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Great Okonomiyaki with bacon!
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Tenshi
61 Upper Street
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Great Okonomiyaki with bacon!
Delicious cherry danish pastry!
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Euphorium Bakery
26A Chapel Market
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Delicious cherry danish pastry!
Best Lemon Mascarpone tart in the whole wide world!
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Ottolenghi Islington
287 Upper St
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Best Lemon Mascarpone tart in the whole wide world!
Delicious croque monsieur to take away or madame to eat in!
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Le Péché Mignon
6 Ronalds Rd
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Delicious croque monsieur to take away or madame to eat in!
The best Indian in the hood. Try the Pani Puri.
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Delhi Grill
21 Chapel Market
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The best Indian in the hood. Try the Pani Puri.
Every Sunday 10am-2pm, local and organic produce. I visit weekly! Food stalls as well.
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Islington Farmers' Market
Chapel Market
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Every Sunday 10am-2pm, local and organic produce. I visit weekly! Food stalls as well.
Eat everything and make a reservation. Probably the other way around!
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Afghan Kitchen
35 Islington Grn
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Eat everything and make a reservation. Probably the other way around!
Great brunch but always long queues. Go early! Or make a reservation for dinner.
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Caravan King's Cross
1 Granary Square
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Great brunch but always long queues. Go early! Or make a reservation for dinner.
Best burger in London hands down. Always get the special and the sides.
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Honest Burgers - King's Cross
251 Pentonville Rd
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Best burger in London hands down. Always get the special and the sides.
Everything is great! Make a reservation.
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Caravan Exmouth Market | Takeaway & Coffee
11-13 Exmouth Market
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Everything is great! Make a reservation.
Delicious Indian but usually there's a queue. Try the bacon naan and a chai.
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Dishoom King's Cross
5 Stable St
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Delicious Indian but usually there's a queue. Try the bacon naan and a chai.
Delicious Spanish tapas style restaurant.
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Westerns Laundry
34 Drayton Park
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Delicious Spanish tapas style restaurant.
Good Japanese restaurant.
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Hana London
150A Seven Sisters Rd
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Good Japanese restaurant.
Great vegetarian/vegan place with delicious specials daily.
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EZ & Moss
183 Holloway Rd
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Great vegetarian/vegan place with delicious specials daily.
Great Vietnamese!
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OA Comtam
232 Holloway Rd
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Great Vietnamese!
Great Sichuan food if you like spice! Eat while you look at the Arsenal Emirates Stadium.
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Xi'an Impression London
117 Benwell Rd
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Great Sichuan food if you like spice! Eat while you look at the Arsenal Emirates Stadium.
Great value café. Unfussy, good food and coffee in a lovely original building.
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Alpino Cafe
1 Chapel Market
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Great value café. Unfussy, good food and coffee in a lovely original building.
Good neapolitan style pizza. All the staff are Italian.
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Franco Manca
52 Broadway Market
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Good neapolitan style pizza. All the staff are Italian.
Quick, cheap and delicious. I always get the pepperoni 🍕
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Pizza Union
246-250 Pentonville Rd
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Quick, cheap and delicious. I always get the pepperoni 🍕
Vegan ice cream and sorbets. It's all good!
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Ruby Violet
3 Wharf Road
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Vegan ice cream and sorbets. It's all good!
Good and affordable steak house. The service is top notch.
Flat Iron Kings Cross
Good and affordable steak house. The service is top notch.
Delicious Malaysian joint. It's very small. And rather busy. So best for take out. The beef rendang is hella spicy. You've been warned.
Hawker's Kitchen
Delicious Malaysian joint. It's very small. And rather busy. So best for take out. The beef rendang is hella spicy. You've been warned.
My favourite fish and chips place in London. Get the normal size cod because the large one is way too big.
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Masters Superfish
191 Waterloo Rd
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My favourite fish and chips place in London. Get the normal size cod because the large one is way too big.
Delicious, fresh and value for money sushi.
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Sushi Show
28 Camden Psge
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Delicious, fresh and value for money sushi.
Book a table, try the pizza and the seafood pasta.
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Santorè
59-61 Exmouth Market
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Book a table, try the pizza and the seafood pasta.
My local vietnamese restaurant. Quite authentic. Better make a reservation.
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Sen Viet
119 King's Cross Rd
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My local vietnamese restaurant. Quite authentic. Better make a reservation.
My favourite Korean restaurant. Try the BBQ. Better make a reservation.
Masigo
29 Chapel Market
My favourite Korean restaurant. Try the BBQ. Better make a reservation.
Where I get my Greek fix in London.
Holy Pitta
Where I get my Greek fix in London.
Occasional treat of Philipino dessert.
Mamasons Dirty Ice cream
91 Kentish Town Rd
Occasional treat of Philipino dessert.
Cinnamon and cardamon buns and coffee. It's quite small so if you don't get a seat just grab them to go.
Fabrique
Cinnamon and cardamon buns and coffee. It's quite small so if you don't get a seat just grab them to go.
One is already too big for one person. Don't get fooled to buy extras/sides. Buy a couple/different ones to share.
Schnitzel Heaven
One is already too big for one person. Don't get fooled to buy extras/sides. Buy a couple/different ones to share.
Try the Khachapuri.
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Little Georgia Hackney
87 Goldsmiths Row
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Try the Khachapuri.
Yummy wings!
That Wing Place
Yummy wings!
Hole in the wall takeaway joint, card only payment. Delicious, freshly made and value for money.
JOKA Sushi
286 Holloway Road
Hole in the wall takeaway joint, card only payment. Delicious, freshly made and value for money.

Parks & Nature

A farm in the city! Except the animals, actually they have an amazing cafe, which serves lunch, refreshments and cakes!
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Freightliners Farm
Sheringham Road
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A farm in the city! Except the animals, actually they have an amazing cafe, which serves lunch, refreshments and cakes!
At 1.5 miles long and about a mile wide, Hyde Park is one of the largest of London's Royal Parks. The Joy of Life fountain is a popular spot for splashing around in when the weather heats up.
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Hyde Park
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At 1.5 miles long and about a mile wide, Hyde Park is one of the largest of London's Royal Parks. The Joy of Life fountain is a popular spot for splashing around in when the weather heats up.
Regent's Park has several playgrounds, but the most interesting is at Hanover Gate where, in 2010, a new timber treehouse area for older kids was built within a large sandpit next to the boating lake.
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Parque Regent
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Regent's Park has several playgrounds, but the most interesting is at Hanover Gate where, in 2010, a new timber treehouse area for older kids was built within a large sandpit next to the boating lake.

Drinks & Nightlife

Hipster pub with loud clientele and great pizza.
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The Three Johns
73 White Lion Street
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Hipster pub with loud clientele and great pizza.
BIg good looking pub with delicious Sunday Roast.
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Out Of The Attic Antiques
195 Blackstock Rd
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BIg good looking pub with delicious Sunday Roast.
Drink by the river! Good food as well.
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Narrowboat
119 St Peter's St
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Drink by the river! Good food as well.
The bar at the top is often quieter than all the others. View of the stage from the rail on the second level is great
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Scala
275 Pentonville Rd
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The bar at the top is often quieter than all the others. View of the stage from the rail on the second level is great
Good venue, great views due to multiple levels. Gets a little warm however.
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KOKO
1a Camden High St
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Good venue, great views due to multiple levels. Gets a little warm however.
Nice pub by the canal. They do food, too.
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Narrowboat
119 St Peter's St
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Nice pub by the canal. They do food, too.

Arts & Culture

Selected galleries of the British Museum are open until 8.30pm every Friday evening, augmented by tours, special events and food and drink.
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Museo Británico
Great Russell Street
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Selected galleries of the British Museum are open until 8.30pm every Friday evening, augmented by tours, special events and food and drink.
I love the austere architecture, sit in the sun with a beer, watch a film, music or exhibition. They also do architecture tours which are great!
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Centro Barbican
Silk Street
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I love the austere architecture, sit in the sun with a beer, watch a film, music or exhibition. They also do architecture tours which are great!
The concrete-clad, 1960s modernist grandmother of them all: no theatrical tour of London is complete without a visit to the National. Grab a drink from the upper floor bars and take a balcony seat after the performance starts and everyone's enjoying themselves inside. Enjoy the sunset outside!
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Teatro Nacional
Upper Ground
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The concrete-clad, 1960s modernist grandmother of them all: no theatrical tour of London is complete without a visit to the National. Grab a drink from the upper floor bars and take a balcony seat after the performance starts and everyone's enjoying themselves inside. Enjoy the sunset outside!
Beautiful theatre. Easy to book tickets, easy to get in, easy to get out, and lots of room for your legs. Enjoy the show! Oh and there is a bar inside too. Buy tickets in person to avoid the dreaded booking fee. Also, the "restricted view" stools are excellent!
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Sadlers Wells Theatre (Stop UB) station
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Beautiful theatre. Easy to book tickets, easy to get in, easy to get out, and lots of room for your legs. Enjoy the show! Oh and there is a bar inside too. Buy tickets in person to avoid the dreaded booking fee. Also, the "restricted view" stools are excellent!
It's a small theatre and yes you've got good views even from the cheap seats but they are restricted if there are two levels used on stage. You might need to duck...
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Teatro Almeida
Almeida Street
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It's a small theatre and yes you've got good views even from the cheap seats but they are restricted if there are two levels used on stage. You might need to duck...
Buy tickets there in advance to avoid paying the booking fee.
Sadler's Wells
Rosebery Avenue
Buy tickets there in advance to avoid paying the booking fee.
Check the website for the programme. Exhibitions concerts, theatre and cinema. You can visit for a drink, too and check out the brutalist architecture.
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Centro Barbican
Silk Street
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Check the website for the programme. Exhibitions concerts, theatre and cinema. You can visit for a drink, too and check out the brutalist architecture.

Shopping

This is the quirky heart of Islington. Go on Saturday for the antiques market and shops, go round the hidden antiques court. Sunday has the food market.
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Camden Passage
Camden Passage
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This is the quirky heart of Islington. Go on Saturday for the antiques market and shops, go round the hidden antiques court. Sunday has the food market.
Cute store with unique acrylic jewelry designs. You can get a custom piece made in only 30 minutes. So get a bagel round the corner and come back! Good place to pick up a creative London souvenir. Ask to see my custom necklace ;-)
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Tatty Devine
236 Brick Ln
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Cute store with unique acrylic jewelry designs. You can get a custom piece made in only 30 minutes. So get a bagel round the corner and come back! Good place to pick up a creative London souvenir. Ask to see my custom necklace ;-)
Wonderful London-made clothes, also in big sizes.
Palava
Wonderful London-made clothes, also in big sizes.

Essentials

The best supermarket in the UK - not always the cheapest.
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Waitrose & Partners
366 Holloway Rd
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The best supermarket in the UK - not always the cheapest.
The biggest supermarket in the area. Competitive prices. Usually very busy.
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Sainsbury's
2 Tulse Hill
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The biggest supermarket in the area. Competitive prices. Usually very busy.
If you're coming from King's Cross, then this is the best bet. Good prices.
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Tesco Metro
361 Bethnal Green Rd
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If you're coming from King's Cross, then this is the best bet. Good prices.
Bread, baked goods, baking ingredients. It's all good.
Sunflour Bakery London
263 Caledonian Rd
Bread, baked goods, baking ingredients. It's all good.
The nearest and biggest Waitrose. More expensive that other supermarkets but bigger organic produce selection.
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Waitrose & Partners Kings Cross
1 Wharf Road
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The nearest and biggest Waitrose. More expensive that other supermarkets but bigger organic produce selection.

Entertainment & Activities

Wonderfully quirky cinema. Lovely comfy seats and VIP sofas. For the best rum hot chocolate you've ever had order at the bar, partake in the free snacks then have your drink delivered to your seat!
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Everyman Screen on the Green
83 Upper St
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Wonderfully quirky cinema. Lovely comfy seats and VIP sofas. For the best rum hot chocolate you've ever had order at the bar, partake in the free snacks then have your drink delivered to your seat!
If you need legroom, stick to films at the Renoir screen, unless you don't mind sitting in the front row at the smaller screens. Also, stick to the central area at the Renoir for a good viewing angle.
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Curzon Bloomsbury
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If you need legroom, stick to films at the Renoir screen, unless you don't mind sitting in the front row at the smaller screens. Also, stick to the central area at the Renoir for a good viewing angle.
If you can get tickets, it's an amazing experience!
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Estadio Emirates
Hornsey Road
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If you can get tickets, it's an amazing experience!