Close to Theatreland in the heart of Covent Garden, Balthazar is the London version of a New York institution which is, in turn, an interpretation of a French bistro /brasserie! Breakfast at Balthazar isn’t the cheapest you’ll find but chef Robert Reid has created an interesting, mouth-watering breakfast menu including the classic full English with … Continued

Just off Oxford Street and a few minutes’ walk from the Rathbone, Benugo is a trendy, eco-aware chain of cafés serving a great choice of create-your-own wraps, sandwiches and salads as well as freshly-baked pastries, muffins, yoghurt pots, fruit salads, muesli and classic bagels with smoked salmon, eggs and bacon and cheese. There’s a great … Continued

The Riding House Café is a five minute walk from Oxford Circus and they serve comfort food and breakfast classics including kedgeree, what they call a ‘full and proper’ English breakfast, eggs any which way you like and of course light and fluffy buttermilk pancakes. You can even top up with a portion of chips! … Continued

The Breakfast Club is fast-becoming one of the most popular places for breakfast in London and if you name a place to eat after one of the most popular films of the 80s, it better be good – and it is! ‘Decorated’ with holiday selfies, notes scribbled on the walls and postcards from all over … Continued

Quo Vadis is a classically trendy restaurant in the heart of Soho. It has a long and frantic history; it was once owned by artist Damien Hirst and the kitchen was presided over by enfant terrible of British cooking Marco Pierre White but today, chef Jeremy Lee’s breakfast menu is simple, classic and delicious. The … Continued

The good people at bookatable.co.uk voted the Heliot Steak House as the best steak restaurant in London for a very good reason. The steaks are superb. The restaurant overlooks the main gaming floor of the Hippodrome Casino in Leicester Square and boasts 6-8 week-aged USDA Prime beef with cuts including Rump, NY Strip, Fillet, Rib-Eye … Continued

CUT London is legendary American restaurateur Wolfgang Puck’s first foray into Europe and while it came with a massive dose of hype, especially as it’s located in one of London’s swankiest new hotels called, rather uninspiringly 45 Park Lane. Original Damien Hirst art adorns the walls and beautifully high-cheekboned staff adorn the marble floors (seemingly chosen … Continued

STK at the ME hotel serves top-notch USDA Prime beef but it’s not all about acronyms here. Think Ibiza-style neon, a clubby feel and some of the juiciest steaks in London. Oddly for a restaurant, it describes itself as ‘female-friendly’ and their website proclaims that STK is ‘not your Daddy’s steakhouse’ (we’re not entirely sure … Continued

We can’t claim to have written this line of outstanding copy describing Shaka Zulu in Camden but it’s perfect: take your tastebuds on safari. Shaka Zulu is a South African ‘braai’ (literally ‘to grill’) restaurant – one of London’s very best and most certainly its largest – and as well as a fine selection of … Continued

Even though Gaucho is a chain covering most of London, Charlotte Street’s spiral staircase leads you down to a cowhide-covered slice of contemporary Argentina from where you can indulge in 35 day wet-aged cuts of beef you’ve never heard of but when you taste them for the first time, you’ll remember them forever. The Lomo (fillet), … Continued