Customer Reviews

The Traditional Shops & Restaurants of London: A Guide to Century-Old Establishments and New Classics

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I'd visited London a dozen times before buying this book -- and I still found lots of new places to visit. The book groups stores and restaurants into chapters such as "Coffee Roasters and Tea Merchants" and "Purveyors of Specialty Foods" as well as more obscure categories such as "Umbrella Shops" (well, after all, this is London!)

Each shop or restaurant has a page or two devoted to it, itemizing the address, phone number, website, nearest Tube stop, and hours of operation. There's also a brief history of each store as well as the best things to buy there (or order there, in the case of the restaurants and pubs.)

The book ends with a quick roundup of the best street markets in London.

This is a book for the discerning Anglophile. Its small size makes it easy to tuck into your carry-on bag.

This book is well worth the Amazon price. I was a little skeptical of it, but it turned out to be of good quality.

The pages are small, but the book is thick. It is too thick to be able to leave open, even for a moment, so you will need a bookmark handy.

I'm sure some of the information could be found googling, but it would take too long to do the work yourself. The book is efficient.

The photographs are of a good quality. They keep me engaged and give me a sense of many of the businesses. The photographs are better than books of a similar style.

I might not travel to London with the book. I am making my own list from the book of sites to see when I am there, and this is because of the weight.

A great guide to London. I used it more for shopping than eating. I used it maily for finding traditional men's wear and shaving accessories. The postal codes included with each entry greatly helped finding each establishment in this HUGE city. All were easily reached via the Underground.

The only negative thing about the book is it caused me to spend way too much money and resulted in much heavier baggage for the return trip.

Excellent, any interested in unique old & interesting places in London should buy this book, loved it.