Here are the restaurants and pubs we visited during our trip to London in 2018. Before the trip Becky and I spent some significant time researching the pubs, cafes and restaurants of both London and Paris. We marked good places on a Google map that we would later download to our phones to guide us in these cities. We also marked museums and other attractions and then selected nearby places to eat and put them on the map. It all really helped.
Down the street from our hotel.
Nice lunch. Cod and salmon cake, sweet pototo fritters with beet salad.
Had a Camden Yard Ale on tap.
Note: we liked this place enough to go there again a year later in 2019.
We had dinner here at another nearby restaurant that specialized in Spanish home cooking and particularly tapas. We ate carbaciho pork, choza and pate dipillio among other things.
Spanish white wine too. The Spanish people running the restaurant were very nice and gave us extra bread with the dip.
Of course our Spanish waitress knew we were visiting Americans and she said to us "I want to come to America some day. I love New York. I know it very well. I've seen the movies."
Cask beer and football... a classic pub for some after dinner drinks.
Had a Band of Brewers IPA cask from Greene King Brewery. Very nice and at room temperature like the English like it.
Across the street from our hotel so it was hard not to stop by
Had some Fuller's ESB cask and some London Pride cask.
Italian restaurant with some nice pizza for lunch after a bus tour that took us to Buckingham Palace, Fleet Street, St. Paul Cathedral, the and a bunch of Royal stuff.
After lunch we went over to the National Gallery by subway... mind the gap.
Had a Kingfisher Ultra Indian Lager
It was a nice easy walk from our hotel too.
This was a Fuller's Pub so naturally I had a cask pint of Fuller's London Pride bitter.
I also had a Pumphouse Pale Ale Cask from Sambrook's Brewery, a London micro-brewery.
Probably our only disappointment eating in London. We stopped for lunch between museums. It was OK but not great like everything else have had up to that point.
Lots of running around to museums, etc. Riding the subway. The British Museum. Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, London Bridge, etc.
Pub food in London. Fish & Chips, Shepherd's Pie, Pudding
Wonderful dinner just a few blocks from our hotel.
We had a wonderful lunch of baguette sandwiches and their fantastic carrot cake.
The restaurant also had amazing decor.
On Fleet Street and part of a Taste of London Tour.
It was our only meal with a tour group and probably not the best but it was interesting.
Steak pie, fish & chips, dessert with liquid ice cream
Had some Greene King House Bitter Ale cask pint from Greene King Brewery.
Afterwards we had a long bus trip through Friday London rush hour traffic.
Stanhope Arms
Our last night for an English pub so after our boat tour on the Thames we went back to the pub across the street from our hotel for a nightcap. Tomorrow would be a busy day taking the chunnel train to Paris.
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