Strand
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Restaurants2
Ikoyi★★2◆
Destination · West African-spiced tasting · Strand · $$$$
booking essential
Jeremy Chan and Ire Hassan-Odukale opened this in 2017 with, as the award body that later ranked them fifteenth in the world put it, "little formal training between them" (The World's 50 Best).
Toklas
Solid · Mediterranean · Strand · $$$
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Toklas opened on 19 October 2021 in a Brutalist former car park off the Strand, and its own diners have scored it Average, then Very Good, and now a notch lower again in the year its chef left (Harden's).
Pubs & cask1
The Stranded
Solid · Craft lager · Strand · $$
walk-in
The bar is thirteen meters of Czech-built joinery fitted with the side-pour taps you would otherwise have to be in Prague to drink from, and the Budvar comes in two-thirds tankards rather than pints so the foam has room (CAMRA, surveyed August 2025).
Bakes & sweet1
Toklas Cafe and Bakery
Solid · Pastries · Strand · $$
walk-in
They mill the grain for the sourdough on site, which Time Out's Food and Drink Editor noticed and the bakery itself mentions nowhere (Time Out).
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