 Whitecross StThis daily - every weekday lunch - market is full of incredibly foods from around the world. Why bother to cook when you can eat so well and so cheaply when you buy out! Also, stalls selling amazing sourdough bread and great cakes.
Food Scene
A charming coffee and snack bar, just a few steps from the apartment
81 locals recommend
Look mum no hands!
49 Old StA charming coffee and snack bar, just a few steps from the apartment
This is one of our favourite local restaurants and we eat here very regularly - usually from the bar menu, but sometimes treating ourselves to the main restaurant. Highly recommended.
38 locals recommend
Saint John Restaurant
26 Saint John StreetThis is one of our favourite local restaurants and we eat here very regularly - usually from the bar menu, but sometimes treating ourselves to the main restaurant. Highly recommended.
One of our top restaurants in walking distance from the apartment. This is where we go for a special event - or sometimes if we need to treat ourselves.
131 locals recommend
Moro
34-36 Exmouth MarketOne of our top restaurants in walking distance from the apartment. This is where we go for a special event - or sometimes if we need to treat ourselves.
Voted in top ten London coffee shops in a recent survey -'incredible coffee and delicious food in an old record shop'
12 locals recommend
Brill
27 Exmouth MarketVoted in top ten London coffee shops in a recent survey -'incredible coffee and delicious food in an old record shop'
Coffee lovers hugely recommend this coffee shop - the brunches are also amazing!
51 locals recommend
Workshop Coffee Clerkenwell
27 Clerkenwell RoadCoffee lovers hugely recommend this coffee shop - the brunches are also amazing!
Arts & Culture
We go to the cinema here almost every Monday night when we are in London as the seats are cheap and the film choice is great. We also love the new cafe in the Barbican centre and often drop in for a coffee and snack.
509 locals recommend
Barbican Centre
Silk StreetWe go to the cinema here almost every Monday night when we are in London as the seats are cheap and the film choice is great. We also love the new cafe in the Barbican centre and often drop in for a coffee and snack.
Try to book up to see some contemporary dance at this wonderful venue. I have been seeing dance here since I was a young child and have seen some incredible productions.
253 locals recommend
Sadlers Wells Theatre (Stop UB) station
Try to book up to see some contemporary dance at this wonderful venue. I have been seeing dance here since I was a young child and have seen some incredible productions.
Tate Modern is an easy walk from the apartment and a walk that takes you over the wonderful iconic pedestrian footbridge that crosses the Thames below St Pauls Cathedral taking you directly to the Tate. This gallery is a wonderful place just to hang out. There are new exhibitions throughout the year - check their website - and a wonderful permanent collection of twentieth century art.
2008 locals recommend
Tate Modern
BanksideTate Modern is an easy walk from the apartment and a walk that takes you over the wonderful iconic pedestrian footbridge that crosses the Thames below St Pauls Cathedral taking you directly to the Tate. This gallery is a wonderful place just to hang out. There are new exhibitions throughout the year - check their website - and a wonderful permanent collection of twentieth century art.
Sightseeing
A vibrant bustling street lined with wonderful independent retailers and East London's most popular and extensive flower market - Sunday is the best day to visit
1660 locals recommend
Columbia Road Flower Market
Columbia RoadA vibrant bustling street lined with wonderful independent retailers and East London's most popular and extensive flower market - Sunday is the best day to visit
For sightseeing and general browsing, make sure you save time to visit Spitalfields, both for the antiques market and the great independent retailers that surround the original indoor market
696 locals recommend
Old Spitalfields Market
16 Commercial StFor sightseeing and general browsing, make sure you save time to visit Spitalfields, both for the antiques market and the great independent retailers that surround the original indoor market
Everything Else
Probably the most wonderful place to swim in East London. The lido is open all year round, is 50m long, heated and open to the sky and the elements in Hackney's London Fields
591 locals recommend
London Fields
London Fields West SideProbably the most wonderful place to swim in East London. The lido is open all year round, is 50m long, heated and open to the sky and the elements in Hackney's London Fields