Where to Start on Eater London’s Best Maps Preparing paté en croute at Cadet, in Newington Green. This guide will paint as complete a picture of this great city as it can - so let’s get started. It will help readers navigate Chinatown and Borough Market, and will travel between Soho and Shoreditch from King’s Cross to Camberwell and to Brixton from Bermondsey. It spans bao, pho, moo krob pork pies, pica pollo, and burgers. It will chart the best Sunday roasts, the freshest fish and chips, the smoothest espressos, and the frostiest ice cream the pubs, the curries, the English breakfasts, and the dim sum.īut it will also steer its readers in the direction of some of the world’s greatest barbecue, whether that’s jerk chicken from the oil drums of London’s great Jamaican chefs the intoxicating nasal rush of yaji, which coats the tozo suya of south London’s hottest Nigerian and Ghanaian grills or the plethora of Turkish ocakbaşi lining Green Lanes and the roads of north Dalston. Yes, this guide will direct readers to the city’s most-interesting modern kitchens, to its Michelin-starred restaurants, and to its natural wine bars and small plates. But a neophyte’s dream this guide is not, because food in London did not suddenly get good in 2010. For years now, money and an energetic, peripatetic youth have helped London shed its reputation as one of the globe’s least imaginative culinary cities. Welcome to the Big Smoke, one of the world’s most exciting places to eatĪ city of sport, of music, of politics (and dodgy politicians), and history, London is one of the great European world capitals in which to eat and drink. This guide will make it easier to escape not just the tourist traps, but to move beyond the received wisdom of what is regarded as “best” - in all, to help readers truly understand and better navigate a city in which it really is possible to eat very well indeed. In this city, it is easier to eat badly than it is to eat well: It is difficult to know where to start and where to go it is important to know what to try and where to get it. Red buses, black cabs, old buildings from Heathrow to Hackney, Borough to Brixton, Notting Hill to East Ham, London is a capital city of landmarks and neighbourhoods, of immigrant cuisines and stratification - of time-honoured traditions and world-class innovations, of venture capital and family businesses.
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