London Guide
Accommodations:
London Edition: highly recommend, beautiful with a great bar and rooms are gorgeous, plus the scent and bathroom toiletries are le labo.
Kettner’s: a Soho House location with great service, cozy rooms, and lively bars/restaurants
Restaurants:
Berners Tavern: in the London Edition hotel in Soho, beautiful large restaurant, great breakfast menu
Farm Girl Café: small cute healthy café in Notting Hill
Granger & Co: restaurant in Notting Hill that is famous for their brunch (beware of insane multiple hour wait) but also has an incredible dinner service
Hoppers: in Soho, Malaysian food that has the Infatuation’s favorite curry (bone marrow) in London. Really good food that you can walk in and put name down (prob ~1hr or so wait)
Deliciously Ella’s: a small and casual restaurant opened by @deliciouslyella that has a ton of great healthy options for breakfast and lunch
Dishoom: hands down best Indian food I have ever had. We ordered a ton of dishes, but highly recommend the Chicken Rubey and the Black Dahl. Everything is amazing!
Rovi: an Australian inspired restaurant with a boozy brunch. The food was great, but the service was sub-par, so unsure I’d recommend
London Bridge Holiday Market: unsure if here only during holidays, but by the water under London Tower when walking towards Borough market has a ton of great food stands
Borough Market: a must do, large outdoor market with insane amount of options
High Tea: this sounds silly, but it is highly recommended to do a high tea while in London. It is basically unlimited tea sandwiches, scones, tea, and mini desserts for a fixed price. I went to Fortnum & Mason but almost every hotel or nice restaurant has this option
The London Edition bar: the bar in my hotel in Soho that was insanely popular and packed every night (closes ~ 1:00AM for nonresidents)
Sketch: really cool place with 5 different restaurants / bars within. Definitely “posh” and pretty sceney and expensive, but totally worth checking out. Great cocktail menu within the Parlour bar. Definitely go to the bathroom here – sounds weird, but it is probably the most famous bathroom in the world with these bright neon diff color lights and then each toilet is in an egg pod
Chiltern Firehouse: sceney bar and restaurant that is beautiful around Christmas time. Outdoor heated restaurant or very cozy bar with holiday décor and a fireplace. Definitely recommend going for at least a drink
Sightseeing:
London Tower
Tower Bridge
London Bridge City
Kensington Palace
Hyde Park – their Central Park, great for walking around or runs
Buckingham Palace
Winter Wonderland – if there around Christmas, unsure of exact dates, this is a Christmas themed carnival in Hyde Park with drinking tents. Can get very busy
Harrods – I did not make it there, but their most popular department store
Fortnum & Mason – in Soho and their second most department store that is food and home good focused. Levels dedicated to teas and jams, tea mugs and kettles, home goods, etc. They have a great high tea with gluten free or dairy free options
Other Recommendations: (places I didn’t go but was recommended)