EVERY hidden gem Londoners DON’T want tourists to know [FULL LIST]

EVERY hidden gem Londoners DON’T want tourists to know [FULL LIST]

Hello from London. Okay, I’ve lived in London for 10 years. I’ve got friends that have lived here for even longer than that. And part of the advantage of living here versus what you guys are doing, visiting, is that we get loads of time to explore the nooks and crannies of this city. And that’s part of what I think makes me very good at my job. But sometimes us Londoners find things and places that we think are so good, it’s sometimes tempting to hide them from the tourists because we want to keep them for ourselves. But in this video, we are going to stop the gatekeeping. And I’m going to tell you about some places that Londoners love, but sometimes we’re like, maybe we can’t tell the tourist. So come along. I think you’re going to really like these places. They’re a bit more adventurous and fun and we’ll get some good treats along the way as well. So, let’s go. [Music] This is Camden Passage, a pedestrianized super cute shopping street here in Islington, an area that tourists often don’t come to. This is different from Camden Lock and Camden Market, which are super wellknown to tourists and quite frankly, I don’t think are that great. Camden Passage is actually more popular with locals that live in the area and it’s also where a lot of antiques shows film. This is a 1969 original vintage London Underground diagram of lines tube map. That is very cool. That’s like a really special gift if you have someone who loves London back at home. [Music] There are lots of great brickandmortar cafes, shops, and restaurants here that are open basically every day. But if you come on a Wednesday or a Saturday, that’s when you’re going to find the antiques market, vintage market, and another market that just sells a whole bunch of stuff. So, those are great days to come. There’s also some stalls that will be open Thursdays and Fridays, but Wednesday and Saturday is the main fuzz, the main deal, and Wednesday is always going to be quieter than a Saturday. So, personally, I recommend coming on a Wednesday. That’s when we’re here. [Music] I really like this little shop, Pistachio and Pickle Dairy. They do like British cheeses, but they do these toasties that you can smell from down the passage, and they are so good. Cheese and chili jam. And that’s what I got. Oh man, that is cheesy. [Music] The next place I’m going to show you is where you can go for some really tasty chocolate that you can take home to family and friends if you don’t eat it before you get home. This is Dark Sugars, a chocolate shop opened by a Ghian woman named Nianga, who started with a stall selling truffles in Burough Market. And she did so well that she opened up three brickandmortar shops. And this is the OG location here on Brick Lane. I love this shop because you can smell the rich chocolate as you pass by. It’s like drawing you into it. The chocolate here is amazing. Everything is handmade on location with chocolate that is from Danga’s family’s farm in Ghana. So, this is like really, really good stuff. Also, I’ll be honest, no Londoners are really trying to gateep this place, but I just kind of wanted an excuse to feature them and also to have a reason to come and get some chocolate. So, let’s go into the shop and I’ll show you what I think is best thing to order in there. [Music] I’ll take one of the classic hot chocolates. Okay. With normal milk and chocolate shavings. Ooh. Um I’ll do actually oat milk. That would be great. Yeah. And chocolate shavings, too. Yeah. Thank you. [Music] One of my favorite things to get here and also one of the things they’re most famous for at Dark Sugars is their decadent hot chocolate. It is made with Ghanian chocolate and they put these shavings on the top and it is just so rich and so delicious. [Music] If you find yourself getting a little bit tired while you’re doing your touristing around London, we have so many incredible green spaces where you can go relax, take a load off your feet, or just hang out and explore. And one of those great green spaces is Camley Street Park right here in Cold Drops Yard in King’s Cross, right next to Regent’s Canal. This place is amazing because it’s a nature reserve right in the middle of one of the busiest parts of London, right next to Regent’s Canal, but actually because it’s a little bit off the beaten path, a lot of Londoners don’t even know about it. But it is a beautiful green space to come visit. It’s crazy because you don’t really feel like you’re in Buzzy King Cross while you’re in here. This is where all the coal from the north of England would come before it got distributed out to London to get burned. And once coal was banned, then this area actually went into disrepair until 1985 when a regeneration of this area began. Then we got Family Street Park. And a few years ago, Cole Drops Yard popped up, which is a development of restaurants, shops, cafes. We’ve talked about it a lot on this channel. It is a great spot to come if you’re in the area. We’re also right next to Regent’s Canal, so you could pair a visit here with a nice long walk up the canal, past Camden to Regent’s Park, or you could go the opposite way and make your way to Victoria Park. This place is really familyfriendly. So, if you want to bring the kids here, there’s activity books. They do special family events. And it’s just nice and open for children to do a little bit of running around and exploring. This spot is right in central London in Coven Garden, and it’s kind of like a little break away from the buzziest part of the city. I’m a little hesitant to tell people about it, but we’re not gatekeeping in this video. So, here we go. We’re actually at the top of the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. If you go all the way to the top of the stairs and the escalators, you will find the terrace bar where we are now. And it is absolutely beautiful. You get to look over Coven Garden. There’s greenery everywhere. You can come up here and order champagne, cocktails. You can even bring up coffee in the morning. And it’s actually doesn’t get that crowded considering what a great, beautiful space this is. There’s actually a lot of places that you can eat and drink throughout the Royal Opera House. They even have a beautiful restaurant. But you don’t have to have a ticket to a show to come up here. It’s open from 12:00 basically every day, but I would recommend that you pair a visit here with a tour of the Royal Opera House, which they put on almost every day of the week. Many of you have watched one of my videos. Raise your hand. [Music] It’s very hard to find the entrance to Franks if you’ve never been. So, he complex. Then it’s over here. [Music] There you go. [Music] I mean, the underall sour sounds lovely. [Music] Oh, that’s tasty. We’ve covered a lot of rooftops on this YouTube channel, and I personally absolutely love them. But most rooftops in London come with hefty price tags on the cocktails. So, if that’s not going to work for you, we’ve actually got a great place. We are here at Frank’s Cafe, which is in Peekom in South London, and this is a local favorite. This is a bar at the top of a disused car park. And Londoners love to come here on a sunny day for good cocktails, good food, good views, good vibes, and good prices. Can’t beat them. This is a communityrun space, and the not for-profit group that run it actually help emerging artists who create amazing art installations up here on the rooftop right next to the cafe. So definitely check those out once you’ve grabbed a cocktail and see some really cool art. It’s kind of like a two for one deal. You can actually see a lot from up here. There’s the Shard, the walkie-talkie building with the Sky Garden at the top. St. Paul’s is in the distance. The London Eye is over there. And over to the right is Canary Wararf, which is the financial district. Franks is only open from Wednesday to Sunday during the summer months. So in the UK that’s May to September because nobody really wants to drink a pims in the rain. I mean two yards never stopped a British person before. But during the summer on a sunny day, this is one of the vibiest places that you will find in all of London. It gets pretty crazy. I’ll give you a couple more things that you can do while you’re down here in Pekkham. Right at the bottom of this building is Peekimplex, which is an independent cinema, and they have some of the cheapest cinema tickets in the entire city. They’re usually around5, so you can go see a film there, or if you prefer to watch something outdoors. Right over there is a rooftop screen where you can see cinema out in the outdoors. It’s called the rooftop film club. They show films a couple of times a week when the weather is good. So, there you go. Got a couple more things you can do when you’re in Pekkham. It’s such a cool place that I’m so sad that more tourists don’t come here. There’s such cool stuff going on here. Okay, there’s honestly no way that I can morning from London. As you probably know, this city is filled with so much history. And I want to show you some of it, but not the stuff that you can find all over the internet, but rather some of the hidden gems that people walk past every single day. And I have no idea how much history is behind them. I’m also going to have a couple of friends show you some of their favorite historic spots around the city. So, let’s go. We’re now in the city of London, also known as city, which is generally known as the financial part of the city. So, you’ll find lots of tall gray buildings with people inside crunching away some numbers. But in between the rivers and great tower street is St. Dunston in the east. Let me show you. [Music] Back in the 12th century, a beautiful church was built on this land which then unfortunately was destroyed during the Great Fire of London. Then in 1700, they rebuilt the church and Sir Christopher Ren added a steeple as well. Unfortunately, it was damaged again during the Blitz. However, the steeple and a few other parts did survive. In 1967, this became a public park, which means that anyone who does know about it gets to come in and enjoy the beauty whenever they want. And this place is often considered an ode to the resilience of London’s monuments and buildings. We’re now in Bloomsbury in central London and I’m here with Becky from the tour company Women of London and she’s going to tell us a little bit about the place that we’re in now and a couple of historical gems that you can’t miss if you stumble across this area. Hi. Perfect. Let’s do it. Let’s go. Yeah. So, I picked Gordon Square. Um, Bloomsbury has a lot of different squares, neighborhoods, and people used to use them as private gardens. Um, that most of them are now open to the public. And what I like about this one is it’s right close to such a busy area in London. So, you’ve got Tottenham Court Road just over there. You’ve got King’s Cross with the British Library and the big station over there. And on a really nice day, you can see it’s just a moment of peace. And, you know, there’s a bit of wildlife. There’s a lot of history in this area. You know, all the houses near here have blue plaques to people who used to live here, literary figures, artists, and things like that. Uh, and I just feel like you can take a moment to kind of appreciate all the other people that used to kind of hang out here. So, this is the memorial to Noria Khan, um, whose family lived just up the road from, uh, Gordon Square. She actually spent time in the gardens while she was here studying, writing books. Um and she was recruited during World War II to become one of the uh undercover spies that was shipped over to France. She spent uh just over a year there. Um was unfortunately arrested by the Gustapo and sadly executed at Deau concentration camp. Um so in 2012 there was a call for a memorial to this woman for the sacrifice that she gave. Um and this was the memorial they came up with. So if you come to Gordon Square and you don’t stop at Nor Memorial, you’ve missed in my opinion the best thing about Gordon Square. So, as well as the larger memorials that you’ll find in squares like this, there are also these small ones to more locals who lived in and around Gordon Square. This bench um has one to Ben Cohen and Myrtle Cohen, you know, locals that probably live just off the square here. So, it’s always worth kind of stopping at the small benches and having a look at who it’s dedicated to. Now, if you want to come explore Gordon Square with Becky, you can do so via her tour, Women of Bloomsbury, which you can book by clicking the link down in the description box of the video. And she’s great, so definitely join. And she’s got other tours that are great, too. The next hidden historic gem is tucked away from the hustle and bustle of Mayfair, but can be very easy to miss. Two world famous musicians actually lived right next to each other in Mayfair, but they were separated by a couple hundred years. Jimmyi Hendris and the composer George Frederick Hondell lived right next to each other. And to preserve this very interesting history, their flats have been turned into the Hondel and Hendricks Museum. You can now go there and see recreations of what their places looked like when they lived there and also learn about these famous musicians and their time living in London. If you like music and a little bit of time travel, this is a great museum for you to visit. We are now in Soho and I have brought you here to see a water pump. Stick with me here. This water pump is really important when it comes to the history of medicine. So back in the 19th century, Europe was dealing with some crazy diseases, including chalera. Enter Jon Snow, a physician who was tasked with trying to find out how chalera was spreading in England. Through his investigations, he was able to trace an outbreak in Soho, which killed 500 people in just 10 days, to one specific water pump, the Broad Street pump. As soon as they shut the pump off, they stopped the spread of chalera and saved tons of lives in this area. These days, you can see this memorial pump and you can see the red brick that shows exactly where the original pump was. And even better than all of this is the fact that Jon Snow is commemorated right behind John, who’s behind the camera, in his very own pub called Jon Snow. So, after you have checked out the pump, you can go in and have a pint and celebrate all the good he did for this city. By the way, if it’s your first time visiting London, I have a free London 101 guide that has everything that you need to know before you get here. So, make sure you grab that again for free by clicking the link in the description box of the video. Okay, let’s go back to the hidden historic gems. Now we’re in Burmany, one of my favorite areas in all of London. There are lots of little cafes that you can stop in and get a coffee at around here. But there’s one in particular that we’re going to go to that has an interesting and somewhat dark past. This is the Watch House, now a posh cafe, this building dates back to the 1800s as part of the church next door, St. Mary Magdalene. Along with the church was a graveyard and the watch house was where the men that were hired to watch out for grave robbers would take shelter. And grave robbing was apparently a pretty big problem back then. These days you can go inside and have a coffee and a pastry and admire the cozy historic structure while you’re at it. Or you can go next door to the graveyard which is now a beautiful public park for everyone to enjoy. There’s the watch house. There’s the church. All the dead bodies that didn’t get robbed because of the people who were in the watch house. We’re now just a few minutes away from St. Paul’s Cathedral and we’re going to enter this beautiful garden that has a special hidden gem in it that makes it stand out from the rest of the green spaces in the area. So, let me show you. This is Postman’s Park, named after the postmen that worked at the nearby old general post office that would come here on their lunch breaks. These days, this park is still a popular lunch spot for people who work in the area and that know about it, especially in the spring and summer because it is beautifully maintained. All the flowers are in bloom and we are visiting in the dead of winter, so you do kind of have to use your imagination a little bit. The most special thing about this park, however, is just over here. Behind me is Watts Memorial to heroic self silk self self to heroic silk sacrifice. Selfac behind me is the Watts Memorial to heroic self-sacrifice which is built in 1900. It is a wall of 54 plaques commemorating 62 people who lost their lives trying to save someone else’s. The earliest case is 1863 and the most recent is in 2007. So when you come to Postman’s Park, make sure you go and read some of the stories of these everyday heroes. So here’s an example. Ellen Donovan of Lincoln Court in Great Wild Street rushed into a burning house to save a neighbor’s children and she unfortunately passed away doing that. And that was July 28th, 1873. Long time ago. How are you? Nice to see you. We are in Spittlefields now and I have got Ellie here. She runs the tour company called Rebel Tours and she’s going to take us around the corner to one of her favorite historic hidden gems around here. So, should we go? Yeah, let’s do it. Well, I chose Fornia Street as my little hidden gem because I think that you look at the houses here, they are some of the I think most beautifully restored and well-kept Georgian houses that we have in London and the area has such a fantastic history. The beautiful row of houses that we have today, they were mainly built around the year 1720 for or rented by master silk weavers. So a little indication of that is above on the buildings here. You’ve got the lovely kind of little bob in there that hangs off just kind of letting you know of the the heritage of the buildings as well. So usually the silk weavers or silk mercers also leased the buildings. They would have their showrooms on the bottom floor which is you know still today some of these windows are open and they’ve got lovely displays in the windows so you could see all the lovely things on offer. And then the upstairs windows uh there were letting in a lot of light which was perfect for the looms. So plenty of room and plenty of light for the actual weaving itself. We do have a lot of what we call ghost signs all over London, but we have a lot in the East End. So this would be an example of a ghost sign. It’s just a sign for the business that used to be here. Obviously that’s no longer here. But this one is interesting because it shows us um the shift I suppose and the changing population of the east end. I believe that this was a man called Simon Schwartz, but I think that this used to be a dairy. There used to be like a little yard here with an actual cow. And a little bit further down where we stopped before, there was another ghost sign for uh Kira, who’s also a Jewish banana merchant as well. Yeah. So, I love seeing these little signs kind of dotted around and Yeah. And if I can, I’ll research them and try to find out like what they used to be. Thank you for showing this spot, Ellie. Um, and people can actually come here on a tour with you. That’s right. You can. Now, I talked a little bit about Forier Street, but on the tour, we talk about much, much more. The tour is actually called Jack the Ripper. What about the women? Because in the East End, we have a fascinating history, but we do live in the shadow of the White Chapel murders. So, on my tour, uh, you’ll learn about the women at the center of the story, about their fascinating lives, and just in general about what life was like back here in the Victorian East End. Hello from London. Listen, here at Love in London, we love telling you guys about great places you can eat and drink that the locals love here. However, there are some places that are so good that Londoners just want to gatekeep them, keep them to ourselves so the tourists don’t know about it. But in this video, we are not doing that. We’re going to take you to some places that Londoners love so much and don’t want the tourists to know about. But we’re going to take you anyway, so you can eat and drink well, too. So, let’s go. [Music] First up, we’ve come to Mavil in West London to Cafe Lavll. And if you’ve ever wanted to romanticize your life while you sip a flat white and look over the beautiful Regent’s Canal, this is the perfect place to do it. So come on. So this is not only a cafe, but it’s also an Italian restaurant where they serve pasta, pizza, fkatcha sandwiches. So, I have gone for a cappuccino and a tiramisu, which I’m waiting to dive into. We’re in a very local area that honestly tourists don’t come to very often. So, it’s a lovely relaxed neighborhood feel in here. And if you come to visit, you can have your coffee and then we’re right on Regent’s Canal, so you could go in either direction and see some of the most beautiful parts of London. Oh, look at that. So, if you go up that direction on the canal, then you get to Paddington and Paddington Basin where there’s some lovely cafes and restaurants and there is even a cafe restaurant on a boat which we have covered in our West London guide. So, watch that video next. [Music] Next up, we are in Spittlefields, but not the part that the tourists are usually in. Over by the market, over where the locals usually are. And I’m going to show you this place behind me, which is called the Coal Pepper. And the Coal Pepper is a pub, a restaurant, and it has a rooftop garden where you can have drinks. Not only can you get good food, good drinks, and a good atmosphere here, there’s also an amazing sustainability aspect to this place. So, come on in. I’m going to show you. [Music] Thank you. Okay, the food in this pub is so so good. So, I have had these two dishes before. This is the anali with nuts and other delicious things. There’s pumpkin in there as well. And then this is the um mushroom orto. I remember both of these being absolutely amazing. I also went for the palenta fries, palenta strips with a lovely green sauce on the side. And this is I think my favorite pub to eat in in all of London. It just has top-notch food. We are here during the week for lunch. So, we’re downstairs, but if you come on a weekend for lunch or you come for dinner, you will book a table up in the dining room, which is absolutely stunning. I highly recommend getting up there. They also have a fabulous rooftop where you can come for drinks and to check out the amazing sustainability part of this place. They actually grow loads of their own veggies and herbs up here that they use in their food. So, if you come here to eat, it’s super likely you’ll eat something that was grown literally on the roof of the restaurant. [Music] Okay, my next recommendation isn’t for just one place, but loads of really cool breweries, bars, and distilleries in one of my favorite areas of the city, Burmany. There’s a roughly onem stretch called the Burmany Beer Mile, where you can go on a really cool pub crawl and try loads of locally brewed beers, gins, and even mead. It’s such a cool way of both exploring Bourbon in Southeast London and trying out local drinks. I’m actually not going to start off with a drink, but I’m going to a street food market nearby called Maltby Street Market to get something to soak up the booze. A lot of the bars around here are only really open on a Saturday afternoon, so you’ll join loads of other groups of Londoners doing the same mileong stretch. Maybe you’ll make some local friends along the way. And there’s no official guide on how to do it. It’s a really organic, unofficial route carved by locals over the years. Distilleries and breweries open and closed, so it’s always a little bit different. Right now, there’s somewhere around 20 breweries and distilleries you can go to, but that number will probably look different when you visit. There’s loads of variety, so you’ll be able to choose a route that works best for you. Even if you’re a pretty big drinker, you won’t be able to hit all of them. Our next location is a speak easy bar here in Shortitch in East London. And this is a great place to come if you want a really experiential, cool night out in London. Right next to me is a very unassuming door, but if you push it open and you head down the stairs, you will end up in Lounge Bohemia. This is a tiny intimate bar that is by appointment only that does the most experimental and special cocktails I think in the entire city. [Music] This cocktail is called the Canadian breakfast and it was basically made in front of us. came with little pancakes with blueberries, but then on the side there was a granita that was then mixed with this maple syrup concoction and it made a little breakfast smoothie. Oo. [Music] [Music] They have a super interesting menu with so many choices, no matter what kind of drink you like. Or if you really want to make a night of it, you can do one of their tasting menus. Now, like I said, this place is really tiny, so you do need to book in advance. And they do have one rule, no suits. [Music] We’ve made it down to Brixton in South London. And behind me is Chip Shop, which is a restaurant, bar, and live music venue. And it’s quite famous because it’s had some pretty major rappers perform here like Clashnikov and Ice Tea. They also do community-based open mic nights. And they help to support the local upand cominging talent in the area. It’s called Chip Shop because the owners wanted to combine the two things that they love, hiphop and fish and chips. So, you can actually go in here and still get fish and chips as well as a load of other comfort food like loaded nachos, burgers, vegetarian fish and chips, tons of stuff. So, you’re going to come here, get some good food, get some drinks, and have amazing buzzy vibes. If you go to any of the places that we talked about in this video, be sure to tag us on Instagram so we can see. And of course, check out the casual tourist guides which are linked in the description box of the video. 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Camden Passage
Camden Passage Vintage Markets
Pistachio and Pickle Dairy
Dark Sugars
Camley Street Park
Royal Opera House Terrace Bar
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Frank’s Cafe
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St Dunstan in the East
Gordon Square Garden
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The Broad Street Pump
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The Watchhouse Bermondsey
Postman’s Park
Fournier Street
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Cafe Laville
Best things to do in West London video (cafe on a boat): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsQ_HifpfZQ
The Culpeper
Bermondsey Beer Mile
Maltby Street Market
Lounge Bohemia
Chip Shop
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