Let Secret London Bars and Restaurants guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar places to eat and drink in London.

Step off the beaten track with this fascinating London guide book to the unusual and unfamiliar places to eat and drink in London. Let our local experts Hannah Robinson and Rachel Howard show you the well-hidden treasures and hidden places to eat and drink in this amazing city. Featuring 140 unusual and unfamiliar places, this Secret London Bars and Restaurants guide is ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike.

Inside Secret London Bars and Restaurants:

  • Have lunch with the inmates of a high security prison
  • Stroll through a sex shop into a Mexican restaurant
  • Sing your heart out in a clandestine Korean karaoke club
  • Tap your toes in a gypsy swing club
  • Get pickled in a marooned Irish pub
  • Join the sixties club that's still swinging
  • Drink cappuccinos made by murderous bikers
  • Play petanque in a central London cellar
  • Tap an oak-tree trunk for whisky

Discover 140 places with eye-popping decor, eccentric owners, and unusual menus. This guide to London’s most peculiar and under-the-radar bars and restaurants is for serious foodies, intrepid drinkers, urban explorers and anyone curious to discover the infinite possibilities to have fun in London.

From the publishers of the best-selling Secret London - An unusual guide, the original and still the best of all the many alternative London guides: accept no imitation. Authors Hannah Robinson and Rachel Howard have prowled the city streets, seeking out the hidden, eccentric and overlooked.

The definitive insider’s guide to eating and drinking in London. 

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Let Secret London Bars and Restaurants guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar places to eat and drink in London. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating London Bars and Restaurants guide book.
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London is full of fashionable restaurants and bars, their turnover fuelled by a relentless PR machine that tells locals where to go to see and be seen. This guide is an antidote to food fads, molecular mixologists and celebrity chefs who have morphed into multinational brands. It’s a collection of unusual places in unlikely locations, independent businesses kept afloat by eccentric owners, local institutions oblivious to passing trends. Welcome to this new edition of London’s least hyped restaurants, cafées, bars, and clubs, with over 30 brand-new entries. As before, the food and drink isn’t always the most memorable thing about these places. They are for people who love to explore as much as to eat interesting food. Some are expensive, some are humble. Their diversity – a Somali village restaurant, an Italian Marseillaise fondue joint, a Brixton communal fridge – reflects the cosmopolitan spirit of London, a city that champions the unconventional despite being steeped in tradition. It took a long time to whittle down the final selection, aided by many intrepid dining and drinking partners, whose curiosity, enthusiasm and tolerance for bad meals knew no bounds (we hope they will recognise themselves in these pages). Many of the original finds from the first edition are still so brilliant and remain so defiantly undiscovered that we had to keep them in, amending the write-ups to reflect their latest peculiarities – though we are pleased to report that several haven’t so much as re-patched a cushion cover. Hidden amongst the chapters you will find a few ‘Easter Egg’ surprises: collections of clandestine garden cafés, speakeasy bars, and even secret places to dance salsa – if you feel the need to burn off some of the calories you’ve been consuming. But we are sure there are many more unsung secrets in London that we’ve yet to discover and we’d love to hear your suggestions for the next edition.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9782361958237
Publisert
2026-07-31
Utgave
4. utgave
Utgiver
Jonglez
Vekt
250 gr
Høyde
190 mm
Bredde
105 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
256

Biografisk notat

Hannah Robinson is a writer and film director based in London and Edinburgh. Her films and screenplays are usually fictional and comic, but she has also made many documentaries about rescued buildings and monuments. She has worked as a food journalist for The Scotsman and The List magazine, as a designer for the Edinburgh International Film Festival and has insatiable curiosity for discovering new places, people and stories. Rachel Howard is a journalist and copywriter who has lived in almost every borough in London. A regular contributor to Conde Nast Traveller, National Geographic Traveler, and The Guardian, Rachel writes mainly about travel, food, and the arts. She previously spent a decade writing speeches for the Greek foreign minister. But that's another story.