King's Cross
12 rooms on the London list
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Restaurants4
Dim Sum Duck3◆
Solid · Dim sum · King's Cross · $
walk-in
An owner-couple runs this 20-odd-seat room on King's Cross Road, hand-making dumplings that carry a Michelin Guide listing since February 2022 and a queue that forms at noon daily.
Tamila
Listed · Tamil · King's Cross · $$
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The owners cut a full window into the kitchen wall, which in a curry house next to a mainline station tells you where the money went.
Dishoom (King's Cross)
Listed · Bombay café · King's Cross · $$
walk-in
The dining room is a Victorian railway transit shed, a godown that moved goods between Britain and Bombay for a century, converted in 2014 into what was then the largest Dishoom at around 9,000 square feet.
Pizza Union King's Cross
Listed · Roman-style pizza · King's Cross · $
walk-inthe room’s own account
Roman-style, fire-baked, out in minutes, margherita 5.95, eleven to eleven seven days.
Craft beer1
Beer + Burger (King's Cross)
Listed · Craft beer and burgers · King's Cross · $$
walk-in
Twenty keg lines on a King's Cross corner, and on the day they were read the board carried The Kernel, two Verdants, Pressure Drop, Lost & Grounded, Vault City, Gravity Well, Omnipollo and a Westmalle (Untappd).
Pubs & cask3
The Queen's Head
Solid · Ale & cider · King's Cross · $
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The branch chair's reason for sending people here is a three percent beer: "It's well known for serving one of the best pints of Trinity, brewed by Tottenham's Redemption Brewery and at only 3% ABV, it's remarkably tasty and worth a visit to the Queen's Head for that alone" (CAMRA…
Norfolk Arms
Listed · Spanish-British gastropub · King's Cross · $$
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A Victorian corner pub in the Bloomsbury backstreets that has been cooking Spanish food since 2006 and keeps a sherry list to go with it.
The Lighterman
Listed · Gastropub · King's Cross · $$
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Open House London put three floors of glass over the Regent's Canal at Granary Square and named the pub for the lightermen who worked the flat-bottomed barges below.
Cocktails1
The Megaro
Listed · Italian restaurant and cocktail bar · King's Cross · $$$
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Spagnoletti makes its pasta daily under a lattice of yellow industrial piping, and the bar two floors below washes its bourbon in beef tallow.
Coffee2
Redemption Roasters Coal Drops Yard
Listed · Specialty coffee · King's Cross · $
walk-inthe room’s own account
The Ministry of Justice asked Ted and Max in October 2016 whether they could put a roastery inside a prison, and this arch sells what came out of it.
Frequency Coffee King's Cross
Listed · Specialty coffee · King's Cross · $
walk-inthe room’s own account
A counter at 121 King's Cross Road, one of five Frequency sites, and the obvious domain now points somewhere else.
Bakes & sweet1
Aux Pains de Papy
Listed · French bakery · King's Cross · $
walk-in
Mathieu Esposito starts baking at 1am, and Time Out calls the result "arguably London's most authentic French bread".
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