Start from 163 curated places around London, GB, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Koya Soho
A tiny Japanese udon bar where they make the thick wheat noodles by hand and serve them hot in dashi or cold with a dipping broth. The breakfast udon and the daily specials chalked on the wall are what regulars come back for. Good for a solo lunch at the counter when you want something restorative and quick.
BAO Soho
The original site of London's Taiwanese bao group, a tight room turning out pillowy steamed buns stuffed with braised pork or fried chicken. Order the classic pork bao and the fried-chicken one, then build a meal from the small plates. It's counter-and-stool casual, designed for a fast, brilliant lunch.
Trails & outdoors
Tamsin Trail
A circular path that loops the entire perimeter of Richmond Park, London's largest open space, passing through grassland grazed by free-roaming red and fallow deer. It is shared by walkers and cyclists and gives a real sense of countryside inside the city.
Parliament Hill
The climb up the southeast corner of Hampstead Heath to one of London's best free skyline views. The short, steep walk up the grass meadow ends at a summit with an engraved viewpoint marking the buildings on the horizon.
Things to do
British Museum
The vast free national museum of human history and culture, holding the Rosetta Stone, the Parthenon sculptures, and Egyptian mummies under Norman Foster's glass-roofed Great Court. It is one of the world's great collections and you could spend days inside.
Tate Modern
The national museum of modern and contemporary art in a converted Bankside power station on the south bank of the Thames. The cavernous Turbine Hall hosts huge commissioned installations, and the free collection runs from Picasso to the present.
Landmarks & sights
Tower of London
A working royal fortress on the Thames that has been a palace, prison, mint, and execution ground since William the Conqueror started it in 1078. It holds the Crown Jewels and is guarded by the Yeoman Warders, the ceremonial 'Beefeaters' who actually live inside the walls.
Westminster Abbey
The Gothic church where every English coronation since 1066 has taken place and where seventeen monarchs are buried. Poets' Corner holds the graves and memorials of Chaucer, Dickens, and Hardy, and Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin lie under the floor.