Tourist icon: the museum houses one of the country’s largest archives
(Picture: hurk/Pixaby)Thanks to the interwar goings-on of the Bloomsbury Group, the area around the British Museum is indelibly associated with intellectual pursuits. Physical appetites, however, are harder to satisfy in this strangely restaurant-starved corner of central London.
But much like the vast British Museum itself, there are treasures to discover here — it just takes knowing where to look. So from regional Chinese to Japanese omelettes, old-school Italian to new-wave Brit and the most exciting Thai to open in London for years, here are the five best restaurants near the British Museum. As Bloomsbury groupie-in-chief Virginia Woolf said: “One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” Here’s where to do just that.
