2 Newport Place, London, WC2H 7JP

If you’ve been to Japan, then Tokyo Diner will feel like walking into you favourite local! Complete with automatic sliding door …read more…

Down in the back lanes of exclusive Knightsbridge, the area housing Harrods and the Ritz, the Townhouse is a cosy little bar with …read more…

www.thetattershallcastle.co.uk
No, not a bar in an ancient English fortress but a ship with a bar and club bobbing cheerfully on the River Thames! It was originally a paddle steamer in …read more…

www.lab-bar.co.uk/lab
Cracking cocktails served at this fun little bar in Soho and they are damn fast at making them! It’s pretty small with two floors with a bar on both. The lower ground floor has …read more…

44-46 Cranbourn Street, Leicester Square, London, WC2

This is truly a local’s secret. A little wine bar, underground at Leicester Square that is not over run by tourists and sells one of the best selections of wine in London. The situation is interesting with 2 entrances. One right next to the sex shop …read more…

9-15 Pavilion Road, London, SW1X 0HD

This fantastic little italian restaurant is well deserving of the coveted categorisation ‘local secret’! Easy to walk past in the back streets of Knightbridge, it’s quite small and brilliantly noisy! We were greeted enthusiastically in Italian …read more…

www.simurghrestaurant.com
Very, very good Perisan food at this little restaurant in Covent Garden. Although it’s an easy walk from either Leicester Square or Covent Garden tube, it isnt overrun with tourists and has …read more…

www.blakeshotels.com
Ok, admittedly we have never stayed here but friends have and from all reports, its an awesome hotel. The rooms are quite extraordinary with HUGE 4 poster beds and …read more…

5 Dean Street, Soho, W1D 3RQ

The last one of a lovely french restaurant chain, Pierre Victoire is a bit of a locals London secret. The food is very very good and the service matches. If you arrive without a booking and there are no tables, the owner asks you …read more…

www.mlkhny.com
Could it get any slicker than Milk & Honey? We’ve been here quite a few times, slid up to the door with no sign, looked through the little peephole and buzzed to get in. It’s a members club but non-members can get in with …read more…