Things to do in London

[Mr. Dazzle]

Keep meaning to try this place
https://smokestak.co.uk/

Smokehouses are ten a penny in that London now, although that one does look pretty good.

I still want to go to Duck and Waffle just for their signature eponymous dish.

https://duckandwaffle.com/menu/dinner/

[Mr Moofo]

Borough Market and some of the pop up food markets in London are worth visit.
I'm a big fan of the Science and War museums, and also a Tate Modern go-er. Museum of London can be good - and then look for graffiti tours / alternative walking tours/ etc

Is there anything left to do with the Navy in Greenwich these days? I guess the Cutty Sark is still there - but anything else?

Don't bother with Camden Market - it has become all Disney-fied.

I am guessing that Mrs Potter and the Potterettes may have have enough Indian food for a life time - so hit a pie n mash shop - Manze's in Bermondsey just next to Tower Bridge.

Flesh n Buns is also good and interesting -
https://www.fleshandbuns.com

or if you want propah English - go to Rules
https://rules.co.uk

[Mr. Dazzle]

Is there anything left to do with the Navy in Greenwich these days? I guess the Cutty Sark is still there - but anything else?

National Maritime Museum is still there (free), as is the Royal Observatory up the hill (partly free, IIRC). The Market has some nice 'street food' too.

[gremlin]

Is there anything left to do with the Navy in Greenwich these days? I guess the Cutty Sark is still there - but anything else?

National Maritime Museum is still there (free), as is the Royal Observatory up the hill (partly free, IIRC). The Market has some nice 'street food' too.

Fair play. River bus to Greenwich, Cutty Sark (is the Gypsy Moth still there?), then wander up through the park to the Observatory and Blackheath is up there. I'm sure the village has a decent restaurant or two. From Blackheath station you can get a train straight back into Charing Cross for the West End.

[Taipan]

We normally get off the train at Fenchurch St and walk to the lovely https://www.davy.co.uk/wine-bar/mug-house/ for a coffee or beer. Then into Borough Market then along the south bank. Then we head up into Covent Garden and surrounding areas and either take in a show or have a meal somewhere. It's always a great day out but then we love London.

We did the Harrods, Fortnum & Masons etc thing once but didn't like it at all and wouldn't bother with it again. Royal parks are nice, but more so in Summer.

River bus is supposed to be good and we must get round to doing that at some point...

[gremlin]

walk to the lovely https://www.davy.co.uk/wine-bar/mug-house/ for a coffee or beer.

Don't let on, but 'Davy's Old Wallop' is just Courage Directors....

Worst kept secret in the City.

[Yorick]

*Shudder*

[Count Steer]

Dependent upon weather, start at the London Eye and head east along the southbank. You get to see the river and buildings up close, including the Globe theatre. Mooching along takes you past some reasonable riverside pubs, so stop for a couple, but keep walking past Tower Bridge and have lunch/dinner at Smiths of Wapping. ( https://smithsrestaurants.com/smiths-wapping/ )Really good fish restaurant, away from the City crowds but stunning views of Tower Bridge to the O2. The Town of Ramsgate pub, ( https://townoframsgate.pub/ )a few yards further along, is a nice old traditional boozer.

That walk's one of my favourite things to do as a flâneur. Somewhere along there is/was a museum of modern design IIRC. They had at least 2 things we have, one of which is a bright red Olivetti Valentine typewriter. One advert for it was 'if you don't want to be noticed, carry a red typewriter' with a young woman in the buff carrying one on a busy street.

We'd start with a salt beef sandwich at the RFH. Sometimes sit outside a pub opposite the Mermaid theatre when the helicopters had a moored landing stage there.

[Mr. Dazzle]

flâneur.

Word of the day!

[Rockburner]

River bus is supposed to be good and we must get round to doing that at some point...

I would have suggested a DuckTour - but it seems they're in hibernation.

https://www.londonducktours.co.uk/

[gremlin]

flâneur.

Word of the day!

Most people use the term 'Quiche' these days.

[gremlin]

River bus is supposed to be good and we must get round to doing that at some point...

I would have suggested a DuckTour - but it seems they're in hibernation.

https://www.londonducktours.co.uk/

After a number of episodes of spontaneous combustion and near-sinkings.

[Count Steer]

We're having a short break in a couple of weeks and heading over to the UK for a bit, including a few days in London.
We'll have a shopping day and the family want to do a sight-seeing day, the palace, the bridge, etc.

But other than that I'm not sure what else to do, we're staying in a nice hotel and I can also seeing us just having a hotel day where my missus and girls will do some beauty stuff and I'll sit with a cravat and smoking jacket in the lounge.
I don't think she'll be up for hookers and drugs and I don't fancy going anywhere where we'll be stabbed.

Go buy a hat?

https://lairdlondon.co.uk/

Ooh! I'm liking some of those.

[Mr. Dazzle]

If you're talking Hats in London...

https://www.lockhatters.com

[slowsider]

Isn't there some placed famed for its afternoon teas that one of this parish is involved with?

[gremlin]

Isn't there some placed famed for its afternoon teas that one of this parish is involved with?

Pret?

[slowsider]

Isn't there some placed famed for its afternoon teas that one of this parish is involved with?

Pret?

Twet

[asmethurst99]

Keep meaning to try this place
https://smokestak.co.uk/

Smokehouses are ten a penny in that London now, although that one does look pretty good.

I still want to go to Duck and Waffle just for their signature eponymous dish.

https://duckandwaffle.com/menu/dinner/

I know - jay rayner rated it and it’s 2 mins from our house

[the_priest]

Rules for Luncheon, The Ritz for High Tea and the wander up past Tower Bridge for dinner. You'll be stuffed! Oh yes, Black Taxi home to the hotel. Non of this public transport stuff.

V&A and Natural History/Science museums are lovely and worth a visit. used to live 15 minutes walk from them. See if there is a concert/show at the Royal Albert Hall, another good place for atmosphere.

Walk across the parks from Holland Park to Green Park, have that High Tea at the Ritz one day. Covent Garden for Rules (10 minutes from Tragfalgar Sq and National Portrait Gallery). Rules still provide ingredients for the Christmas meals for homeless people at Connection at St Martin's, they have been great supporters for many years.

Go to London Eye and Shard for views. You can do that for free from Shooters Hill on a clear day, but then you have to go to Eltham to do that, how brave are you? Lots of parks are worth walking through on a fine autumn day and you see statues etc... just pleasant to wander with the family.

Whatever you choose, hope you and the family have a good time and make good memories.

[Count Steer]

Go to London Eye and Shard for views. You can do that for free from Shooters Hill on a clear day, but then you have to go to Eltham to do that, how brave are you?

If Eltham is a bit too Beirut, Hampstead Heath has some good views and there's a little more to do in Hampstead itself although it was getting touristy last time I was there. So a stroll down to Belsize Park (you could doff your baker boy cap at my old residence on the way ) and a gelato at the venerable Marine Ices in Chalk Farm then tube or cab to avoid the awfulness that Camden has become.