Taste map · 138 dishes · 170 kitchens
London on a plate
The dishes we'd send you across London for, each with the kitchen that makes it. Every place passed the same rules, and nobody paid to be here.
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Three to begin London with
The plates most of our kitchens make, and the city's heritage dishes, first.
Pies and suet puddings
London's pie-and-mash and pub classics: meat under suet or shortcrust, fish under mash.
London heritage · Pie, mash and liquor
Fish and chips
White fish battered and fried, with chips — cod, haddock and rock (huss), the London chippy fish.
Lamb chops
Lamb chops grilled, often over charcoal — from London's Punjabi grills to Rome's scottadito.
The sit-down dishes
Plates & bowls
116 dishes
Bites, tapas, sandwiches and dumplings
Small plates & street bites
11 dishes
Breads, pastries, cakes and preserves
Bakes & sweets
8 dishes
Coffee, wine and beer
Pours
3 dishes
From the register
London's tastes on the record
The London Museum keeps the story of the East End's eel, pie and mash shops, and the UK protects one London name — the capital's first protected food. The ones below have no LocalBite kitchen yet; when one passes our rules, it joins the map above.
London Museum · London's pie & mash shops ↗2/3covered by a LocalBite kitchen
London Cure Smoked Salmon
H. Forman & Son's east London smoked salmon — the first smoked salmon anywhere with a protected name
East London
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Across cities
One dish, every kitchen we'd send you to
Dishes more than one of our kitchens make — compare them side by side, city by city.
42 dishes with kitchens in London.
Lamb chops
Lamb chops grilled, often over charcoal — from London's Punjabi grills to Rome's scottadito.
8 in London · 2 elsewhere →
Pies and suet puddings
London's pie-and-mash and pub classics: meat under suet or shortcrust, fish under mash.
8 in London · 1 elsewhere →
Fish and chips
White fish battered and fried, with chips — cod, haddock and rock (huss), the London chippy fish.
7 in London · 1 elsewhere →
Cacio e pepe
Rome's pasta of pecorino cheese and black pepper, tossed with a little cooking water into a sauce.
6 in London · 1 elsewhere →
Pasta with ragù
Fresh pasta with a slow-cooked meat sauce — Bologna's ragù and the beef, boar and veal versions it inspired.
5 in London · 2 elsewhere →
Pici
Thick, hand-rolled Tuscan pasta, like fat spaghetti.
5 in London →