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Photo from Google Maps · The Savoy

Google rating 4.7 (11,133)

Strand, London WC2R 0EZ, UK

Hotel

The Savoy is a luxury hotel on the Strand, opened in 1889 by Richard D'Oyly Carte with profits from his…

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Photo from Google Maps · Park Plaza London Westminster Bridge

Google rating 4.5 (14,637)

200 Westminster Bridge Rd, London SE1 7UT, UK

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Park Plaza Westminster Bridge is a large modern hotel at the south end of Westminster Bridge, a few minutes…

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Photo from Google Maps · The Ned London

Google rating 4.5 (8,038)

27 Poultry, London EC2R 8AJ, UK

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The Ned is a hotel in the City of London, opened in 2017 inside the former Midland Bank headquarters…

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Photo from Google Maps · JW Marriott Grosvenor House London

Google rating 4.5 (5,919)

86-90 Park Ln, London W1K 7TN, UK

Hotel

JW Marriott Grosvenor House stands on Park Lane facing Hyde Park, on the site of the former London home of…

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Photo from Google Maps · Dinçer Gonca

Google rating 4.2 (10,868)

372 Strand, London WC2R 0JJ, UK

Hotel

Strand Palace is a long-established hotel at 372 Strand, between Covent Garden and the river in the heart of…

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Photo from Google Maps · The Tower Hotel, by Thistle

Google rating 4.1 (12,550)

St Katharine's Way, London E1W 1LD, UK

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The Tower Hotel stands on St Katharine's Way right beside Tower Bridge, with many rooms looking straight at…

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Photo from Google Maps · Zedwell Piccadilly Circus

Google rating 4.0 (11,008)

Great Windmill St, London W1D 7DH, UK

Hotel

Zedwell Piccadilly Circus is a hotel inside the London Trocadero building on Great Windmill Street, a minute…

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Photo from Google Maps · Hessah Alabdulkarim

Google rating 4.3 (4,908)

6 Hercules Rd, London SE1 7DP, UK

Hotel

Park Plaza London Waterloo is a large modern hotel on Hercules Road in Lambeth, a couple of minutes from…

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Photo from Google Maps · Hilton London Metropole

Google rating 3.9 (10,120)

225 Edgware Rd, London W2 1JU, UK

Hotel

The Hilton London Metropole is a large four-star hotel and conference centre at 225 Edgware Road, near…

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Photo from Google Maps · The Londoner

Google rating 4.6 (2,445)

38 Leicester Square, London WC2H 7DX, UK

Hotel

The Londoner is a 350-room luxury hotel on Leicester Square, run by Edwardian Hotels London.

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Photo from Google Maps · Royal National Hotel

Google rating 3.6 (18,264)

38-51 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0DG, UK

Hotel

The Royal National Hotel is a large, good-value hotel on Bedford Way in Bloomsbury, about a minute from…

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Photo from Google Maps · London Bridge Hotel

Google rating 4.5 (1,361)

8-18 London Bridge St, London SE1 9SG, UK

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London Bridge Hotel is an independent boutique hotel on London Bridge Street, directly opposite London…

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Photo from Google Maps · The Z Hotel Trafalgar

Google rating 4.5 (1,285)

53-59 Chandos Pl, London WC2N 4HS, UK

Hotel

The Z Hotel Trafalgar on Chandos Place offers 141 compact rooms a couple of minutes from Charing Cross.

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Photo from Google Maps · Assembly Leicester Square

Google rating 4.2 (1,773)

27 - 31 Charing Cross Rd, London WC2H 0LS, UK

Hotel

Assembly Leicester Square is a compact design hotel on Charing Cross Road, between Leicester Square and…

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Photo from Google Maps · The Z Hotel Holborn

Google rating 4.2 (1,509)

75 Kingsway, London WC2B 6SR, UK

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The Z Hotel Holborn on Kingsway offers small, cleverly designed rooms two minutes' walk from Holborn tube,…

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Photo from Google Maps · Grand Royale Hyde Park

Google rating 3.7 (2,558)

1-9 Inverness Terrace, London W2 3JP, UK

Hotel

Grand Royale Hyde Park is a 189-room hotel on Inverness Terrace in Bayswater, part of the Montcalm Collection.

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Photo from Google Maps · Travelodge London Battersea

Google rating 3.2 (1,370)

200 York Rd, London SW11 3SA, UK

Hotel

Travelodge London Battersea is a budget hotel on York Road, between Wandsworth and Battersea, with paid…

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56-60 Guildford Street

Hotel

The President Hotel is a London lodging situated at 56-60 Guildford Street.

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48-55 Tavistock Square

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The Tavistock Hotel is an accommodation provider situated at 48-55 Tavistock Square in London.

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21 Piccadilly

Hotel

The Dilly is a central London hotel situated at 21 Piccadilly.

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Photo from Google Maps · Dishoom Shoreditch

Google rating 4.8 (48,830)

7 Boundary St, London E2 7JE, UK

Restaurant

Dishoom Shoreditch, opened in 2012 on Boundary Street, is styled on the old Irani cafés of Bombay and serves…

Photo from Google Maps · Circolo Popolare

Google rating 4.8 (43,220)

40-41 Rathbone Pl, London W1T 1HX, UK

Restaurant

Circolo Popolare is the Big Mamma group's Fitzrovia trattoria on Rathbone Place, known for walls lined with…

Photo from Google Maps · Dishoom Covent Garden

Google rating 4.7 (30,017)

12 Upper St Martin's Ln, London WC2H 9FB, UK

Restaurant

Dishoom Covent Garden is a Bombay-style café on Upper St Martin's Lane, styled on the cinema era of 1940s…

Photo from Google Maps · Dishoom Carnaby

Google rating 4.7 (22,821)

22 Kingly St, Carnaby, London W1B 5QP, UK

Restaurant

Dishoom Carnaby on Kingly Street is the Soho branch of the Bombay-style café group, themed on the 1960s…

Photo from Google Maps · Dishoom Kensington

Google rating 4.8 (17,433)

4 Derry St, London W8 5SE, UK

Restaurant

Dishoom Kensington is the Derry Street branch of the Bombay-style café group, dressed in Art Deco style and…

Photo from Google Maps · Fallow

Google rating 4.7 (13,850)

52 Haymarket, London SW1Y 4RP, UK

Restaurant

Fallow is a modern British restaurant at St James's Market on Haymarket, a few minutes from Piccadilly Circus.

Photo from Google Maps · Victoria House Coffee & Food

Google rating 4.8 (9,028)

5 Coptic St, London WC1A 1NH, UK

Café

Victoria House Coffee & Food is a cafe on Coptic Street in Bloomsbury, a couple of minutes' walk from the…

Photo from Google Maps · David Nejedlý

Google rating 4.6 (13,138)

42 Newington Causeway, London SE1 6DR, UK

Restaurant

Mercato Metropolitano at Elephant & Castle is a large community food market in a former paper factory on…

Photo from Google Maps · L'ETO Wardour Street

Google rating 4.6 (13,106)

155 Wardour St, London W1F 8WG, UK

Café

L'ETO on Wardour Street is a Soho café and patisserie, one of a small group of London branches.

Photo from Google Maps · Duck & Waffle

Google rating 4.4 (17,629)

110 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4AY, UK

Restaurant

Duck & Waffle is a restaurant on the 40th floor of 110 Bishopsgate in the City of London, and it never…

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Tattu Soho

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Google rating 4.7 (8,384)

The Now Building Rooftop, Outernet, Denmark St, London WC2H 0LA, UK

Restaurant

Tattu London is a modern Chinese restaurant on the rooftop of the Now Building at Outernet, beside Tottenham…

Photo from Google Maps · Mercato Mayfair

Google rating 4.5 (10,005)

St. Mark's Church, 13A N Audley St, London W1K 6ZA, UK

Restaurant

Mercato Mayfair is a food market inside St Mark's Church on North Audley Street, a Grade I listed building a…

Photo from Google Maps · Seven Dials Market

Google rating 4.5 (9,875)

Earlham St, London WC2H 9LX, UK

Restaurant

Seven Dials Market is an indoor street food hall in Thomas Neal's Warehouse, a 19th-century building off…

Photo from Google Maps · Massimo Graziosi

Google rating 4.5 (9,875)

14-16 Rupert St, London W1D 6DD, UK

Pub

Waxy O'Connor's is a big Irish pub on Rupert Street, on the edge of Soho, laid out as a labyrinth of four…

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Riviera

££££

Google rating 4.8 (5,459)

23 St James's St, London SW1A 1HA, UK

Restaurant

Riviera is a large South of France-inspired restaurant on St James's Street, run by Emerald Hospitality…

Photo from Google Maps · Thao

Google rating 4.7 (6,418)

37 Whitehall, London SW1A 2BX, UK

Pub

Nestled on Whitehall, Old Shades is a traditional London pub, serving the capital since 1898.

Photo from Google Maps · Blacklock Soho

Google rating 4.7 (5,333)

24 Great Windmill St, London W1D 7LG, UK

Restaurant

Blacklock Soho is a basement chophouse on Great Windmill Street, a few minutes from Piccadilly Circus.

Photo from Google Maps · St Stephen's Tavern

Google rating 4.4 (8,343)

10 Bridge St, London SW1A 2JR, UK

Pub

St Stephen's Tavern on Bridge Street has been pouring pints beside the Houses of Parliament since 1875.

Photo from Google Maps · Gary Gao

Google rating 4.2 (10,005)

10 Northumberland St, London WC2N 5DB, UK

Pub

The Sherlock Holmes is a Victorian-style pub on Northumberland Street, between Charing Cross and Trafalgar…

Photo from Google Maps · Boz Baral

Google rating 4.4 (5,998)

Victoria Embankment, London SW1A 2HR, UK

Pub

Tattershall Castle is a former paddle steamer moored on Victoria Embankment, now a floating pub and…

Photo from Google Maps · The Harp, Covent Garden

Google rating 4.6 (3,774)

47 Chandos Pl, London WC2N 4HS, UK

Pub

The Harp on Chandos Place is a narrow, traditional pub between Covent Garden and Trafalgar Square, and the…

Photo from Google Maps · BrokenWaffle

Google rating 4.7 (2,889)

16a Bedford St, London WC2E 9HE, UK

Restaurant

Blacklock Covent Garden is a steak and chophouse on Bedford Street, a short walk from the Piazza and the…

Photo from Google Maps · Maddison Pickering

Bantof

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Google rating 4.8 (2,146)

31 Great Windmill St, London W1D 7LW, UK

Restaurant

Bantof is a Mediterranean restaurant on Great Windmill Street in Soho, spread over three floors with a…

Photo from Google Maps · redtomauve

Google rating 4.5 (2,455)

2 Craven Passage, London WC2N 5NF, UK

Pub

The Ship & Shovell is a Grade II listed pub with a quirk: it occupies two buildings facing each other across…

Photo from Google Maps · Trinidad Santander Altea

Google rating 4.2 (3,788)

29 St Martin's Ln, London WC2N 4ER, UK

Pub

The Chandos is a Victorian Samuel Smith's pub on St Martin's Lane, a minute from Trafalgar Square and the…

Photo from Google Maps · Borna Ljubicic

Google rating 4.6 (1,663)

10 Upper St Martin's Ln, London WC2H 9FB, UK

Restaurant

Olea Social is a Mediterranean restaurant with Turkish influences on Upper St Martin's Lane in Covent Garden.

Photo from Google Maps · Crudo Covent Garden

Google rating 4.8 (1,169)

36 Monmouth St, London WC2H 9HA, UK

Restaurant

Crudo Covent Garden, on Monmouth Street in Seven Dials, serves modern Latin American food built around…

Google rating 4.8 (187,359)

Tower Bridge Rd, London SE1 2UP, UK

Attraction

Tower Bridge, opened in 1894, is London's most recognisable bridge and a visitor attraction in its own right.

Google rating 4.7 (144,146)

London, UK

Attraction

Hyde Park is one of London's Royal Parks, around 350 acres of lawns, trees and water between Marble Arch,…

Google rating 4.7 (123,041)

London EC3N 4AB, UK

Attraction

The Tower of London is a castle, royal palace and former prison on the north bank of the Thames, founded…

Google rating 4.5 (206,159)

Riverside Building, County Hall, Westminster Bridge Rd, London SE1 7PB, UK

Attraction

The London Eye is the 135-metre observation wheel on the South Bank, opposite the Houses of Parliament.

Google rating 4.6 (153,563)

54-56 Camden Lock Pl, London NW1 8AF, UK

Attraction

Camden Market spreads across three linked sites beside the Regent's Canal: Camden Lock, the Stables and…

Google rating 4.5 (196,643)

London SW1A 1AA, UK

Attraction

Buckingham Palace is the monarch's official London residence, with 775 rooms behind its famous East Front.

Google rating 4.6 (141,379)

Trafalgar Sq, London WC2N 5DS, UK

Attraction

Trafalgar Square is London's best-known public space, named in 1830 and anchored by Nelson's Column,…

Google rating 4.6 (132,432)

London SE1 9AH, UK

Attraction

Borough Market is London's best-known food market, trading near the foot of London Bridge for around a…

Google rating 4.6 (126,925)

41 The Piazza, London WC2E 8RF, UK

Landmark

Covent Garden is the historic piazza and covered market at the heart of London's West End, free to wander…

Photo from Google Maps · Jemin Park

Google rating 4.8 (64,305)

Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN, UK

Attraction

The National Gallery fills the north side of Trafalgar Square with more than 2,300 European paintings from…

Google rating 4.6 (99,396)

London SW1A 0AA, UK

Landmark

Big Ben is the nickname of the Great Bell in the clock tower at the north end of the Palace of Westminster,…

Photo from Google Maps · Stéphanie Drcl

Google rating 4.6 (78,974)

1, Sky Garden Walk, London EC3M 8AF, UK

Attraction

Sky Garden is a public garden at the top of 20 Fenchurch Street, the City of London tower nicknamed the…

Google rating 4.8 (48,565)

Kensington Gore, South Kensington, London SW7 2AP, UK

Attraction

The Royal Albert Hall in South Kensington is London's great Victorian concert hall, opened by Queen Victoria…

Google rating 4.4 (129,476)

87-135 Brompton Rd, London SW1X 7XL, UK

Attraction

Harrods is London's best-known department store, filling a vast building on Brompton Road in Knightsbridge.

Google rating 4.7 (58,494)

St. Paul's Churchyard, London EC4M 8AD, UK

Attraction

St Paul's Cathedral is Christopher Wren's domed masterpiece in the City of London, built between 1675 and…

Photo from Google Maps · Snehal Mistry

Google rating 4.6 (67,341)

London EC4R 3TN, UK

Landmark

London Bridge carries traffic and walkers between the City and Southwark at the oldest crossing point on the…

Google rating 4.6 (53,189)

Dean's Yard, London SW1P 3PA, UK

Attraction

Westminster Abbey is London's royal church, where coronations have taken place since 1066.

Google rating 4.6 (47,938)

32 London Bridge St, London SE1 9SG, UK

Attraction

The Shard at London Bridge is Western Europe's tallest building, and its public viewing gallery, The View…

Google rating 4.6 (40,665)

Cromwell Rd, South Kensington, London SW7 5BD, UK

Attraction

The Natural History Museum on Cromwell Road, South Kensington, is free to visit and one of London's most…

Photo from Google Maps · Selfridges

Google rating 4.5 (47,814)

400 Oxford St, London W1A 1AB, UK

Attraction

Selfridges on Oxford Street is the London department store Harry Gordon Selfridge opened in March 1909.

Google rating 4.6 (32,224)

Circus Rd W, Nine Elms, London SW11 8DD, UK

Attraction

Battersea Power Station is the four-chimneyed brick landmark on the Thames at Nine Elms, now reopened as a…

Google rating 4.6 (25,315)

21 New Globe Walk, London SE1 9DT, UK

Attraction

Shakespeare's Globe is a reconstruction of the 1599 Globe Theatre on Bankside, about 230 metres from the…

Photo from Google Maps · Liberty London

Google rating 4.5 (25,558)

Regent St., Carnaby, London W1B 5AH, UK

Landmark

Liberty is the West End department store in a striking 1924 mock-Tudor building on Great Marlborough Street,…

Google rating 4.5 (25,407)

Leicester Square, London WC2H 7LU, UK

Attraction

Leicester Square is the heart of London's cinema world, the West End square where most big UK film premieres…

Google rating 4.4 (23,352)

London W2 2UH, UK

Landmark

Marble Arch is the white triumphal arch at the western end of Oxford Street, on the corner of Hyde Park.

Photo from Google Maps · T J

Google rating 4.7 (10,419)

Ashley Pl, London SW1P 1LT, UK

Attraction

Westminster Cathedral, off Victoria Street, is the largest Catholic church in England and Wales and the seat…

Photo from Google Maps · Scott McCall

Google rating 4.4 (13,434)

London WC2E 7BB, UK

Attraction

London Transport Museum on Covent Garden Piazza tells the story of how the city moves, with real buses,…

Photo from Google Maps · Ebrahim Al Homoud

Google rating 4.8 (5,923)

Chester Rd, London NW1 4NR, UK

Attraction

Queen Mary's Gardens in The Regent's Park hold London's largest collection of roses, about 8,000 plants in…

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Walkable riverside culture from Tate Modern to the National Theatre.

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