Clerkenwell
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Restaurants7
The Quality Chop House
Destination · British chophouse · Clerkenwell · $$$
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The à la carte is written in the kitchen every morning, and one dish has never been allowed off it: potatoes sliced thin, pressed overnight into a slab, cut into fat chips and fried in duck fat (The Quality Chop House).
Luca
Solid · Britalian · Clerkenwell · $$$$
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Daniel Willis and Johnny Smith opened Luca in 2016 as the Italian counterpart to The Clove Club and called the cooking Britalian, meaning Italian technique run on British produce.
BruttoBib
Solid · Tuscan trattoria · Clerkenwell · $$
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Russell Norman opened this in September 2021 and died in November 2023, and the diners' survey says his widow Jules and son Ollie "are doing full justice to his legacy" (Harden's).
Black Bear Burger (Exmouth Market)
Solid · Burgers · Clerkenwell · $$
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Every patty is dry-aged beef from grass-fed native breeds, ground as a blend of cuts rather than one commodity mince, which is why the crust behaves the way it does under the smash.
Morito
Solid · Spanish and North African tapas · Clerkenwell · $$
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Sam and Sam Clark built this next door to Moro to be the loud one: tapas and mezze off an orange counter, with the wine list running low-intervention.
Pizza Pilgrims (Exmouth Market)
Listed · Neapolitan pizza · Clerkenwell · $$
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The dough is double fermented and goes into the oven at 500C, and the nduja on it is Nduja di Spilinga DOP, which this company was using on pizza in London before most kitchens here had heard of the stuff (Pizza Pilgrims, Hot Dinners).
Breddos Tacos Clerkenwell
Listed · Mexican-influenced tacos · Clerkenwell · $$
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Nud and Chris started in a Hackney car park in 2013, and the masa fried chicken taco is what the permanent room is for.
Craft beer2
The Dovetail
Solid · Belgian beer · Clerkenwell · $$
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A hundred bottles deep in Belgian beer, nineteen of them Trappist, with gueuze and lambic on a shelf that almost no London bar bothers to keep (CAMRA).
Mikkeller Brewpub London
Listed · Craft beer brewpub · Clerkenwell · $$
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The brewhouse is in the building and runs 7.5 hectolitres a batch, so the beer in your glass came off a tank a few metres away.
Pubs & cask2
Sutton Arms
Solid · Craft beer · Clerkenwell · $$
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Three changing cask beers and no regular beer at all, in a pub that has been a free house since 1991, with Kernel, Fyne Ales and Oakham the names that come round most often (CAMRA, surveyed January 2026).
The Craft Beer Co. Clerkenwell
Solid · Craft beer · Clerkenwell · $$
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Sixteen handpumps, fourteen of them guest cask from independent microbreweries, on a Leather Lane corner that Greene King let go in 2011.
Cocktails1
The Zetter Townhouse Clerkenwell
Listed · Cocktail bar · Clerkenwell · $$$
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A bartender best known for laboratory work built the list here and then made it restrained, which is the opposite of what the room looks like it should serve.
Coffee1
Prufrock Coffee
Solid · Specialty coffee · Clerkenwell · $
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A World Barista Champion opened this bar on Leather Lane in 2011, and the guest roasts still change over the top of the house Square Mile.
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