Guidebook for London

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Guidebook for London

Essentials

This is our favourite supermarket and is just a few minutes walk from the apartment. Take a shopping bag with you! They are stored in the bottom drawer under the hob.
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Waitrose & Partners Barbican
Whitecross Street
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This is our favourite supermarket and is just a few minutes walk from the apartment. Take a shopping bag with you! They are stored in the bottom drawer under the hob.
This daily - every weekday lunch - market is full of incredibly foods from around the world. Why bother to cook when you can eat so well and so cheaply when you buy out! Also, stalls selling amazing sourdough bread and great cakes.
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Whitecross Street Market
132 Whitecross St
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This daily - every weekday lunch - market is full of incredibly foods from around the world. Why bother to cook when you can eat so well and so cheaply when you buy out! Also, stalls selling amazing sourdough bread and great cakes.

Food Scene

A charming coffee and snack bar, just a few steps from the apartment
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49 Old St
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A charming coffee and snack bar, just a few steps from the apartment
This is one of our favourite local restaurants and we eat here very regularly - usually from the bar menu, but sometimes treating ourselves to the main restaurant. Highly recommended.
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Saint John Restaurant
26 Saint John Street
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This is one of our favourite local restaurants and we eat here very regularly - usually from the bar menu, but sometimes treating ourselves to the main restaurant. Highly recommended.
One of our top restaurants in walking distance from the apartment. This is where we go for a special event - or sometimes if we need to treat ourselves.
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Moro
34-36 Exmouth Market
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One of our top restaurants in walking distance from the apartment. This is where we go for a special event - or sometimes if we need to treat ourselves.
Voted in top ten London coffee shops in a recent survey -'incredible coffee and delicious food in an old record shop'
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Brill
27 Exmouth Market
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Voted in top ten London coffee shops in a recent survey -'incredible coffee and delicious food in an old record shop'
Coffee lovers hugely recommend this coffee shop - the brunches are also amazing!
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Workshop Coffee Clerkenwell
27 Clerkenwell Road
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Coffee lovers hugely recommend this coffee shop - the brunches are also amazing!

Arts & Culture

We go to the cinema here almost every Monday night when we are in London as the seats are cheap and the film choice is great. We also love the new cafe in the Barbican centre and often drop in for a coffee and snack.
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I-Centre ye-Barbican
Silk Street
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We go to the cinema here almost every Monday night when we are in London as the seats are cheap and the film choice is great. We also love the new cafe in the Barbican centre and often drop in for a coffee and snack.
Try to book up to see some contemporary dance at this wonderful venue. I have been seeing dance here since I was a young child and have seen some incredible productions.
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Sadlers Wells Theatre (Stop UB) station
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Try to book up to see some contemporary dance at this wonderful venue. I have been seeing dance here since I was a young child and have seen some incredible productions.
Tate Modern is an easy walk from the apartment and a walk that takes you over the wonderful iconic pedestrian footbridge that crosses the Thames below St Pauls Cathedral taking you directly to the Tate. This gallery is a wonderful place just to hang out. There are new exhibitions throughout the year - check their website - and a wonderful permanent collection of twentieth century art.
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Tate Modern
Bankside
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Tate Modern is an easy walk from the apartment and a walk that takes you over the wonderful iconic pedestrian footbridge that crosses the Thames below St Pauls Cathedral taking you directly to the Tate. This gallery is a wonderful place just to hang out. There are new exhibitions throughout the year - check their website - and a wonderful permanent collection of twentieth century art.

Sightseeing

A vibrant bustling street lined with wonderful independent retailers and East London's most popular and extensive flower market - Sunday is the best day to visit
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Columbia Road Flower Market
Columbia Road
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A vibrant bustling street lined with wonderful independent retailers and East London's most popular and extensive flower market - Sunday is the best day to visit
For sightseeing and general browsing, make sure you save time to visit Spitalfields, both for the antiques market and the great independent retailers that surround the original indoor market
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I-Market ye-Old Spitalfields
16 Commercial St
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For sightseeing and general browsing, make sure you save time to visit Spitalfields, both for the antiques market and the great independent retailers that surround the original indoor market

Everything Else

Probably the most wonderful place to swim in East London. The lido is open all year round, is 50m long, heated and open to the sky and the elements in Hackney's London Fields
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Izitsha zaseLondon
London Fields West Side
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Probably the most wonderful place to swim in East London. The lido is open all year round, is 50m long, heated and open to the sky and the elements in Hackney's London Fields