Where to eat in Bloomsbury
13 places
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Bancone
££Watch the pasta being rolled at the counter, at prices well below the Michelin Guide average.
Café Deco
££A short daily-changing menu on Store Street, out of the Rochelle Canteen and Quality Chop House lineage.
Cocoro
££Open since 2006 and the sort of place Japanese office groups and families actually eat - sushi, sukiyaki and a tonkotsu ramen that punches above the room.
Colonel Saab
£££Inside the old Holborn Town Hall, filled with the owner's family collection of Indian antiques. Named Asian Restaurant of the Year for London.
Dalloway Terrace
£££A covered terrace at The Bloomsbury Hotel whose floral installation is changed with the season, so the room looks different in February and in July.
Named by four sources. The seasonal changeover is worth checking before travelling for a particular look.
Fortitude Bakehouse
£A small Bloomsbury bakehouse a couple of minutes from Russell Square, which is a short list.
Honey & Co
£££Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich cook the food they write about, in rooms small enough that the kitchen is effectively at your table.
Mao Master Hotpot Noodle
£Maocai rather than malatang: the same one-bowl idea, and the broths run classic spicy, chicken and fresh tomato. Lotus root, Chinese yam, enoki, tofu puffs and bean curd rolls hold up best.
Master Wei
££Hand-pulled biang biang noodles and Xi'an street food near Russell Square, from the team behind Xi'an Impression.
Noble Rot
£££Started as a wine magazine and became a restaurant - the list is the point and the kitchen is built to serve it.
Redemption Roasters
£The beans are roasted inside prisons by people the company then trains and employs on release - a coffee chain built entirely around reducing reoffending.
Rosewood London
££££Taken in the Mirror Room of a Belle Epoque building off High Holborn - the grand-hotel format outside the Mayfair cluster.
The Fryer's Delight
£Formica tables, beef dripping, and a room that has not been redecorated in decades. The most-cited chippy in London.