Over six thousand restaurants in London offer signature dishes from more than 70 countries. If that seems insufficient, each of the city's three thousand cafes offers a variety of culinary delights to suit any taste and budget. Dining in London's high-society restaurants can be done in the districts of St. James's, Mayfair, and Chelsea. Cheaper and, so to speak, more intimate places are located closer to the outskirts - in Notting Hill, the East End, Camden, Clerkenwell, Holborn, and Islington.
Indian cuisine is best tasted in the Brick Lane area of East London at the Bengal Cuisine restaurant. A huge variety of Chinese cuisine at very reasonable prices is available in Chinatown. It's worth going to Hoxton or Shoreditch to sample authentic and inexpensive Vietnamese food: among local trendsetters, the Viet Hoa and Hanoi Cafe restaurants are especially popular. The Gaucho Grill chain is famous for its Argentine beef steak. Guanabara in Covent Garden is an excellent choice for lovers of Brazilian cuisine and cocktails. And for Caribbean or Lebanese food, you can go to Bamboula in Brixton, Al Waha, Maroush on Edgware Road, and Al Sultan in the fashionable Mayfair district.
In addition to 9 thousand restaurants and cafes, London has about 5 thousand pubs and bars. To immerse yourself in the atmosphere of a typical pub, it is worth visiting Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese - one of the oldest in London - or The George Inn, the only surviving tavern in the city. Visitors to The Trafalgar Tavern in Greenwich and Prospect of Whitby in Wapping enjoy not only excellent food but also a magnificent view of the river. The most elegant people in London can be found at the bar of the Savoy Hotel, which first introduced Britain to martini. This long-standing bar opened back in the late 1890s.
Cafes and restaurants have long been loved in New York as well. When Manhattan was just becoming the commercial center of the city, it already had over a hundred taverns, eateries, food carts, and oyster bars. Now the number of establishments on Manhattan reaches 15 thousand.
It was in New York that the standard of a luxury restaurant was formed, an example of which is the famous Delmonico's: from a small pastry shop on William Street in 1827, it turned into a chic French restaurant. The Delmonico's chain, with its exquisite dishes like "Baked Alaska" and "Lobster Newberg," cemented New York's reputation as the second gastronomic capital of the world after Paris. And its successors still thrive on Manhattan: La Cote Bacque, La Grenouille, and La Caravelle.
Jack's Restaurant & Bar will be a good haven for those who love peace and quiet. In an unusually intimate setting, you can enjoy the Spanish assortment offered both cold and hot, which may include tuna sashimi, lamb in curry sauce, meat pancakes Chekante, or slices of raw beef with tuna.
It's also hard to pass by another restaurant called Empire Diner. Designed in the style of the Empire State Building on the outside and retro style on the inside. The themed interior decoration, retro-style furniture and matching staff uniforms. According to its visitors, it would be an ideal location for filming movies like 'Men in Black'.
Not only to eat excellently, but also to satisfy their aesthetic needs, any gourmet can do so at the New York restaurant Lucky Cheng's. A better pastime than watching a spicy show led by the restaurant's hostess, Annie De Gringard, is simply unimaginable. True, it's hardly worth bringing children to this establishment.
And even fast food can truly be delicious if it's made in New York. The Bravo Pizza restaurant, which has been around since 1985, is still very popular among Americans and tourists. Pastas, sauces, and sausages are made there in a homemade style. You can have breakfast for just $7 with omelets, pancakes, French toast, bagels, and other English pastries at a small restaurant called Hamburger Heaven, opened back in 1943. For seafood lovers, the Grand Central Oyster Bar, decorated inside like a sea cave, opens early in the morning.