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Best Breakfast - Tapas Brindisa
On Fridays and Saturdays you can enjoy a truly mouth-watering Spanish breakfast from 9.00am to 11.00am.
Best Coffee - Monmouth Coffee Company
Monmouth offers a choice of deliciously roasted coffee beans and high quality coffees from all around the world, as well as pastries and cakes to have with your coffee. Sit at the large communal table to enjoy baguettes from Paul, pastries from Villandry, and jams from England Preserves.
Best Hidden Gem - The Table
Trendy new canteen-style café in the award-winning headquarters of architects Allies and Morrison. Proud to be GM-free, almost everything The Table serves is produced in-house daily. The Table won the Time Out’s Cheap Eats Award 2006.
Best Cheap Eats - Café 171
Café 171 serves modern canteen food using fresh seasonal ingredients offering international variety and remarkable value for money in a stylish and relaxed atmosphere.
Best Family Restaurant – Tate Café 2
"Super-efficient waiters soon put you at ease here. Children especially are greeted with much enthusiasm. The kids’ menu is handed out with a pot of wax crayons and art and literacy activities or they can order half-price mains from the adult menu. You can also get breakfast, afternoon tea and, on Tate Modern’s late-closing nights, dinner. It’s all about quality over quantity, always a good idea, especially where kids are concerned." Time Out, 2007
Best Meal with a View – Founders Arms
This pub has unrivalled views over the Thames. Situated on the river next to Tate Modern, this glass-fronted bar has a large patio overlooking St Paul’s and the City. The menu includes classics such as their Young’s Beer-Battered Fish and Chips.
Best International Flavour - Tas Pide
Pide is a traditional Anatolian dish based on a recipe dating back thousands of years. Freshly made dough, resembling the shape of a boat, is baked in a wood fire oven producing a crispy outer crust. A variety of highly flavoured, aromatic fillings provide the topping including a great vegetarian selection.
Best Alfresco Dining - The Real Greek
Al fresco dining with views of the Thames, the Real Greek serves mezedes and souvlaki with Greek wines, beers and ouzo.
Best Steak - Black and Blue
Beef is king in Black and Blue. Prime cuts of beef, cooked to taste and served with fries, salad and a choice of sauces have become the Black & Blue trademark.
Best for ‘Special Occasion’ - Roast
Using the finest of the country’s produce, Roast is dedicated to the best of British cooking. From succulent spit roasts and deeply flavoured puddings cooked over days, through to organically grown salad leaves that have real taste. Roast is also open for breakfast and for Afternoon Tea.
Best Dinner & Theatre Package - Menier Chocolate Factory
The Chocolate Factory will continue to provide Londoners with the best value night out around, with the hugely popular Meal Deal which includes a two course meal and a ticket for the show. The restaurant incorporates all the charm and history of this renovated chocolate factory, using bear brick and timber beams offset with mellow sounds and candlelight.
Best Newcomer – Swan at The Globe
Enjoy a meal in the new stylish brasserie at Shakespeare’s Globe before taking in a play during the Globe’s theatre season which runs from April to October. With wonderful panoramic views over the River Thames, St Paul's Cathedral, and the authentically reconstructed Globe theatre, the Theatre Bar and Brasserie are marvellous settings for lunch, dinner or just drinks.
Best Historic Pub - The George Inn
If you are keen to soak up London's tradition, then head to The George Inn, an institution ever since the 16th century, it is London's only surviving galleried coaching inn spread out over a cobbled courtyard. There is a wide selection of beers including some originals such as Flower's Original, Old Speckled Hen, Caledonian Old and The George's own in-house beer.
Best Bar – The Rake
"Small isn’t the word. Like a licensed Tardis relocated to the streets around Borough Market, The Rake is a miniature haven for lovers of exotic beer – just one tiny room (less than 100sq ft) and a canopied, heated patio adjunct. It’s run by the knowledgeable folks behind the Utobeer stall in the market, and they’re great at giving advice when you’re perplexed by the abundance of choice." Time Out, 2007.
Best Wine Bar - Wine Wharf
Informal and relaxed, with leather sofas, soft lighting and an eclectic selection of music. Their building combines a modern style bar and kitchen with the industrial chic of a Victorian warehouse. Wine Wharf’s creative wine list includes more unusual boutique wines complimented by a menu of wine friendly dishes.
Best Cocktails - Zakudia
Zakudia is a light and airy space with panoramic views of the River wherever you sit serving elegant and refreshing cocktails. Try their ‘Southwark Sling’ – an apple liquor and Champagne delight or the Miss Thames, a Zakudia Special with fresh raspberries and Stolichinaya Rasberi.
