London

London has 43 neighbourhoods and more than 2,900 places. Soho is the walk-in bar and the late table, Covent Garden is dinner before the curtain goes up, and Notting Hill is a slow Saturday around Portobello Road. Soho has the most on 390, then Covent Garden on 238 and Notting Hill on 174.

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Busiest neighbourhoods first.

390 places

Soho

Soho holds more saved places than any other part of London and roughly half the floor space.

238 places

Covent Garden

Covent Garden is where you end up rather than where you set out for, and it has a reputation to match.

174 places

Notting Hill

Notting Hill is more spread out than the postcard suggests.

Where you eat

4 guides

Fitzrovia

coffee, bakeries and restaurants that stay busy on a Monday

4 guides

Clerkenwell

lunch spots that empty out at 3pm

1 guides

Brixton

tacos, records and a night that starts late

1 guides

Canary Wharf

a rooftop garden, riverside pubs and very good coffee

1 guides

Earls Court

curry worth the trip, a detective agency and a proper pub

1 guides

Clapham

the common, wine bars and a nightclub nobody defends

1 guides

Kentish Town

a bakery on a bike, old pubs and a bookshop

1 guides

Maida Vale

canal boats, Little Venice and a good local pub

1 guides

Shepherds Bush

record shops, Westfield and a hotel restaurant worth booking

1 guides

Queens Park

a bakery, a butcher and a park to eat it in

Coffee first

3 guides

Kings Cross

a canal bookbarge, a listening bar and Coal Drops Yard

3 guides

Highbury

bakeries, wine and restaurants that do not advertise

3 guides

Bloomsbury

the British Museum, secondhand books and a bakery worth the walk

2 guides

Hoxton

a cocktail bar with shapes for a name, and a canal

2 guides

Paddington

canal-side eating and a bakery by the station

2 guides

Stoke Newington

tacos, Church Street and a slower Sunday

1 guides

Battersea

bakeries, the park and a stretch of new riverside

1 guides

Hampstead

the Heath, old pubs and the swimming ponds

Where you drink

5 guides

Shoreditch

round-the-clock bagels and coffee worth the queue

3 guides

Dalston

charcoal grills, natural wine and Cafe OTO

4 guides

London Fields

bakeries, Broadway Market and the lido

3 guides

Bethnal Green

old cafes, good cocktails, no queue for a photograph

1 guides

Hackney

the pubs, and everything that opened behind them

1 guides

Borough

food halls, coffee and pizza under the arches

1 guides

Bermondsey

railway arches, Maltby Street and Monmouth coffee

Where to sleep

4 guides

Holborn

hotel bars, small museums and a weekday lunch scrum

2 guides

Knightsbridge

hotel bars, Harrods and Hyde Park at the end of the road

2 guides

South Kensington

three world-class museums within one block

3 guides

Victoria

burgers, Buckingham Palace and a station worth escaping

Where you shop

5 guides

Marylebone

a high street that still works

5 guides

Spitalfields

the market, and a hundred restaurants around it

5 guides

Islington

gastropubs, curry and the length of Upper Street

4 guides

Chelsea

gastropubs, the Saatchi Gallery and a very good bookshop

2 guides

Peckham

rooftops, small rooms and no chains

Days out

6 guides

Mayfair

hotel bars, tasting menus and a food hall in a church

4 guides

London Bridge

market stalls and the pasta queues around them

4 guides

St James

old-school bars and tasting menus by the Royal Academy

4 guides

Camden

the market, the music venues and the Amy Winehouse mural

2 guides

Waterloo

the South Bank, a graffiti tunnel and a speakeasy in the station

1 guides

Hammersmith

the river, the River Cafe and a theatre or two

A neighbourhood shows up here once we hold enough places in one category to make a guide out of it. London has 43 of them today.