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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Ben McCormack

No reservations: London's best restaurants to turn up to without a booking

One of the silver linings in the cloud of Covid was that many of London’s formerly no-reservations restaurants decided that it was high time they offered bookings. Good news for anyone who likes to eat at a pre-ordained time, less so for those who prefer to dine out on the spur of the moment.

Still, that’s not to say that the capital no longer accommodates spontaneity. Below we’ve selected the central London areas with the greatest concentration of restaurants that don’t require planning ahead.

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