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I don't know London very well, but my favorite parts so far are the East End and Covent Garden, both of which I discovered with Dagmar. The East End was up-and-coming, but is probably already there now. There were some funky designer shops and good Indian and other eastern foods there. Covent Garden, and particularly Neal Street, has a lot of good and interesting places to eat, funky shoe stores (Shelly's, Buffalo, S-wear) and more. Soup place around the corner, little cafes. I read about a place called Quiet Revolution, featuring organic food and whatever kava-kava cocktails are. It's inside Aveda's lotions and potions.
174 High Holburn, WC1
+44 (0)20 7836 5407
Food for Thought is my favorite place to eat in London, and on my favorites list! The food is incredible. A menu that changes daily with desserts and salads. To drink there is water with lemon on each table.
The place is small and at peak times, it can be difficult to find a place to sit. Although the staff seems nice, the people that i suspect are the owners seem to always be half asleep or on valium.
Perhaps the sixties weren't too nice to them.
Food for Thought
31 Neal Street, London, WC2
Nearest Tube Station: Covent Garden
tel: 020 7836 9072
Shish, I don't know if it's a chain, but it's look is so clean, and it's such a good idea, that if it's not a chain, I'm sure it soon will be.
Each seat has it's own water taps, one for carbonated and one for non-carbonated water. They serve breakfast from 7:30-11AM as well as lunch and dinner and have a bar area upstairs.
Brunch is also available on weekends.
Shish, 2-6 Station Parade, Walm Lane, Willesden Green, London
It's about a 15 minute tube ride north of the city center
tel: 020 8208 9290
Covent Garden has tons of other great stores and places to eat. For wacky shoes, check out Swear www.swear-alternative.com (61 Neal street), Shelly's (14-18 Neal street), and Buffalo, all on Neal Street.
Stanford's Maps, Charts, Books is one of the best travel bookstores that I have seen. It is near Neal street, but I have misplaced the address.
 I read about a bar that has robotic bartenders in London called Cynthia's Cyberbar. Alas, I read about it on the flight home, so a visit will have to wait untill next time. It may be worth the novelty, it sure looks interesting. Maybe the novelty wears off after a drink or two, but I'll still check it out next time.
Cynthia's Cyberbar
4 Tooley Street
London
Tube: London Bridge stop
www.cynbar.co.uk
Check out Fredlet's Things to do in London
And a pretty good list of stuff to do in London for for people in town for wimbledon, but good for non-tennis fans as well.
The London Time-Out guide is famous, but a bit dry in my opinion, and they try to be too much for too many types of people, and end up half way to being a phone book.
Here are some places that I read about and will surely visit on my next trip to London.
Red Fort Kitchen/Akbar. Akbar is a vaulted cellar bar made to look like a middle-eastern bazaar. In addition to drinks, get hot snacks from the Red Fort Kitchen above.
77 Dean st, W1
+44 (0)20 7437 2525
Quod Zesty med-influenced menu in a glass-fronted bar/restaurant.
57 Haymarket, SW1
+44 (0)20 7925 1234
Hotel rooms for around $9 US a night?. I'll believe it when i see it live!
Hopefully a formerly unknown handbook on surviving in 1930s London for communist era spies will be released on the internet. The alternative tourist guide to London, compiled to aid infiltration into the UK, has been revealed amid hundreds of MI5 documents published at the National Archives.
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