London Restaurants guide
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Restaurants in London and Around the World
There are various types of restaurants . Restaurants fall into several industry classification based upon menu style, preparati...

London Restaurants …. Fast casual-dining.
Family-style restaurant is often used to describe chains such as US-based Denny's and IHOP that serve mild breakfast -style foods...

London Restaurants ….Bistros and brasserie
In the UK , a brasserie is a café doubling as a restaurant and serving single dishes and other meals in a relaxed setting. A bistro...

London Restaurants …. Casual dining
A casual dining restaurant is a London restaurant that serves moderately-priced food in a casual atmosphere. Exc..

London Restaurants ….Fine dining Fine dining or posh restaurants are full service London restaurants with specific dedicated meal courses. Décor of su...

London Restaurants ….Café
Cafés and coffee shops are informal restaurants offering a range of hot meals and made-to-order sandwi...

London Restaurants ….Cafeterias
A cafeteria is a London restaurant serving mostly ready-cooked food arranged behind a food-serving counter. There...

London Restaurants ….Coffee Shop
Coffee Shop are popular casual restaurants without table service that emphasize coffee and other beverages; typically...

London Pubs ….Pub
Mainly in the UK and other countries influenced by British culture, a pub (short for public house) is a bar...

London Beer Houses and the 1830 Beer Act
By the early 1800s and encouraged by a lowering of duties on gin, the gin houses or “Gin Palaces” had spread...

Licensing and records
The Wine and Beerhouse Act 1869 reintroduced the stricter controls of the previous century. The sale of beers...

UK opening hours and regulation
From the middle of the 19th century restrictions were placed on the opening hours of licensed premises in the UK. These...

Games and sports
Traditional games are played in pubs, ranging from the well-known darts, skittles, dominoes, cards and...

London Restaurants and Pubs .... Food
Traditionally pubs in England were drinking establishments and little emphasis was placed on the serving of food , usually...

Signs
In 1393 King Richard II compelled landlords to erect signs outside their premises. The legislation stated...

Names
Many names for pubs that appear nonsensical may have come from corruptions of older names or phrases...

Tied houses and free houses in Britain
After the development of the large London Porter breweries in the 18th century , the trend grew for pubs to become tied houses...

London Restaurant and Pub Companies and chains
Organisations such as Wetherspoons and the Eerie Pub Company , were formed in the UK since changes in legislation in...

Spirit Grocers
Prior to the 1960s and the arrival of supermarket and grocery chain stores in the country Irish pubs usually operated as a...