Top 10 Eating and Drinking
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1. The Real Greek
Award-winning restaurant serving Greek food like you’ve never tasted before – the best in London. Start withmezedes ,small portions of tasty starters. The wine list offers excellent Greek wines.
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2. Hoxton Square Kitchen and Bar
Popular hang-out in arty Hoxton, serving coffees and drinks all day. The lunchtime menu offers light meals such as barbecued chicken baguettes, artichoke quiches and pasta dishes.
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3. Shoreditch Electricity Showrooms
The old showrooms are now a large open bar with a neon-lit restaurant in the back where modern European dishes are served. Dancing in the basement Fri–Sat and some weekdays.
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4. Great Eastern Dining Room
Stylish Italian restaurant attracting a youthful crowd. The menu features such favourites as mashed potatoes and duck with pomegranates.
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5. Cargo
Imaginatively set in three railway arches, this large space is devoted to music, drink and food until 1am. There is live music every night in the back-room club.
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6. Home
This basement bar, fitted out with domestic furniture, has a good-value restaurant upstairs.
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7. Cantaloupe
A large warehouse bar where art students meet city workers. Chips and other snacks are served at the bar and a restaurant area serves up Mediterranean food.
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8. Via Fosse
Occupying three floors of an old coffee warehouse, this bar is a good stopping-off place on any visit to Docklands.
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9. Café Spice Namaste
One of a chain of Indian restaurants focusing on Goan and regional cooking.
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10. Prospect of Whitby
East London’s finest pub dates from 1520, and has old beams and barrels, a pewter bar and great river views.
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