In London you can sample food from anywhere in the world. The city boasts excellent eateries serving everything from Ethiopian to Peruvian cuisine, but right now traditional British food is having something of a revival, showcasing the best seasonal ingredients the isles have to offer.
St John (26 St John Street, Smithfield) specializes in the kind of bizarrely named cuts of meat your grandparents knew and loved. The ever-changing menu has included chitterlings and dandelion greens, pigeon and trotter pie, and roast bone marrow and parsley salad. If the unusual menu were just a gimmick the novelty would soon wear off; instead, this is superb British cooking, re-imagined for the 21st century. A revelation.
Run by a former St John chef, Hereford Road (3 Hereford Road, Bayswater) is an unfussy, unassuming eating space. The food may also sound unassuming (think British classics like potted crab, pheasant or oxtail) but it is assured, imaginative and consistently excellent. 
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