My all-time favourite place. Whitewashed ex-smokehouse where Fergus Henderson pioneered the resurgent interest in offal dishes. The restaurant is brilliantly unfussy, retaining lots of the smokehouse’s original features, and the food very British, making St. JOHN something of a London institution. The restaurant has a winery and bakery.

I love living in cities with a river and the Thames is so wide! It is one of my favorite things about London.

If you like some nice cool beer, portuguese sweets (the once with yellow custard inside) tasty and affordable sandwiches, good strong coffee and football, at all hours. Max Snack Bar is worth checking out.

Excellent Turkish bakery. I highly recommend their £2 gözleme.

A station, a stop or two away from London sits a shop that is only open once or twice a year – its specialty are books but it also sells things.