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United Kingdom » Dining in London
Compared to southern Europe, the quality of British restaurants is still highly variable, especially outside London. Despite the recent popularity of celebrity chefs and a surge in restaurant culture, many Britons still eat to live rather than live to eat, which is reflected in the outlets catering for them. If you simply pick a place at random, you may be lucky and find it delicious, but you're also running the risk of being served a fat drenched, overpriced microwave ready meal. 
The mere fact that many restaurants advertise "food freshly prepared on premises" as a major selling point suggests that British food still has some way to go. But high quality and even world-class outlets can be found at reasonable prices if you put some effort into researching them. Many restaurants in city centres tend to be a little more expensive then ones say, in the suburbs, and pubs do tend to be slightly more expensive in the countryside, but generally, a three-course meal without drinks will cost the traveller anywhere between £10 and £15. Chicken tikka masala with rice is sometimes claimed as the UK's official dish, though roast beef is a more traditional national dish. Many large shops, especially department stores, will have a coffee shop or restaurant. Larger towns have a range of restaurants to suit most tastes and you will find a very broad range of different cuisines, because Brits are very open-minded and love food from India, China, Thailand, France and Italy. Waiters generally expect a 10-13.5% tip and in most places you get directly charged for the service. A list of some quality restaurants is given below: Caribbean Restaurants in LondonMango RoomThe Mango Room enjoys a relaxed, laid-back atmosphere along with traditional ingredients such as salt cod, plantain, rice, peas and roti's, there are more extraordinary dishes such as curried goat.
Address: 10 Kentish Town Road, NW1 8NH Chinese Restaurants in LondonChinese Experience (Formerly Aroma II)Occupying the site of the old Aroma II restaurant, the Chinese Experience is a bright, modern and contemporary dining room with an extensive menu of creatively presented Szechuan, Cantonese and Peking dishes.
Address: 118-120 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 5EP ECapitalAs London's only Shanghaiese restaurant, ECapital is a sleek, stylish contemporary dining room that offers adventurous interpretations of classic Chinese dishes. Characterized by rich, dark sauces with sweeter flavours, signature dishes such as Lion's Head meatballs, braised yellow eel and shark's fin casserole are sure to delight, while the intriguing 'thousand-layer' pigs ears, filleted duck's feet with celery or Beggar's Chicken are favourites with regulars. Accompanied by a range of first-class aromatic teas and fine wines, ECapital provides a thrilling workout for your taste buds and one that we can thoroughly recommend.
Address: 8 Gerrard Street, W1D 5PJ Mr KongRegularly chosen as one of Chinatown's leading restaurants, Mr Kong nonetheless attracts its fair share of criticism too, with adverse comments about the decor, standards of service and most important of all - the cooking.
Address: 21 Lisle Street, WC2H 7BA Dutch Restaurants in LondonMy Old Dutch Pancake HouseLong established Dutch "style" eatery offering savoury meat and veggie options, along with jam, fruit or chocolate laced varieties for dessert. The restaurant does make for a reasonably priced night out.
Address: 132 High Holborn, WC1V 6PS
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The United Kingdom is an expensive place to eat out in Europe compared to the more southern European countries, but relatively cheap in comparison with countries such as Switzerland and Norway. Certainly only the minority of visitors will come here for the famous food. However, British cuisine has improved greatly in the past few years.
