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Waterside Dining
(menu)We found 15 restaurants in Best waterside restaurants & bars in London.
The wood-panelled interior of the Chop House reminded one visitor of a quaint river craft – apt, considering the view of the rolling Thames… more »
Old geezers & suave young Docklands residents can be found mingling at The Captain Kidd, passing the time of day & discussing the price of a pint… more »
South Hammersmith residents should rejoice: in The Crabtree, they have a pub with one of London’s best Thames-side beer gardens, located in a… more »
Swaggering & staggering distance from central Richmond, this branch of the Argentinian grill chain proves popular with the area’s macho men &… more »
With ‘not a straight floor, & hardly a straight line’ in its whole constitution (as Dickens put it in Our Mutual Friend), The Grapes has ‘olde-worlde’… more »
The Gun’s many admirers swoon over its beautiful riverside setting & capacious decked terrace: ‘on a sunny day, very few places in the… more »
Views of Bankside & the Globe are a real asset at this ultra-friendly, ‘wine dining’ establishment hidden away by the banks of the Thames… more »
Having just celebrated 20 years in the business, Le Pont de la Tour is on a steady trajectory of self-improvement – even if readers’ experiences… more »
Celeb chef & pub landlord Gordon Ramsay has got shot of most of his other London gastropubs, but The Narrow is the original & best. ‘GR’… more »
Northbank bills itself as a restaurant ‘with a Cornish twist’, but in the absence of any rugged coastline, it makes do with sweeping riverfront… more »
Bookmark the Prospect of Whitby as one to visit on your tour of London’s most atmospheric riverside pubs. The oldest of them all, this stone-floored… more »
The death of co-founder Rose Gray in 2010 hasn’t diminished the allure of this Thames-side institution, & diners still flock to The River Café… more »
The stone lions guarding the entrance to Royal China Canary Wharf clearly stopped anything untoward happening during a period of refurbishment… more »
With cutlery in pewter tankards, novels in birdcages & decorative taxidermy, the Globe’s revamped brasserie/bar has become an ode to ‘ye olde… more »
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It’s hard to beat the riverside location of this historic Greenwich boozer (dating from 1837). At high tide, take a seat in a bay window projecting… more »
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