First time in London

A tiny Marylebone café for an exact flat white, a Swedish pastry and the agreeable illusion of having edited your whole life.

An ale-and-pie pub where the homemade pastry deserves to be treated as dinner rather than bar food.

A gloriously layered music bar where coffee, cocktails and sixty years of songs share the same crowded walls.

Hotels · Earl’s Court · €€€€

Miiro Templeton Garden

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A calm Earl’s Court hotel whose private garden gives its 156 rooms, restaurant and bar unusual breathing space.

A lively Portobello Road pub for a well-kept pint, British comfort food and first-rate market-day people-watching.

Drinks · Kensington · €€€€

The Scarsdale Tavern

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A Kensington local with a real fire, a leafy terrace and the rare confidence to keep the television out of the conversation.

A lively corner pub for a dependable pint, uncomplicated food and the collective theatre of a televised match.