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music acts and even occasional Little Bay, 228 Belsize Road, Green and Red, 51 Bethnal culinary haven near Old Street. Vauxhall, SW8. Great pub food
drag. Great food and cocktails. NW6. Wonderfully down-to- Green Road, E1. 020 7749 9670. British/French menu. www. in upmarket, riverside gastropub
GAY-FRIENDLY DINING Approx. £36 per head. www. earth and charming restaurant Fiesta-style restaurant with loungelover.co.uk that boasts terrific views of the
OPTIONS floridita.co.uk serving Modern European Mexican food and a huge tequila Thames.
cuisine at very reasonable prices selection - with basement Tinseltown, 44-46 St John
CENTRAL Ping Pong, 45 Great (particularly at lunchtime). bar and dancefloor area for Street, Farringdon, EC1. Want a Royal Teas, 76 Royal Hill,
Malborough Street, Soho, W1. Excellent value for money. afterwards. www.greenred.co.uk double cheeseburger and Mars Greenwich, SE10. 020-8691
Amato, 14 Old Compton Street, Our favourite place for dim Bar Milkshake at 5am? Then 7240. Delightfully charming café
Soho, W1. 020-7734 5733. Busy sum. Modern, stylish, with 24-hour, subterranean American offering tea, scones, cakes and
café and patisserie, offering a great selection of cheap diner Tinseltown is the place other delights for an eclectic
pasta dishes and a huge array dishes. The Malborough Street to head. Round the clock diner crowd. Brit camp fabulousness.
of cakes. Very popular with gay branch is the original, but there (24/7) popular with late-night www.royalteascafe.co.uk
Soho. www.amato.co.uk are now eight other outlets clubbers – very near Fabric.
around London – check www. Cool when quiet but avoid if The Stonhouse, 165
Balans, 60 Old Compton Street, pingpongdimsum.com there’s a queue for entry. www. Stonhouse Street, SW4. Lovely
W1. 020-7439 2183. The nearest tinseltown.co.uk Clapham gastropub with great
Soho has to a gay restaurant, Ristorante Biagio, 189 steaks, burgers, salads and
busy throughout the week and Piccadilly, W1. 020-7434-1921. SOUTH sandwiches. Approx. £22 a head.
open throughout the day and Great, authentic Italian food www.renaissancepubs.co.uk/SH
night. Traditional British dishes in contemporary and smart Bonnington Café, 11 Vauxhall
with Meditteranean and Asian surroundings, spread over four Grove, SW8. Cheap, cheerful Upstairs Bar and Restaurant,
flourishes. Approx. £28 per head. floors. Approx. £32 per head. and very gay-friendly co- 89b Acre Lane, SW2. Hidden
See also the nearby Balans Café www.ristorantebiagio.co.uk operatively run vegetarian café gem and local secret. Critically
at 34 Old Compton Street. www. in Bonnington Square. Pig out acclaimed, eclectic European
balans.co.uk Stef’s, 3 Berners Street, W1 020- on three courses for £10! http:// menu, with emphasis on French
3073 1041. Huge, gay-friendly s208303316.websitehome.co.uk cuisine. Limited choice each day,
Bodeans, 10 Poland Street, Italian – formerly Linda’s Pasta but menu changes daily. Open
W1. 020-7287 0506. Cheap and Bar on Poland Street – moved to El Panzon @ The Dogstar, Tue-Sat. www.upstairslondon.
cheerful barbecue restaurant, the other side of Oxford Street in
Kenza
389 Coldharbour Lane, SW9. com
with counter service upstairs and 2007. Pizza and pasta heaven. Authentic Mexican and Tex-mex
restaurant down below. Popular Pick More Daisies, 12 Crouch Hanoi Café, 98 Kingsland Road, restaurant and fantastic prices WEST
with visiting Americans, plus the Steph’s, 39 Dean Street, Soho, End Hill, N8. Californian café bar E2. 020-7729 5610. Authentic in the trendy Dogstar bar. Don’t
odd bear from the nearby Kings W1. 02-07734 5976. Long- - great for a weekend brunch Vietnamese food for any budget miss the burritos or the taco Balans Knightsbridge, 239
Arms! Branches also in Clapham, running, gay-friendly restaurant or Sunday lunch – attracting – sometimes a bit crammed plate to share. Approx. £14 per Old Brompton Road, SW5.
Fulham and Westbourne Grove. in Soho, presided over by hostess trendy-ish North London crowd. with Dalston’s club kids but you head. www.elpanzon.co.uk 020-7244 8838. More Earls
www.bodeansbbq.com Steph and offering classic British www.pickmoredaisies.com won’t find better traditional Court than Knightsbridge! Very
comfort dishes. A favourite with Vietnamese soup based dishes. The Hill, 89 Royal Hill, SE10. gay-friendly restaurant, offering
Boulevard Bar & Dining the theatre crowd. The Vine, 86 Highgate Road, www.hanoicafe.co.uk 020-8691 3626. Attentive British and Mediterranean
Room, 57-59 Old Compton Kentish Town, NW5. 020-7209 service and very gay-friendly. A dishes. Approx. £28 per head.
Street, W1. 020-7287 0770. Wagamama, 10a Lexington 0038. Traditional Edwardian Kenza, 10a Devonshire Square, bit pricey for what’s essentially www.balans.co.uk
American-brasserie style Street, Soho, W1. 020-7292 pub given a stylish gastropub EC2. 020-7929 5533. Delightful an upmarket gastropub, but
restaurant, offering a ‘modern 0990. Our favourite branch makeover, but still offering a and sumptuous subterranean worth it. Modern British/ The Fat Badger, 310
British menu with an Italian of the noodle chain, offering cosy welcome and decent British Middle Eastern restaurant a European menu. Portobello Road, W10. Upmarket
influence’ in the heart of gay cheap, healthy Japanese delights food. www.thevinelondon.co.uk stone’s throw from Liverpool and classy gastropub, serving
Soho. www.boulevardbrasserie. – great gyoza and… well, Street station. Arabic interior and The Loft, 67 Clapham High fine British cuisine. Good Sunday
co.uk noodles! £16 per head. Check World Café, 130 Crouch Hill, mezza menu – approx. £35 per Street, SW4. 020-7627 0792. roast. www.thefatbadger.com
website for other branches Haringey, N8. 020-8340 5635.
Coffee, Cake & Kink, 61 - www.wagamama.com Trendy, chic, gay-friendly café
Endell Street, Covent Garden, for Crouch Hill crowd, serving
WC2. 020-7149 2996. ‘The only NORTH snacks, main meals and fab
kinky café gallery in the UK’, cappuccinos.
this small little café features Gilgamesh, Camden View,
erotic art exhibitions, books, Camden Stables Market, Chalk EAST
prints, fairtrade coffee, pastries Farm Road, NW1. Huge, ornate
and cakes. Naughty, but nice. and lavish pan-Asian restaurant Bistrotheque, 23-27 Wadeson
Open 11am-8am Sun-Thur and with one of London’s most Street, Bethnal Green, E2.
11am-11pm Fri-Sat. www. stunning interiors. Food good Modern, contemporary classy
coffeecakeandkink.com rather than outstanding, but restaurant with basement bar
worth a visit for the décor. and cabaret room, and fine
First Out, 52 St Giles High Cheaper at lunchtime than the dining upstairs – modern British
Street, WC2. 020-7240 8042. evening. www.gilgameshbar. cuisine and French bistro dishes
Long-running, gay-run café com – approx. £35 per head. www.
and bar, serving homemade bistrotheque.com Coffee, Cake & Kink
vegetarian dishes, coffee and La Porchetta, 141-142 Upper
cakes. Lots of gay magazines, Street, N1. 020-7288 2488. The Easton, 22 Easton Street, head. www.kenza-restaurant. Upmarket and stylish restaurant, Gourmet Burger Kitchen,
community info and flyers. Great value pizza and pasta WC1. 020-7278 7609. Cool co.uk bar and late-night haunt. 131 Chiswick High Road, W4.
www.firstoutcafebar.com restaurant, with possibly some gastropub just off Exmouth Classic British dishes and lots of Delicious burgers, shakes and
of the biggest pizzas in London! Market. Sunday lunch is pack Les Trois Garcons, 1 Club Row, cocktails. Approx. £40 per head. onion rings at popular American
Floridita, 100 Wardour Street, Sister branches in Finsbury Park with Clerkenwell-istas and Whitechapel, E1. 020-7613 www.theloft-clapham.co.uk eatery – other branches across
W1. 020-7314 4000. Large, and Bloomsbury. Approx. £17 the food is top notch. www. 1924. A former Victorian boozer, London. www.gbkinfo.com
glamorous Cuban-themed per head. theeaston.co.uk stuffed with baroque decor The Riverside, 5 Hamilton
restaurant and bar, with regular and antiques, creating a camp, House, 5 St George Wharf,
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