I moved to London in 2005, and I wish I’d started London Grid the moment I arrived.
Twenty years on the city still surprises me, but it can also be overwhelming. The choice of where to eat, where to drink, where to shop, where to take the kids on a Sunday afternoon is endless, and sometimes you just want someone to point you in the right direction without having to spend an hour figuring it out for yourself.
That’s what London Grid is. This is my London. Curated, opinionated, and hand-picked. Every place on here has earned its spot. No algorithms, no aggregators, just the places I’d genuinely send to a friend.
I’m drawn to spots with genuine history and a bit of patina. Places that feel like they belong to the city rather than just exist in it. Historic coaching inns, secret mail tunnels, hidden gems tucked in a block of flats or moored on canals. Institutions that haven’t changed in decades and have no reason to. The kind of place that has a story, a specific vibe, and a reason to be exactly where it is.
London has more of those than anywhere else in the world. This is where I keep track of them.