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WhyWaitForever - London - Food and Restaurants
This page contains links to the most famous and most popular restaurants, coffee shops, themed and childrens restaurants, eating guides, and food stores for eating at home or in the open for Londoners and visitors to London.
London has many fine restaurants and eating places. Over the years these have become more sophisticated. Many of the thousands of restaurants in London do not as yet have web sites. They are far too busy creating the finest food. Every speciality is here from every corner of the globe. No city has such a diverse fare. Mr Pickwick and his companions would be well pleased.
The large department stores have restaurants and cafes to suite most tastes. WhyWaitForever - London - Shops - Department Stores contains links to the main department stores.
Coffee and Sandwich Shops
- Costa Cofee
The chain of coffee shops.
- Monmouth Coffee
The shop in Covent Garden.
- Patisserie Valerie
The chain of coffee shops.
- Pret A Manger
The chain of sandwich shops.
- Tomtom Coffee
In Ebury Street Belgravia.
- Starbucks
The large US chain of coffee shop.
Fast food, themed and family restaurants
These restaurants are the global well known chains and are especially suitable for families with children who know what they want and will not accept otherwise.
- Beefeater
A large chain of family restaurants.
- Burger King
The global burger chain.
- City Limits
A themed chain.
- Garfunkels
Family restaurants with an american (New England) feel.
- Hard Rock Cafe
The themed pop and rock restaurant global chain.
- McDonalds
The global burger chain.
- My Old Dutch
Excellent massive savory and sweet pancakes.
- Rainforest Cafe
In the Trocadero, Shaftesbury Avenue, Piccadilly.
- Rock Garden
Memorable for its pop memorabilia.
- Sticky Fingers
Bill Wyman's (who him) cafe in Kensington.
- TGI Fridays
A brash, loud, colourful american over the top style chain with strangely seasoned fries (chips).
Pizza restaurants
- Domino's
The large US pizza chain.
- Pizza Hut
The large pizza chain.
- Pizza Express
A pizza chain with a quieter more relaxed ambience.
Restaurants and groups
These are some of the vast variety of restaurants on offer in London. Base yourself in the West End and enjoy.
- Belgo Restaurants
In Kingsway from the land famous for beer, seafood, frites and chocolate.
- Bibendum
Restaurant and oyster bar in the Fulham Road.
- Boisdale
In Eccleston Street, Pimlico, SW1 a restaurant combining Scottish and French.
- Chelsea Village
The complex which includes a number of restaurants.
- D & D Restaurants
A chain of restaurants.
- Dover Street
French food in London's largest jazz restaurant and bar.
- Motcombs
Belgravia's most famous restaurant and bar.
- Porters
English food in Henrietta Street, WC2.
- Rotisserie Jules
Fried chicken delivered from Bute Street and from Notting Hill Gate.
- Rowleys
English restaurant in Jermyn Street, St James's.
- Savoy Group
A number of the most famous London restaurants including Simpson's in the Strand and Claridges.
- The Collection
A restaurant in Chelsea specialising in modern British.
- The Red Fort
An Indian restaurant in Dean Street, Soho.
Restaurant directories
- English
A guide to traditional English restaurants in London.
- Restaurants
The worldwide guide to restaurants.
- Reviews
Visitor submitted reviews of London restaurants.
- Toptable
A booking service for restaurants.
Food shops and supermarkets
If the weather is good there is nothing finer than a picnic in the park or a well cooked meal at home.
- Asda
Associated dairies now owned by Wall-Mart..a US giant.
- Farmers Markets
National Association of Farmers Markets includes lists of those sited in London.
- Iceland
It used to be lots of frozen boxes perhaps its different.
- Jane Asher Cakes
Jane Asher party cakes from her Chelsea cake and sugar craft shop.
- Sainsbury
The orange one no longer the biggest.
- Morrisons
Formerly Safeway.
- Tesco
The world leading supermarket.
- Thorntons
Chocolate.
- Waitrose
South Ken and college days.
- Whittard
Coffee and teas.
Cookery courses and recipes
- Cordon Bleu
The name that conjures up an image of the most sophisticated of french cusine.
- Floodlight
The path to many courses including cooking.
- Leiths
A school of food and wine that trains cooks and chefs from absolute beginner to the master level.
- Culinary
A wide range of recipes.
Nutrition and food supplements
"We are what we eat. We eat what we want"
Clinical trails carried by competent authorised authorities are the only way to prove or disprove claims relating to nutrition. Case studies outside the disciplines imposed by clinical trials are selective, are arbitary and are open to interpretation. Check claims and labels carefully.
Back to the bronze age claims have been made for nutritional elixirs. In this age of reason to believe in extraordinary diets, food variants and food supplements whose claims have not been tested by clinical trials seems extremely fool hardy. It is not so long ago that human populations were routinely decimated by diet related disorders.
The Greasy Spoon
Londoners have moved on from the liquid lunch or from the meat and two veg in the company canteen to the some would say healthier snatched sandwiches or sushi taken at the office desk. This in combination with a brisk lunch time walk aids the constitution and digestion.
WhyWaitForever - London - Newspapers, WhyWaitForever - London - Television and WhyWaitForever - London - Radio contain links to the sites which have able food and restaurant reviewers.
The WhyWaitForever approach to eating and drinking is to try to cultivate, extend and grow the sophistication of the pallette. This is a matter that takes the fullness of time and even a lifetime can be too short to savour the delicacies available. Lark tongues and gator gritts are not a few of my favourite things and my pallette will never be given the opportunity to try. For historical reasons the language of food is french so it helps to become familiar with the many french terms not easily translatable into english.