Guidebook for Greater London
Food Scene
A cute café on Wapping Lane with artfully mismatched furniture, free wifi and an in-store book exchange. The menu features plenty of options for vegetarians, fresh fruit smoothies and a variety of hot drinks, including gingerbread latte, caramel hot chocolate and a Nutella cappuccino.
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Cinnamon Coffee Shop
103 Wapping LnA cute café on Wapping Lane with artfully mismatched furniture, free wifi and an in-store book exchange. The menu features plenty of options for vegetarians, fresh fruit smoothies and a variety of hot drinks, including gingerbread latte, caramel hot chocolate and a Nutella cappuccino.
Attracting Wapping residents as well as tourists over the years, Il Bordello often sees queues out of the door during the week. Despite its position at the bottom of one of Wapping’s modernised brick wharfs, you could be taking a step back into the 1990s here – complete with tables covered in plastic cloths, and napkins carefully curled into wine glasses. The food, complemented by an all-Italian wine list, is similarly straightforward.
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Il Bordello
70 Wapping WallAttracting Wapping residents as well as tourists over the years, Il Bordello often sees queues out of the door during the week. Despite its position at the bottom of one of Wapping’s modernised brick wharfs, you could be taking a step back into the 1990s here – complete with tables covered in plastic cloths, and napkins carefully curled into wine glasses. The food, complemented by an all-Italian wine list, is similarly straightforward.
The east London branch of this Italian café-cum-deli, where you can taste the authentic food and drink (imported from 20 different Italian suppliers), as well as buy it to take home. They serve breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week, so you can pop in any time, and they have another shop in Pimlico.
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Gastronomica Wapping
75 Garnet StThe east London branch of this Italian café-cum-deli, where you can taste the authentic food and drink (imported from 20 different Italian suppliers), as well as buy it to take home. They serve breakfast, lunch and dinner seven days a week, so you can pop in any time, and they have another shop in Pimlico.
Drinks & Nightlife
If you've ever taken a boat up the Thames, you'll have probably noticed a scaffold and hangman's noose outside an appealingly aged tavern by the Wapping riverside. It’s a grim reminder of Execution Dock, a nearby gallows where many a pirate met his end (yes, really). And the tavern in question is the Prospect of Whitby, London’s oldest riverside pub and the best of three by the river in Wapping. Wood panelling, dark corners and uneven stone floors help to make it one of the city’s most atmospheric old drinking dens. Indeed, it seems hardly to have changed since the days of dock workers and deckhands.
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The Prospect of Whitby
57 Wapping WallIf you've ever taken a boat up the Thames, you'll have probably noticed a scaffold and hangman's noose outside an appealingly aged tavern by the Wapping riverside. It’s a grim reminder of Execution Dock, a nearby gallows where many a pirate met his end (yes, really). And the tavern in question is the Prospect of Whitby, London’s oldest riverside pub and the best of three by the river in Wapping. Wood panelling, dark corners and uneven stone floors help to make it one of the city’s most atmospheric old drinking dens. Indeed, it seems hardly to have changed since the days of dock workers and deckhands.
As far as locations go, The Turk's Head has got it pretty good. Not only are they a five-minute walk to Wapping station, they're even closer to Waterside Gardens, which overlooks the Thames, and they're situated on the edge of Wapping Gardens. Now owned by a charitable trust who restored it in the 1980s, the original building was once famous for being the local inn where the last quart of ale was served to condemned pirates on their way from Newgate to the Execution Dock (now home to Wapping station).
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The Turk's Head
1 Green BankAs far as locations go, The Turk's Head has got it pretty good. Not only are they a five-minute walk to Wapping station, they're even closer to Waterside Gardens, which overlooks the Thames, and they're situated on the edge of Wapping Gardens. Now owned by a charitable trust who restored it in the 1980s, the original building was once famous for being the local inn where the last quart of ale was served to condemned pirates on their way from Newgate to the Execution Dock (now home to Wapping station).
Long and narrow it may be, but the Grade II-listed Town of Ramsgate is bright, friendly and open. The food includes own-made cream of tomato soup, and beef, beetroot and mozzarella salad, while the bar continues to earn plaudits for the quality of its guest and constant real ales. Hoegaarden, Leffe and Peroni are on draught for those who favour a continental brew; wine-lovers plump for Tin Roof shiraz or Marlborough sauvignon blanc.
Out back, the bijou, decked terrace delights the lucky punters who manage to grab a table in summer, watching the moorhens as the tide slaps against the stone steps leading down to the Thames from the adjacent alleyway.
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Town of Ramsgate
62 Wapping High StLong and narrow it may be, but the Grade II-listed Town of Ramsgate is bright, friendly and open. The food includes own-made cream of tomato soup, and beef, beetroot and mozzarella salad, while the bar continues to earn plaudits for the quality of its guest and constant real ales. Hoegaarden, Leffe and Peroni are on draught for those who favour a continental brew; wine-lovers plump for Tin Roof shiraz or Marlborough sauvignon blanc.
Out back, the bijou, decked terrace delights the lucky punters who manage to grab a table in summer, watching the moorhens as the tide slaps against the stone steps leading down to the Thames from the adjacent alleyway.