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Restaurants9
Sweetings
Destination · Seafood · City of London · $$$
walk-in
The man who owns Sweetings is the man who buys its fish: Mr Barfoot took over in 2000 as the fifth owner in the restaurant's history, and Barfoot Ltd still picks the daily catch (venue site).
Three Uncles
Solid · Cantonese roast meats · City of London · $
walk-in
The duck and the pork are hung and fan dried overnight before they go anywhere near an oven, and there are fifteen stools to eat them on.
Banh Mi Keu Deli City
Listed · Vietnamese · City of London · $
walk-in
Hieu Bui's test for a serious Vietnamese kitchen is how long the broth takes.
Hawksmoor Guildhall
Listed · Steak · City of London · $$$$
booking essential
Dolly's, which may have been the world's first steakhouse and was supposedly handed by Queen Anne to her favorite cook around 1702, stood a few streets from this door, and there is an etching of her in the private dining room (Hawksmoor, The Nudge).
Koya City
Listed · Udon · City of London · $$
book ahead
Shuko Oda's udon comes out of Koya's own noodle workshop, and this is the branch with 60 seats and an evening booking sheet.
temper City
Listed · Live-fire barbecue · City of London · $$$
book ahead
Neil Rankin opened this one months after Soho and pointed it at India, so the fire pit sends out smoked meat with parathas and curry-side dishes.
Assenheims 56
Listed · Sandwiches · City of London · $
walk-in
Assenheims has sold the same thing since 1989: chicken marinated then grilled until it chars, portioned by the 100 grams, and finished with a green sauce of coriander, spices and cold-pressed rapeseed oil that effectively gives the business its name (Time Out, 2015).
Le Relais de Venise l'Entrecôte
Listed · French steak frites · City of London · $$
walk-in
Two questions at the table, how you want the meat and red or white, and after that the kitchen decides everything.
Kurumaya St Paul's
Listed · Japanese · City of London · $$
book ahead
A kaiten belt runs all day at street level and the basement is a different restaurant, with sunken tatami seating and a kitchen cooking to order.
Markets1
The Garden at 120
Listed · Roof garden with a kiosk · City of London · $
walk-inthe room’s own account
Fifteen storeys up on Fenchurch Street, free, no booking, and the lifts go straight there from the street.
Provisions1
Porterford Butchers
Listed · Sandwiches · City of London · $
walk-in
Porterford is the City of London's only butcher, trading on Watling Street since 1983, and it grills its own meat into baguettes over the same counter that sells A5 Japanese wagyu ribeye (City AM; venue site).
Pubs & cask1
Jamaica Wine House
Solid · Pub food · City of London · $$
walk-in
Three mahogany screens stand at right angles to the counter and cut the room into four, a layout CAMRA says survives nowhere else.
Gin1
Merchant House London
Solid · Cocktail bar · City of London · $$$
walk-in
Over a thousand bottles across three small rooms at one address, six hundred of them whisky, sitting alongside gin and rum collections built around the history of the trade that funded the City above them (Merchant House).
Coffee2
Rosslyn Coffee Queen Victoria Street
Solid · Specialty coffee · City of London · $
walk-in
You stand, you drink, and you read the financial pages they pin to the walls every day.
WatchHouse Bishopsgate
Listed · Specialty coffee · City of London · $$
walk-in
This is one of the group's Espresso Houses, so the whole food offer is WatchHouse Bakery pastries and sandwiches, and it shuts at the weekend when most of the estate does not (WatchHouse).
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