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Cheap eats
Practical London guides tagged Cheap eats.
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Food and drink
Kids Eat Free in London: Every Restaurant Deal, Checked
Every kids-eat-free and kids-eat-for-£1 offer with a London branch, read off the operator's own website — the exact terms, the adult spend you have to make, the age limits, and the ten central London branches that are excluded by name.
Food and drink
Off-Peak Restaurant Apps in London: First Table, EatClub and the Rest
The apps that discount London's empty tables, tested against their own terms — real booking fees, what the 50% actually covers, which slots exist, and the service charge clause that quietly takes some of it back.
Food and drink
Restaurant Discount Cards in London: Tastecard vs Gourmet Society vs Meerkat Meals vs NeoTaste
Every paid restaurant discount card tested against the London list — real prices, the exclusions in the small print, how many restaurants actually take each one in W1, WC2, SE1, E1 and SW1, and which is worth it.
Food and drink
London Restaurant Deals: Set Lunch and Pre-Theatre Menus
Verified fixed-price menus across London — set lunch, pre-theatre and early evening — from £12.50 to Michelin-starred, with the real prices, the days and times they run, and what the same food costs at dinner.
Food and drink
The Best Burgers in London, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major List and Award of the Year
Not our opinion. Every burger here is ranked by how many independent awards, critics and reviewers name it — and by what the National Burger Awards judges actually cooked against.
Food and drink
The Best Street Food in London: Every Market and Food Hall Compared
Every multi-trader street food venue in London compared on traders, variety, seating, vibe — and, most usefully, which days it actually exists.
Food and drink
The Best Sandwiches in London: Salt Beef, Sandos and Toasties
A 24-hour salt beef beigel on Brick Lane, a four-cheese toastie sold three days a week, and the Marylebone deli that has been cutting sandwiches into triangles since 1900.
Food and drink
The Best Ice Cream in London: Gelato, Soft Serve and Cult Queues
London's best gelaterias, the Clapham queue that stretches to the tube, a Filipino ube parlour, and the vegan oat-milk maker in a Crystal Palace courtyard that opens two days a week.
Food and drink
The Best Bakeries in London: 24 Worth Queuing For
The ten London bakeries named among Britain's best for 2026, the queues locals actually join, and a Portuguese custard tart institution that has been on Golborne Road since 1984.
Things to do
London's Best Independent Cinemas: 20 Screens
Where the Lumière brothers first showed film in Britain, a 1913 cinema Clapton crowdfunded back, and a Peckham screen where seats are £6.99.
Food and drink
The Best Coffee in London: 18 Roasters and Counters
London's best independent coffee — the roaster trading since 1978, a counter inside a Victorian lavatory, and beans roasted inside prisons.
Things to do
The Best Comedy Clubs in London: 17 Nights, 8 Venues and 4 Festivals
Where alternative comedy started in 1979, a pub running free stand-up seven nights a week, the theatres that book the touring names, and why every London comedy festival lands in the same six weeks.
Food and drink
The Best Fish and Chips in London, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major Guide and Award of the Year
Not our opinion. Every chippy here is ranked by how many independent guides, awards and reviewers name it — from beef dripping in Bloomsbury to matzo meal in West Hampstead.
Food and drink
The Best Korean Restaurants in London and New Malden
One of Europe's largest Korean communities is thirty minutes from Waterloo — charcoal grills, fried chicken and home cooking along three New Malden streets, plus the central options.
Food and drink
The Best Mexican Restaurants in London
Mexican technique on entirely British ingredients, grasshopper guacamole in Bermondsey, and a Walthamstow stall pressing its own tortillas.
Food and drink
The Best Thai Restaurants in London: Isaan, Southern and Live Fire
London's Thai kitchens arranged by the region they actually cook — Isaan sour-and-fermented, Southern curry-over-rice, and the UK's only Michelin-starred Thai restaurant.
Food and drink
Cheap Eats in London: 34 Places to Eat Well Under £15
Where to eat properly in London on a budget — a £3.95 pizza in Fitzrovia, £5 kati rolls in Covent Garden, and the cash-only chippy east London votes for.
Food and drink
Late-Night Eating in London: Where to Eat After Midnight
A 24-hour caff with no front door, ramen at 1am, Whitechapel lamb chops and a fry-up forty floors up — where London actually feeds you late.
Plan your trip
London on a Budget: How to Do the City Cheaply
Every national museum is free, the highest viewing platform in London costs nothing, and you can watch a trial at the Old Bailey — how to do the city properly without the London prices.
Food and drink
The Best Pizza in London, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major List and Review of the Year
Not our opinion. Every pizzeria here is ranked by how many independent awards, critics and reviewers name it.