Adam's London guidebook

Adam And Christel
Adam And Christel
Adam's London guidebook

Shopping

Probably the best food market in London. Open Wednesday to Saturday. Best buys are at Ginger Pig, Ted's Veg, Sussex Fish, Bread Ahead, Monmouth Coffee, Normandie a Londres and Neal's Yard.
1617 locals recommend
Borough Market
Borough High Street
1617 locals recommend
Probably the best food market in London. Open Wednesday to Saturday. Best buys are at Ginger Pig, Ted's Veg, Sussex Fish, Bread Ahead, Monmouth Coffee, Normandie a Londres and Neal's Yard.
Very cool market of pop up food stalls and bars.
99 locals recommend
40 Maltby Street
40 Maltby St
99 locals recommend
Very cool market of pop up food stalls and bars.
Cool antiques and flea market at weekends - part of the village London feel
65 locals recommend
Bermondsey Antique Market
11 Bermondsey Square
65 locals recommend
Cool antiques and flea market at weekends - part of the village London feel
Cool covered market with lots of bars and restaurants as well. Worth a visit at the weekend.
696 locals recommend
Old Spitalfields Market
16 Commercial St
696 locals recommend
Cool covered market with lots of bars and restaurants as well. Worth a visit at the weekend.
While you're here, do check out one of the many authentic Indian restaurants. There are too many to mention here but check trip advisor and notfortourists.com. You should also check out the Old Truman Brewery website for pop up bars, festivals, events and some of the top brand sample sales that happen every weekend.
825 locals recommend
Brick Lane Sunday Market
Brick Lane
825 locals recommend
While you're here, do check out one of the many authentic Indian restaurants. There are too many to mention here but check trip advisor and notfortourists.com. You should also check out the Old Truman Brewery website for pop up bars, festivals, events and some of the top brand sample sales that happen every weekend.
Market with all kinds of clothes and oddities.
61 locals recommend
Petticoat Lane Market
119-121 Middlesex St
61 locals recommend
Market with all kinds of clothes and oddities.
Fantastic flower market.
1660 locals recommend
Columbia Road Flower Market
Columbia Road
1660 locals recommend
Fantastic flower market.

Sightseeing

Visit Sir Francis Drake's ship that defeated the Spanish Armada 500 years ago.
51 locals recommend
Golden Hinde
Cathedral Street
51 locals recommend
Visit Sir Francis Drake's ship that defeated the Spanish Armada 500 years ago.
The original castle of medieval kings and queens. Book online but think about the www.londonpass.com if you really want to do the tourist thing as it should save money on hideously overpriced tickets
1372 locals recommend
Tower of London
1372 locals recommend
The original castle of medieval kings and queens. Book online but think about the www.londonpass.com if you really want to do the tourist thing as it should save money on hideously overpriced tickets
Very chic village feel filled with great bars, cafe's and restaurants.
263 locals recommend
Bermondsey Street
Bermondsey Street
263 locals recommend
Very chic village feel filled with great bars, cafe's and restaurants.
Walk from the Tate Modern to St Pauls
129 locals recommend
Millennium Bridge
129 locals recommend
Walk from the Tate Modern to St Pauls
This will be on anyone's to do list for sightseeing.
845 locals recommend
St. Paul's Cathedral
845 locals recommend
This will be on anyone's to do list for sightseeing.
Cool area with restaurants and pop up bars and events, view over the Tower of London and right next to "The Onion" City Hall. Also has a great pop-up culture in the summer with bars and stalls.
38 locals recommend
More London Riverside
More London Place
38 locals recommend
Cool area with restaurants and pop up bars and events, view over the Tower of London and right next to "The Onion" City Hall. Also has a great pop-up culture in the summer with bars and stalls.
Cool boutiques in this 14th century beautiful ornate market, right in the heart of the financial district. Worth a look.
47 locals recommend
Leadenhall Market
Gracechurch Street
47 locals recommend
Cool boutiques in this 14th century beautiful ornate market, right in the heart of the financial district. Worth a look.
Commemorates the start of the great fire of London
107 locals recommend
The Monument to the Great Fire of London
Fish Street Hill
107 locals recommend
Commemorates the start of the great fire of London
A tourists must see.
2099 locals recommend
London Eye
2099 locals recommend
A tourists must see.
If you've watched the Da Vinci Code you'll recognise the church. Not often open and Temple is a beautiful quiet part of London with lots of legal chambers, secret gardens and alleys. Worth a stroll.
9 locals recommend
Temple Church
9 locals recommend
If you've watched the Da Vinci Code you'll recognise the church. Not often open and Temple is a beautiful quiet part of London with lots of legal chambers, secret gardens and alleys. Worth a stroll.
7th Century cathedral.
33 locals recommend
Southwark Cathedral
London Bridge
33 locals recommend
7th Century cathedral.

Arts & Culture

Reconstructed like the original theatre and has year round plays that you can book.
449 locals recommend
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre
21 New Globe Walk
449 locals recommend
Reconstructed like the original theatre and has year round plays that you can book.
The famous museum.
2008 locals recommend
Tate Modern
Bankside
2008 locals recommend
The famous museum.
Very cool local museum. Travel over to Knightsbridge for the big museums.
330 locals recommend
The Design Museum
224-238 Kensington High St
330 locals recommend
Very cool local museum. Travel over to Knightsbridge for the big museums.
Cool small museum of the buliding that used to be a prison - one of many in London Bridge in Elizabethen times.
43 locals recommend
Clink Prison Museum
1 Clink St
43 locals recommend
Cool small museum of the buliding that used to be a prison - one of many in London Bridge in Elizabethen times.
A very random experience
48 locals recommend
The Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret
9a St Thomas St
48 locals recommend
A very random experience
Random experience.
89 locals recommend
Fashion and Textile Museum
83 Bermondsey St
89 locals recommend
Random experience.
Nice small contemporary gallery
11 locals recommend
Jerwood Space
171 Union St
11 locals recommend
Nice small contemporary gallery
Dedicated to all the great wars and situated inside a beautiful park in South London - 15 minutes walk from the apartment.
461 locals recommend
Imperial War Museums
Lambeth Road
461 locals recommend
Dedicated to all the great wars and situated inside a beautiful park in South London - 15 minutes walk from the apartment.
A very interesting looking into the local area in the Middle Ages and how cruel it was to live in London Bridge.
43 locals recommend
Clink Prison Museum
1 Clink St
43 locals recommend
A very interesting looking into the local area in the Middle Ages and how cruel it was to live in London Bridge.
Very local and interesting, new exhibition space, focused on medicine and science.
Science Gallery London
Great Maze Pond
Very local and interesting, new exhibition space, focused on medicine and science.

Drinks & Nightlife

The world famous nightclub is a short walk away - but far enough to hear nothing.
197 locals recommend
Ministry of Sound
103 Gaunt St
197 locals recommend
The world famous nightclub is a short walk away - but far enough to hear nothing.
On the 42nd floor of the new Heron Tower you have Sushi Samba for 24 hour drinking and eating - London's beautiful people can be found there on Fridays and Saturdays. Beware, its not cheap.
237 locals recommend
SUSHISAMBA London
Bishopsgate
237 locals recommend
On the 42nd floor of the new Heron Tower you have Sushi Samba for 24 hour drinking and eating - London's beautiful people can be found there on Fridays and Saturdays. Beware, its not cheap.
Watch the English after work fill this pub with cool covered outdoor area where beer is served from an old VW van.
7 locals recommend
The Sheaf
24a Southwark St
7 locals recommend
Watch the English after work fill this pub with cool covered outdoor area where beer is served from an old VW van.
16th Century Coaching Inn (where Dickens and Shakespeare stayed). Authentic building with massive outdoor courtyard filled with the English drinking and socialising after work on weekdays
45 locals recommend
George
Borough High Street
45 locals recommend
16th Century Coaching Inn (where Dickens and Shakespeare stayed). Authentic building with massive outdoor courtyard filled with the English drinking and socialising after work on weekdays
A very cool rooftop bar on the ME hotel. Fantasic views and seating inside and out. Highly recommended.
30 locals recommend
Radio Rooftop
336-337 Strand
30 locals recommend
A very cool rooftop bar on the ME hotel. Fantasic views and seating inside and out. Highly recommended.
Great rooftop bar along with great shopping and another great Jamie Oliver restaurant.
86 locals recommend
One New Change
New Change
86 locals recommend
Great rooftop bar along with great shopping and another great Jamie Oliver restaurant.
Historic pub, well hidden away in Redcross street. Curiously opposite a historic mass grave for the poor executed criminals and local prostitutes.
36 locals recommend
The Bootlegger
25-26 Lime St
36 locals recommend
Historic pub, well hidden away in Redcross street. Curiously opposite a historic mass grave for the poor executed criminals and local prostitutes.
Stunning views over London in this restaurant, which serves breakfast lunch and dinner. Or sit in the fantastic cocktail bar. Really a must to visit. You can avoid the queues without a reservation by just walking straight in but don't wear sneakers.
124 locals recommend
Aqua Shard
31 St Thomas St
124 locals recommend
Stunning views over London in this restaurant, which serves breakfast lunch and dinner. Or sit in the fantastic cocktail bar. Really a must to visit. You can avoid the queues without a reservation by just walking straight in but don't wear sneakers.
Beautiful riverside cocktail bar and restaurant with great views.
40 locals recommend
Skylon
40 locals recommend
Beautiful riverside cocktail bar and restaurant with great views.
This cocktail bar and restaurant is on the eighth floor of this luxury riverside apartment block - great views.
106 locals recommend
OXO Tower Restaurant
Barge House Street
106 locals recommend
This cocktail bar and restaurant is on the eighth floor of this luxury riverside apartment block - great views.
Nicely renovated pub with garden and full of local young Bermondseyites
92 locals recommend
The Woolpack
98 Bermondsey St
92 locals recommend
Nicely renovated pub with garden and full of local young Bermondseyites
16th century bar. Historic, touristic, worth a visit to say you've been but average food.
12 locals recommend
Anchor Bankside
34 Park St
12 locals recommend
16th century bar. Historic, touristic, worth a visit to say you've been but average food.
Cool bar at the theatre.
6 locals recommend
The Cut Bar and Restaurant, Young Vic
66 The Cut
6 locals recommend
Cool bar at the theatre.
Plenty of cool kids, cool bars and cool restaurants here. Take your pick in the whole Shoreditch area.
221 locals recommend
Hoxton Square
Hoxton Square
221 locals recommend
Plenty of cool kids, cool bars and cool restaurants here. Take your pick in the whole Shoreditch area.
Very cool speakeasy
10 locals recommend
Cecil's
8 Holyrood Street
10 locals recommend
Very cool speakeasy
Brilliant authentic latino bar with great mojito and latin music and dancing. Hideously busy, especially in the summer.
51 locals recommend
Cubana
48 Lower Marsh
51 locals recommend
Brilliant authentic latino bar with great mojito and latin music and dancing. Hideously busy, especially in the summer.
Authentic Bavarian Beer Kellar.
8 locals recommend
Katzenjammers
24 Southwark St
8 locals recommend
Authentic Bavarian Beer Kellar.
Uber cheap, slightly pikey 70s style council estate pub, absolutely teeming with medical students during the week for cheap beer and inde bands playing upstairs.
11 locals recommend
The Miller
96 Snowsfields
11 locals recommend
Uber cheap, slightly pikey 70s style council estate pub, absolutely teeming with medical students during the week for cheap beer and inde bands playing upstairs.
Where all the cool kids hang out.
14 locals recommend
93 Feet East
150 Brick Ln
14 locals recommend
Where all the cool kids hang out.
Nicely revamped very English pub. Fair priced cocktails and slightly better quality pub menu. Good young crowd - god bless the smoking ban.
The Leather Exchange
15 Leathermarket St
Nicely revamped very English pub. Fair priced cocktails and slightly better quality pub menu. Good young crowd - god bless the smoking ban.
Very classy, always busy with the beautiful people. Book in advance if yu're going to eat.
57 locals recommend
Antico Restaurant
214 Bermondsey Street
57 locals recommend
Very classy, always busy with the beautiful people. Book in advance if yu're going to eat.
Funky pub. Decent prices, good crowd - Bermondsey Street a great village feel.
128 locals recommend
The Garrison Public House
99 Bermondsey St
128 locals recommend
Funky pub. Decent prices, good crowd - Bermondsey Street a great village feel.
Flat Iron Square is really the buzzing new place in Borough. It's under railway arches, has pop up food trucks, indoor canteen with half a dozen food counters, a pancake house and the new O'Meara cocktail back and intimate concert venue, owned and managed by Ben Lovett of Mumford & Sons - licenced til 6am at weekends and expect all kinds of last minute concerts this summer.
60 locals recommend
Flea at Flat Iron Square
45 Southwark St
60 locals recommend
Flat Iron Square is really the buzzing new place in Borough. It's under railway arches, has pop up food trucks, indoor canteen with half a dozen food counters, a pancake house and the new O'Meara cocktail back and intimate concert venue, owned and managed by Ben Lovett of Mumford & Sons - licenced til 6am at weekends and expect all kinds of last minute concerts this summer.
Very cool way to turn a deconsecrated church into a night spot for live music and drinks. Just a few minutes from the apartment.
Amazing Grace London
Very cool way to turn a deconsecrated church into a night spot for live music and drinks. Just a few minutes from the apartment.
Great mix of bars, restaurants and a nightclub.
60 locals recommend
Flea at Flat Iron Square
45 Southwark St
60 locals recommend
Great mix of bars, restaurants and a nightclub.

Food Scene

Get a great traditional English breakfast or lunch in this posh restaurant in the heart of Borough Market.
30 locals recommend
Roast
Stoney Street
30 locals recommend
Get a great traditional English breakfast or lunch in this posh restaurant in the heart of Borough Market.
Great bar and restaurant owned by Gordon Ramsey and frequented by David Beckham when in London. Cocktails excellent and high class Italian menu. There's a great cocktail bar in the basement as well.
32 locals recommend
Union Street Café by Gordon Ramsay
47-51 Great Suffolk Street
32 locals recommend
Great bar and restaurant owned by Gordon Ramsey and frequented by David Beckham when in London. Cocktails excellent and high class Italian menu. There's a great cocktail bar in the basement as well.
Cool basement bar and steak restaurant
18 locals recommend
Hixter
16 Great Guildford St
18 locals recommend
Cool basement bar and steak restaurant
Fantastic Malaysian restaurant - great menu and decoration
32 locals recommend
Champor-Champor
62-64 Weston St
32 locals recommend
Fantastic Malaysian restaurant - great menu and decoration
Great French restaurant with posh riverside location.
63 locals recommend
Le Pont de la Tour
36D Shad Thames
63 locals recommend
Great French restaurant with posh riverside location.
Authentic Spanish food, always busy, right on the corner of Borough Market.
31 locals recommend
Tapas Brindisa London Bridge
18-20 Southwark St
31 locals recommend
Authentic Spanish food, always busy, right on the corner of Borough Market.
This is one of London's original pie & mash shops.
40 locals recommend
M.Manze
87 Tower Bridge Rd
40 locals recommend
This is one of London's original pie & mash shops.
Really great food and atmosphere.
136 locals recommend
Village East
171-173 Bermondsey St
136 locals recommend
Really great food and atmosphere.
Great tapas place and Spanish restaurant in Bermondsey Street.
160 locals recommend
José
104 Bermondsey St
160 locals recommend
Great tapas place and Spanish restaurant in Bermondsey Street.
Great place - book early.
52 locals recommend
Zucca
184 Bermondsey Street
52 locals recommend
Great place - book early.
Great Asian restaurant in a hidden walk of three or four very busy bars and restaurants. Part of a chain but good quality food.
6 locals recommend
Thai Silk
94-95 Isabella St
6 locals recommend
Great Asian restaurant in a hidden walk of three or four very busy bars and restaurants. Part of a chain but good quality food.
Great place, good sushi. Overpriced.
Feng Sushi
13 Stoney Street
Great place, good sushi. Overpriced.
Famous Argentinian steak restaurants but this one is in old Bank of England gold vaults. Cool idea. Posh restaurant.
Gaucho City
1 Bell Inn Yard
Famous Argentinian steak restaurants but this one is in old Bank of England gold vaults. Cool idea. Posh restaurant.
Great for weekend English and American style brunches.
12 locals recommend
Joe's Kitchen
5-7 Marshalsea Rd
12 locals recommend
Great for weekend English and American style brunches.
Great noodle bar chain that always has a 50% sale on its fresh sushi at 7.30pm every evening if you can't be bothered to cook or go out. There's also a great Marks & Spencers food market opposite to pick up some good quality wine and desserts.
itsu
65 Southwark St
Great noodle bar chain that always has a 50% sale on its fresh sushi at 7.30pm every evening if you can't be bothered to cook or go out. There's also a great Marks & Spencers food market opposite to pick up some good quality wine and desserts.
Restaurant and bar that is decorated like an old school gymnasium. Food selected from Borough Market but bit pricey.
31 locals recommend
Tanner & Co
50 Bermondsey St
31 locals recommend
Restaurant and bar that is decorated like an old school gymnasium. Food selected from Borough Market but bit pricey.
Chain of noodle bars, this one is huge and built under a railway arch. Very busy but really good food and not overpriced.
Wagamama Clink Street
1 Clink Street
Chain of noodle bars, this one is huge and built under a railway arch. Very busy but really good food and not overpriced.
Beautiful location, atrium, champagne and oyster bar and Sauterelle restaurant on the first floor. Do take a look at all the shops like Bulgari, Hermes, Montblanc and Tiffanys.
9 locals recommend
Royal Exchange Jewellers
29A Threadneedle St
9 locals recommend
Beautiful location, atrium, champagne and oyster bar and Sauterelle restaurant on the first floor. Do take a look at all the shops like Bulgari, Hermes, Montblanc and Tiffanys.
Posh coffee shop attracting the Bermondsey Streeters
85 locals recommend
Casse-Croûte
109 Bermondsey St
85 locals recommend
Posh coffee shop attracting the Bermondsey Streeters
Great high quality French restaurant by Liverpool Street Station. Menu is fantastic and built in a de-consecrated church.
50 locals recommend
Galvin La Chapelle
35 Spital Square
50 locals recommend
Great high quality French restaurant by Liverpool Street Station. Menu is fantastic and built in a de-consecrated church.
Hip and trendy cafe serving typical English Breakfasts. Worth a visit as close to Borough Market but always a queue outside after 9am on weekends with all London's hungover twentysomethings.
49 locals recommend
The Breakfast Club London Bridge
11 Southwark Street
49 locals recommend
Hip and trendy cafe serving typical English Breakfasts. Worth a visit as close to Borough Market but always a queue outside after 9am on weekends with all London's hungover twentysomethings.
This is new and a really good mix of breakfast and brunch, workspace for all day coffee, great lunch and dinner menu with tapas and other great plates and an excellent cocktail bar. This isn't really known yet but one of the new buzzing places in the area.
22 locals recommend
Caravan
30 Great Guildford St
22 locals recommend
This is new and a really good mix of breakfast and brunch, workspace for all day coffee, great lunch and dinner menu with tapas and other great plates and an excellent cocktail bar. This isn't really known yet but one of the new buzzing places in the area.
This place is really random because its a morning cafe where you can buy a full English breakfast and in the afternoon and evening turns into a Lebanese shisha bar. Brilliant ix.
The Island Cafe
Union Street
This place is really random because its a morning cafe where you can buy a full English breakfast and in the afternoon and evening turns into a Lebanese shisha bar. Brilliant ix.

Entertainment & Activities

Home to the British Film Institute, you can also see the latest movies in 3D at the Imax
109 locals recommend
BFI Southbank
0 Belvedere Rd
109 locals recommend
Home to the British Film Institute, you can also see the latest movies in 3D at the Imax
A very very cool area, particularly in summer with lots of arts, festivals, pop up bars and food stalls. Also great Christmas market all along the Thames.
436 locals recommend
Southbank Centre
436 locals recommend
A very very cool area, particularly in summer with lots of arts, festivals, pop up bars and food stalls. Also great Christmas market all along the Thames.
Indoor skatepark with a difference. Underneath Waterloo Station, it has music, arts and bars and all kinds of cool stuff. You'll recognise the place as Skyfall was filmed there (new MI6 headquarters)
House of Vans London
228-232 Station Approach Rd
Indoor skatepark with a difference. Underneath Waterloo Station, it has music, arts and bars and all kinds of cool stuff. You'll recognise the place as Skyfall was filmed there (new MI6 headquarters)
Great location and experience. Book tickets online in advance.
217 locals recommend
Somerset House
Strand
217 locals recommend
Great location and experience. Book tickets online in advance.

Essentials

Open from 7/11 seven days a week and two minutes walk from the apartment.
1048 locals recommend
TESCO Express
275-277 Battersea Park Rd
1048 locals recommend
Open from 7/11 seven days a week and two minutes walk from the apartment.
Open from 7am to 11 seven days a week. Very well stocked for food, drink, toiletries and all you'll possibly need.
328 locals recommend
Sainsbury's Local
1-3 Bryanston St
328 locals recommend
Open from 7am to 11 seven days a week. Very well stocked for food, drink, toiletries and all you'll possibly need.
Top hospital with full accident and emergency unit 24/7 if necessary and less than five minutes walk.
18 locals recommend
Guy's Hospital
Great Maze Pond
18 locals recommend
Top hospital with full accident and emergency unit 24/7 if necessary and less than five minutes walk.
Cracking English cheeses. If you like strong, buy Stinking Bishop - but please make sure you don't leave it too long in my fridge.
18 locals recommend
Neal's Yard Dairy
8 Park St
18 locals recommend
Cracking English cheeses. If you like strong, buy Stinking Bishop - but please make sure you don't leave it too long in my fridge.