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Bonds
There are two good reasons for coming to this very smart hotel restaurant: one is to glimpse the awe-inspiring lobby of Threadneedles Hotel; the other is the food. It's a mix of the traditional with the unusual, with dishes like braised pigs' cheeks with chorizo or smoked haddock tortellini with black pudding and buttered leeks.
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Bush Bar
You have to keep an eye out for this bar/restaurant, housed in a converted warehouse and with its entrance down an alleyway off Goldhawk Rd. It's light and breezy with a wonderful tented terrace, and the decent restaurant and bar attract a trendy media crowd after work with their great cocktails and food. The menu is familiar and comforting - London Particular, salt beef with braised cabbage, smoked haddock fishcakes - rather than inventive.
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Canteen
Voted the Observer Food Monthly 's Best UK Restaurant in 2007, this very stylish yet affordable eatery just west of Spitalfields Market has an all-day menu that will please almost every taste - from macaroni and cheese and shop-made pies to smoked haddock. The management and waiting staff are young and very keen.
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Criterion Grill
This beautiful Marco Pierre White restaurant is all chandeliers, mirrors, marble and sparkling mosaics - one breathless wag has compared it to the inside of a Fabergé egg - but its most spectacular feature is the classic French food, which ranges from the delicate tian of Devon crab to roast suckling pig mussel. The daily lunch specials (usually British favourites like shepherd's pie and fish and chips) are a snip at around £13 .
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Electric Brasserie
The name comes from the adjoining Art Deco cinema, but it's possible to believe that it's a comment on the atmosphere here too, as this place never seems to stop buzzing. Whether it's for brunch over the weekend, a hearty lunch or a full dinner, the Electric certainly draws a trendy and wealthy Notting Hill crowd with its British-modern European menu, which includes treats such as crumbed pollock, beetroot and goat's cheese salad and - a personal favourite - lobster and chips (around £28 ).
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Gordon Ramsay at Claridge's
This match made in heaven - London's most celebrated chef in arguably its grandest hotel - will make you weak at the knees. A meal in the gorgeous Art Deco dining room is a special occasion indeed; the Ramsay flavours will have you reeling, from the pressed foie gras marinated in white port and the cannon of salt marsh lamb with crystallised walnuts and cumin all the way to the cheese trolley, whether you choose the one with French, British or Irish number plates. Consider the six-course tasting menu (around £75 ).
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Grafton House
The A-list of Clapham rub shoulders in this very stylish bar/restaurant with marble floors, tropical hardwood tables and curved leather sofas. The menu is modern international - simple but with that extra caress (pumpkin risotto, venison and plum burger, lobster, crab and salmon fishcake) - and brunch is a big deal here, served daily from to . There's live jazz on Sunday evenings.
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Inn the Park
This stunning wooden café and restaurant has cakes and tea, as well as substantial and quality British food. It gets quite busy in the summer, but if you're up for a special dining experience, come here for dinner, when the park is quiet and slightly illuminated.
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Lindsay House
Richard Corrigan is the Irish chef and character behind this superb restaurant, where you'll be won over to 'new Irish cuisine' - no sniggering, it's something to behold. Dishes are simple and hearty but exquisitely executed (like poached ballotine of sea bass with pickled cabbage and oysters).
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Ransome's Dock
Diners flock to this restaurant not because it's trendy or on the dock of a bay (rather a narrow inlet of the Thames) but for fresh and very thoughtfully prepared food: smoked Lincolnshire eel fillets with buckwheat pancakes and creme fraiche, duck breast with apple sauce, red cabbage organic lamb noisettes with roast root vegetables. Weekday two-course lunch is around £15 .
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SE10 Restaurant & Bar
This outwardly scruffy restaurant and wine bar west of the Cutty Sark DLR station tour hides a light, airy and very warm interior of yellows and gold hues. There's a good concentration of fish dishes - though you'd hardly even know the Thames was at the back door - and traditional British dishes (though with only one mean vegetarian option). The desserts are pure comfort food, especially the sticky-toffee pudding. Sundays host both a breakfast (around £4 to around £5 ) and lunch.
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Smiths of Smithfield
After the hubbub of the cavernous bar and cafe on the ground floor, where you can grab breakfast (all day from around £5 ) and lunch, there are two quieter places to dine: the wine rooms on the 1st floor (small plates and sandwiches), brasserie (mains all around £12 and around £13 ) on the 2nd floor and the rooftop dining room (around £17 to around £29 ) above that, which has great views of Smithfield Market and St Paul's Cathedral. The linking factor is a focus on top-quality British meat and organic produce.
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