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Cheap eats
Practical London guides tagged Cheap eats.
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Food and drink
The Best Wetherspoons in London, and the Case for the Chain
The best Wetherspoons in London, or best spoons: a 1913 banking hall, a Liverpool Street ballroom and a Grade I dock office, with the £1.89 refill coffee.
Food and drink
The Best Fried Chicken in London, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major List
Fourteen independent sources, one judged championship, and the awkward fact that the judges' champion appears on nobody's list. What each place actually fries, and where.
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
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
First Table takes 50% off food at 936 London restaurants for a £6 fee; EatClub takes 25–40% off the whole bill at 1,069 but cannot hold you a table. Both bury the same line: the service charge is worked out before your discount.
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 Mexican Restaurants in London
Mexican technique on entirely British ingredients, grasshopper guacamole in Bermondsey, and a Walthamstow stall pressing its own tortillas.
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 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.
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
Cheap Eats in London: 34 Places to Eat Well Under £15
Where to eat well 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
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 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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Plan your trip
London on a Budget: What a Day Actually Costs
A careful day in London costs about £32 and a comfortable one about £150. What you actually pay for a bed, a meal and a day's travel — and every route to paying less for each.
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.
Food and drink
The Best Bubble Tea in London, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major List
The bubble tea shops London's lists, blogs and boba reviewers agree on, checked for what's actually open. Several of the most-recommended names have closed.
Food and drink
The Best Vietnamese Restaurants in London, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major List
Thirteen independent sources, one Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the question the lists keep dancing around: is Kingsland Road still where the best Vietnamese food in London is?
Food and drink
The Best Caribbean Restaurants in London, Cross-Referenced Across Every Major List
Thirteen independent sources across 82 venues — and the reason a guide built only on magazines gets this subject wrong. Trinidadian, Jamaican, Guyanese and where each one actually is.
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.