You could call me biased, given this is the 3rd Highbury restaurant in my list, but if you're doing so then you've clearly never tried the Biang Biang Noodles at this unassuming little BYOB gem

I rediscovered this place recently having not been for years and now I keep returning. The geological galleries are my favourites.

A gallery with a great program of young emerging artists

Fortitude Bakehouse, a craft bakery, hidden away on a quiet mews in Bloomsbury. 

The V and A houses a public collection of prints and drawings of every kind imagineable from old master drawings to photographs, playing cards, fashion plates and wallpapers. You have to select what you want to see from the collection http://collections.vam.ac.uk/and book in advance. The behind-the-scenes route up to the study room of v and a is a treat alone (pictured)