Address: 17- 18 Tooks Court, London EC4A 1LB Telephone: 020 7242 2622 Website: http://www.vanillablack.co.uk Description: Posh vegetarian – food is great. One to go to for a birthday treat. Three venues locally.
Address: 22 High Holborn, London WC1V 6BN Telephone: 020 7242 7670 Website: http://www.timeout.com/london/bars-pubs/cittie-of-yorke Description: Pub on High Holborn near Chancery Lane with lovely booths and woodwork that give it a medieval feel.
Address: 4 High Holborn, London WC1V 6DR Telephone: 020 7405 5246 Website: http://www.robertdyas.co.uk/ Description: A home furnishing store good to buy home basics. Not as cheap as Ikea or Argos, but good quality. They do student discounts.
Address: 11 Sicilian Avenue, London WC1A 2QH Telephone: 020 7831 2715 Website: http://www.orchard-kitchen.co.uk Description: Posh vegetarian – food is great. One to go to for a birthday treat. They have three other venues locally.
Address: 71 High Holborn, London WC1V 6EA Telephone: 020 7430 0956 Website: http://www.kimchee.uk.com/ Description: A Korean restaurant just down Lamb’s conduit at High Holborn. It is popular and regularly packed so make sure to arrive early or book ahead.
Address: 33 Boswell Street, London, WC1N 3BP Telephone: 020 7242 2434 Website: http://www.laporchetta.net Description: On Boswell Street not far from the college. It is quiet and cosy and the food is nice and tasty.
Address: 95 Chancery Lane, London WC2A 1DT Telephone: 020 7831 2660 Website: http://www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk Description: Pub near the Courts of Justice with good beer. Is full of barristers until 7 o’clock, but then is empty.
Address: 35-43 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3PE Telephone: 020 7869 6560 Website: http://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums/hunterian Description: Museum managed by the Royal College of Surgeons. Free.
Address: Victoria House, 37-63 Southampton Row, London WC1B 4DA Telephone: 020 7404 7079 Website: http://www.hbros.co.uk/ Description: A chain of cheap, good value and healthy restaurants offering up a range of hummus-based dishes. Three nearby outlets at Holborn, Exmouth Market and Soho.
Address: Barnard’s Inn Hall, London EC1N 2HH Telephone: 020 7831 0575 Website: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/ Description: Glorified think thank off High Holborn. Offers lectures at lunch and in the evenings.
Address: 71 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3JF Telephone: 020 7691 1457 Website: http://www.fleetriverbakery.com/ Description: A small café near Holborn Station, LSE and the Queen Mary Centre for Commercial Legal Studies. It serves up delicious hot lunches in huge portions with healthy salads on the side, tasty and fresh sandwiches and mouthwatering baked goods. The scone with clotted cream is particularly decadent.
Address: 3 Procter Street, London WC1V 6DW Telephone: 0207 269 7070 Website: http://www.cyclesurgery.com/ Description: Good store for bikes and accessories. Also do repairs.
Address: 199-206 High Holborn, London WC1V 7BD Telephone: 020 7661 3040 Website: http://www.chickenshop.com/holborn Description: Very delicious roast chicken (better than Nando’s although less choice in terms of hotness). 1/4 of a chicken and one side is enough for one person and costs £9.
Address: 121 Holborn, London EC1N 2TD Telephone: 020 3657 6525 Website: www.bouncepingpong.com/ Description: The ultimate ping-pong bar, they have over 40 tables (have to be booked in advance at an hourly rate), provide rackets and balls for players. Late evening, whilst keeping the ping-pong players, it turns into a dance bar, with mostly contemporary RnB music. Really amazing and unique place, if you like table tennis it is a must to try. Booking tables is pretty expensive, but they always have a few community ones open for people who just wander in.
Address: 5 Grays Inn Road, London WC1X 8PH Telephone: 0345 1657221 Website: http://www.argos.co.uk/ Description: A cheap store where everything is ordered through the catalogue, nothing is displayed in store. Good for cheap home furnishings.