Anne’s guidebook (restaurants / walk / thing to do)

The area of Kings Cross has been renovated recently and features a few good restaurants / bars: - In the Kings Cross area / Granary area (walk north of Regent's canal): -- Dishoom (indian restaurant, expect 45 min queueing, 5 Stable St, N1C 4AB) -- Caravan (world food, same re queueing, 1 Granary Square, N1C 4AA ) -- Granger, (excellent food, 1, Stanley Building, 7 Pancras Square, N1C 4AG) - Kimchee, korean food (2 Pancras Rd, N1C 4AG) - More near Kings Cross -- low-key Thai place at budget price, Paolina Cuisine, 181 King's Cross Rd, WC1X 9BZ Good coffee places - Notes Coffee (Pancras Rd, N1C 4AG) Traditional pub - McGlynn's Free House, Down to earth, very British (1-5 Whidborne St, WC1H 8ET) Bakery - Papy's breads, best croissant in London! 279 Grays Inn Rd, WC1X 8QF *** Close-by areas in London - Exmouth market in Clerkenwell (EC1R 4QD) is 10 min bus away (not worth walking, busy road with no charm), features a lot of bars. My favourite restaurants: Mojo (north-african food), Mojito, and The Wilmington pub (EC1R 4RL), Cucina Povera, The Quality Chop House ( a bit more expensive), Santore, and another Caravan! - Angel (a lot of restaurants and bar, you can go there by walking along Regents canal towards the east after 15 min walk) - a lot of chains, not so many independent places. Wagamama is good money for value Asian meal. - Franco manca / pizza pilgrim, excellent and cheap pizzas. a dream come true

North of my place is Regents Canal, - on the west it offers a nice 2-hour walk to Camden, Regents Park (you arrive at the top between Primrose Hill and the park), then Little Venice - on the east, it goes to Angel a lovely area, (it goes underground for 10 min walk and then continues east to Hoxton, Dalston, Broadway market (lively on Saturday), Columbia Flower Market (livley on Sundays) and Victoria park (approx 2 hours). You can continue all the way down to Canary Wharf (another 2 / 3 hours)

If you would like to book a musical for your stay, below a few popular ones: (-) Lion King (-) Mama Mia (-) 42nd street - the story of an american 50s dancing show (-) Matilda based on Roald Dahl story (-) other popular shows include Les Misérables, Wicked (adaptation of the Wizard of Oz), Hamilton (I watched it - you need a strong English - even better if you know some American hip hop vocabulary!). (-) I also watched the Book of Mormon, a good laugh but a bit overrated. (-) For Harry Potter, you need to book well in advance 2 3-hour tickets (-)(-) You can rely on last minute ticker but the best shows wont be available. Best is to book something during the week, will be less expensive than during the weekend.