Restaurants in Chinatown and
the West End of London

The West End of London with it's theatres, cinemas, museums, galleries, restaurants, clubs and pubs is a magnet for visitors for near and far. They come to see a show or film, have a good meal and to go clubbing.   The West End is a place of extremes where world class theatres, museums and galleries rub shoulder with tacky tourist traps. Trafalgar Square is the closest you'll get to the heart of London. Towering this busy place is the 50m tall Nelson's Column celebrating Napoleon's defeat at sea in 1805. The column and the four bronze lions to its foot were designed by Landseer and attract tourists and pigeons in equal numbers. The National Galleries impressive facade stretches along the entire north side of Trafalgar Square. The National Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery are open for the public from Monday to Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm except Wednesdays, when it closes at 8 pm, and Sunday from 2 to 6 pm.  Leaving  Trafalgar Square in to the north we find Leicester Square. Leicester Square is surrounded on all four sides by cinemas like the Empire and the Odeon. Many of the West End's club can be found here, like the famous Hippodrome. To the north of Leicester Square lies Chinatown with hundreds of Restaurants and shops, the focal point is the pedestrinanized Gerrard Street, but many other good Restaurants can be found in the surrounding street. Lisle Street, hiding behind the Empire, has a nice selection of Chinese and Japanese Restaurants you can try.  Shaftbury Avenue with it's theaters forms the northern border to the neighboring Soho. To the West of Shaftbury Avenue and Chinatown lies Piccadilly Circus, world famous for it's neon lights and the statue of Eros the god of love. 
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Restaurants in Islington N1 
Take a walk with us down Upper Street

Islington is one of London's most exciting and vibrant areas, filled with Restaurants, Cafes and Theatres that thrive alongside a young and modern Business Community. Upper Street, stretching from Highbury & Islington in the north to Angel in the south, lies in the center of this lively London borough.  With 11 theatres Islington has the biggest concentration of theatres outside London's West End of these the Sadler’s Wells is the best known. Eating out or going out, no problem Islington has a different places to eat and drink for every day of the year. The design shops, art and crafts galleries and workshops, the street markets, clubs and music venue round up this lively and friendly part of London.
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