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Hard Rock Hotel, London. Discover your Rock ‘n’Roll credentials.

It turns out the maiden aunt of Marble Arch has serious rock’n’roll credentials – Jimi Hendrix made it his London pied a terre and the great Buddy Holly stayed here before the day the music died.

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Tredwells. A delicious Marcus Wareing eatery in London’s theatreland.

Despite winning an AA London Restaurant of the Year title, some have praised it as a comfort food haven, others dismissing the place as over-hyped.

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Studio Olafur Eliasson Kitchen at Tate Modern. Discover a delicious food art pop up.

  This particular show is due to end in January when the exhibition finishes, but given the current demand for exciting and elegant vegetarian fare, it could run and run.

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Andy Mossack tucks into Indian street food at Little Kolkata in Covent Garden.

Little Kolkata, Covent Garden. Discover authentic Bengalese Street Food.

Prabir Chattopadhyay and Biswajit Deb Das sensing they were on to something, took a giant leap of faith in 2018 and opened a full-time Bengali restaurant in London’s trendy Covent Garden

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Wiltons Restaurant has made eight moves since starting as a shellfish-mongers in 1742 in London’s Haymarket - a plenty swanky address in recent centuries, but back then, just that - a market selling hay.

Legendary Wiltons Restaurant. London

That first memory of peering into Wiltons interior never went away and now, almost 35 years later, I have finally ventured inside.

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Novikov Restaurant and Bar

Novikov Restaurant and Bar. London’s best spot to be seen in.

It’s a bit like a restaurant theme park, with a Pan-Asian occupying the front and an Italian at the back and that’s where I’m bound

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