London Restaurant guide
 

Does anyone have a favorite London restaurant guide. I can't decide which to use. Fodors? Hardens?

I've had good luck with picks from both Hardens and Sandra Gustafson's &quot;Great Eats in London&quot;, as well as those found here at Fodors and from my Frommers guide. I'd have to say that the best choices for the $ were probably from the first two.<BR><BR>If you've not done so already, a text search for &quot;London and restaurant&quot; will find lots of recommendations here.

I really like Harden's. I think it tends to me more honest and easy to &quot;read between the lines&quot; so to speak. I'm not sure when I've disagreed with any of their comments. I also generally like the recommendations by Time Out -- and I believe they publish a regular restaurant guide. They also have a website.

Thanks for your help. Hardens seems to have good info for the money (free online)

Another interesting website with rather detailed reviews (but not a whole lot of them) is www.londonrestaurantreview.co.uk<BR>One of its best features is that you can enter a rail or tube station and it will list for reviews the restaurants closest to it.

I agree with Patrick. Hardens is by far the best (most honest). I never eat anywhere before I've checked it out in Harden's.<BR><BR>The website is useful, but you can't beat the pocket guide for flick-through advice. It rates all restaurants by price, atmosphere, food, as well as listing places in sections on: non-smoking, outdoor dining, late eats, great places for breakfast, business lunch, romance, type of cuisine, ranking in different price categories etc etc etc. Fab.<BR><BR>You can also get Harden's &quot;Cheap Eats&quot;, a sister guide for when you're feeling poor.

I too used the Cheap Eats in London guide when I was there last week. We ate in 4 restaurants from that book, and all of them were excellent!

OK, Kaudrey, spill the beans!! What were the four restaurants????

Oh, sorry. I guess I could have put that in there, Patrick! They were:<BR><BR>Efe's - a Turkish restaurant near the Great Portland St. tube <BR><BR>Vandelah's (sp?), a wonderful Indian restaurant which has changed it's name, weirdly, to Spicy World, a 5 minute walk from Victoria Station, on Wilton St, I believe...<BR><BR>Zizzi's - Italian near Baker St tube.<BR><BR>ASK - we just got pizza here, it was good, and it is a chain, I think.<BR><BR>Efe's, Zizzi's and ASK were are within walking distance of where I was staying by the Baker St. tube.

Thanks, you are all great. Will let you know how it goes when I leave in two weeks.

Hardens and Zagats follow very similar lines - I suspect Zagats was first with their US guides and Hardens copied style? Useful to make cross refs.<BR>Fodors on this web site may have totally ok comments but price references are a total farce - Londoners check it out and have a laugh - even places like Tootsies are wrong - under a tenner! How many years ago?