LONDON WEEKEND BREAKS - London Restaurants

London is crammed full of restaurants offering every cuisine, ambience, style and price bracket of edible delights from fast food chains to a la carte restaurants of the highest order.

If you are in a rush and trying to see and do as much as you can during the day, then there are numerous cafes and bars serving all kinds of traditional and ethnic menus. These bars know that you want to get in and out quickly and they are fast and efficient. The food is however generally good and priced very fairly.

When it comes to the evening however, you may want to extend your budget somewhat and London gives you a near limitless scope of culinary diversity and quality from which to choose. Those who visit London on weekend breaks often assume that city restaurants are expensive but, with the occasional exception, they are wrong.

London restaurant prices

Dinning in London not only gives you access to every kind and style of cuisine imaginable, but it does so at very affordable prices. The reason for this is simple, there are over 5,570 different restaurants in London and all of them want your custom. Restaurants that overprice their menus, or serve sub-standard food soon disappear, and this means that you are almost guaranteed a good evening dinning experience so long as you eat in the main city and suburb zones.

The two areas where price may not necessarily represent quality are in the central business zone - during the day (where company executives pay on bottomless accounts), and some of the restaurants in the busy evening theatre districts. In these areas demand means that you may be happy simply to find a vacant table with the bill being latter most on your mind.

Even so, few London restaurants are poor, even fewer will "fleece" their customers and most offer dinning experiences that few other cities can equal. Eating in a city restaurant is one of the big pleasures of a London weekend breaks experience.

London restaurant districts

Below is a list of the various districts in and around London where you can usually find good restaurants, serving good food.

Aldgate, Balham, Battersea, Bayswater, Belgravia, Bermondsey, Blackfriars, Bloomsbury, Borough Market, Brick Lane Brixton, Camberwell, Camden, Chelsea, Chiswick, The City, Clapham, Clerkenwell, Covent Garden, Croydon, Fitzrovia, Fulham, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith, Holborn, Hoxton, Islington, Kensington, Kentish Town, Kilburn, Kings Cross, Knightsbridge, Ladbroke Grove, Leicester Square, Liverpool Street, London Bridge, Marylebone, Mayfair, Notting Hill, O2, Paddington, Putney, Riverside, Shepherds Bush, Shoreditch, Soho, Southwark , St Pancras, Tottenham Court Road, Waterloo, Wembley, West End, Westbourne Grove, Wimbledon.