Rainforest Café

Where kids can go wild

This huge family restaurant, which can seat up to 355 customers, has a theme that can be appreciated by all ages – although you may wonder what you are doing sitting on a stool that looks like giraffe legs, eating a 'leaping lizard mezze' with a gorilla staring at you....

London Eye

Fly over London in the London Eye

Built in 2000, the London Eye was originally only going to stand for a few years, but Londoners immediately saw it as an iconic landmark, a symbol of modern London with a right to its place on the capital's skyline....

British Museum

Officially the country's most popular tourist attraction, the British Museum is a neoclassical marvel that was built in 1847 by Robert Smirke, one of the pioneers of the Greek Revival style....

Hayward

Casual visitors to the Hayward can hang out in the new industrial-look café downstairs (which becomes a bar at night), aptly called Concrete, before visiting the free contemporary exhibitions at the inspired Hayward Project Space – take the stairs to the first floor from the glass foyer extension....

A Gold

A Gold was flying the flag for British foods long before it became fashionable to do so....

Gordon's

Gordon's is hardly à la mode....

Pizza Express Jazz Club

The upstairs restaurant (7437 9595) is jazz-free, but the 120-capacity basement venue is one of Europe's best modern mainstream jazz venues....