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The London Sunday has a shape to it, and at its centre sits the roast. Done well, it is one of the great meals: beef the colour of a good wine, potatoes that shatter, a Yorkshire pudding the size of your head, and an afternoon that goes nowhere in particular.
We have hunted down the city’s finest in our guide to the best Sunday roasts in London. Make it the anchor of the day and build everything else around it.
Book the late sitting. A roast should never be rushed.
Dining Bottomless rum punch, market chaos and a genuine mix of cuisines: Camden brunch never takes itself too seriously.
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Dining Long, unhurried and worth dressing for: the London brunches that earn a slow weekend morning.
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Dining The best restaurants in Highgate: where to eat well, chosen on merit.
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Eating
Most great dinners in London are a means to an end. You eat, you talk, you move on to the bar, the show, the rest of the night. The tasting menu refuses to be that. It is not the warm-up. It is the whole event, the curtain up and the curtain down, three hours that […]
13 Jun 2026Read →
Eating
Afternoon tea is not a tourist trap. It is one of the last unhurried things London does on purpose. Lunch is rushed and dinner is a production, but the hours between belong to nobody, and that is precisely the point. You sit. You stay. You let an afternoon become long. In a city that measures […]
2 Jun 2026Read →
Eating
London does not fall for things loudly. It just keeps showing up. And over the last decade or so, the city has shown up for Japanese food again and again, until it stopped feeling like a special occasion and started feeling like a default. You see it everywhere now. The counter where one chef feeds […]
28 Apr 2026Read →