London’s best Waterside restaurants from River Cafe to Town

The heat has dropped, the air humidity is switched on: spring in London is here. Ok, up and down with the weather, it’s not as if Lidos are quite hievend or that even the lakes feel overcrowded. But you will do it soon.

Fortunately, London has the Thames to break up the city heat, and from the channel -leading cult favorites to seafood with a view, the capital does not have too few restaurants in which they line their waterways (as well as many pubs in which they can then dip). The following list – our favorites, but others are out there – offers the opportunity to enjoy the sun with a cooling river breeze, from a seat that brings it as close as possible to the water. You can find more hotspots outdoors outside of the water in our complete guide here. Try this page for our guide to the best beer gardens.

The river café

Ruthie Roger’s’ influential Italian dining room is a legend among the restaurants and is still a stubborn place to spend a warm day in West London, even after almost 40 years. The main cooking room is withdrawn from the Thames, but only distant from a leaf garden, which is filled with tables with deep focke trucks in spring and summer, including a good execution of celebrities that attach themselves to nettle noodles with butter and choral scroll mönchfisch with anchovies and rosemary sauce. It is absolutely expensive for some; The old joke is only when someone else pays. Try the newer Cafe Cafe Cafe Cafe.

Thames Wharf, Rainville Road, W6 9ha, Rivercafe.co.uk

caravel

Fin and Lorcan Spiteri have hospitality in the blood – both mama (Melanie Arnold, from Rochelle Cantenen) and Dad (Jon Spiteri, once from St. John and Sessions Arts Club) are industries. But in the meantime, the brothers have made a name for themselves after taking over a load bar on the regent’s channel and converted into a restaurant with 10 seats with space for 40 guests and at least half of them are ready to be seduced by the eternal magic of gentle wing and good glasses. Lorcan is responsible for cooking: expect a simple dinner, but the experts cook: duck parpadelle with peas and gremolata, maybe or mackerel with borlotti beans and beef heart tomatoes. Fins Cocktaill list is brought to the point-the rum and Cola old fashioned is particularly good-and there is also a nice selection of no-and-deep drinks. Do you want more? Maybe not literally jump to Brunos, the barge bar next door.

172 Shepherdess Walk, N1 7JL, thestudiokitchen.co.uk

Sams Riverside

The restaurateur Sam Harrison is so slightly upstream of Ruth Rogers and her Caff, and has set up his own riverside retreat. With a cracking view of the green-gold towers of the Hammersmith bridge (the no longer deceased) Hammersmith-Bridge, Sams river bank serves a menu with seafood: Plaice with garlic and beef, which drips from, and grilled wild shrimps, but also lamb shoulder and a pork. Large windows offer most tables a look at the water, while the season are the best seats in the house on a summer terrace. A little further west and where the river Brent approaches the Thames, Harrison now has Sam’s water on the water and offers a similar thing.

1 Crisp Road, W6 9dn, samsriverside.co.uk

Drag path

ToWpath – sometimes called the Town Cafe – has long been an attraction in East London with all the license plates of a modern cult favorite: seasonal opening (from spring to autumn), confirmation of the celebrities (Keira Knightley, Fergus and Margot Henderson, Jeremy Lee) and once his own podcast. Can you book Absolutely not. Lori de Mori and Laura Jackson opened the place in 2010 and kept it as much as it was at the time: a chalk -blackboard suggests confit garlic with goat curd or a grilled cheese -sandwich with quince jam. A pleasure to be in the inevitable waiting time.

42 de Beauvoir Crescent, N1 5SB, Townhlondon.com

roe

The brachkaser boy Murray, Jack Croft and James Robson have repeated it with Roe, their follow-up restaurant on Wood Wharf (Canary Wharf and me). Inside it is spectacular in its own way, but its huge terrace is certainly the draw that looks as it is over the calm water and is usually light, blessed, shaded. The food is very up to date – five stars from the standard – and the wine list is also excellent. A place where you settle down, nibbling everything and staying a little longer than initially expected. The frozen margaritas are known as particularly fatal.

5 Park Drive, E14 9GG, Roerestaurant.co.uk

Brewery

Simple joys don’t get much better than beer and pizza – Crate Brewery does both very well and throws a channel system to boot. The Independent Hackney Wick Brewery produces its own beer on site, and its pizza oven also arises in a good line in thin pizzas that are occupied by people such as sage and truffles or near Lamb in the Middle East. Sit directly to the benches to navigate the Lee River and watch the load barges walking.

Unit 7 Queen’s Yard, E9 5en, cratebrewery.com

The summer house

You have to stand on the opposite bank of the Grand Union Canal (or actually sitting at one of the water tables) to appreciate Maida Vale’s Summerhouse, which unveiled anything from his stimuli from his street front. The restaurant is practically a floating terrace and is open to the elements when the weather is good, with nothing between the guests and the ducks that are moved along the canal except a properly cut box thesis. Fortunately, the seafood is thankfully not from local waters – there are Canadian lobsters, jersey oysters and Mediterranean royal shrimp – as well as lumbar strips, lamb rump and on Sunday roast.

60 Blomfield Road, W9 2PA, Thesummerhouse.co

Ombra

Since it is next to the channel, this old shop in the downstream heap of the downside is not a detective to find his previous life in 2018 when Mitshel Ibrahim (Ex-Clove Club) took over the kitchen when Mitshel Ibrahim (Ex-Clove Club) took over. From this Ibrahim looks over his dining room and its outdoor terrace, where people arrive in a Bacaro in Venice. They come for everything: a few small bites and a glass of wine, an à la carte meal or even the £ £ -ke menu experience. If you are switched on, do not skip the crostino home home pancetta. It is not surprising that wine prioritizes Italy, including a lot of skin contact and orange offer.

1 Vyner Street, E2 9dg, ombrabar.restaurant

The melusine

The Melusine may be overlooked as it is in St. Katharine Docks and is a very fine restaurant with seafood. It changes its menu with the mood of the weather; That means what will be done about them that morning is what ends up in the kitchen and then on the plate. There are excellent oysters, often great scallops, usually bream or plaice. Some seafood locations act with their simplicity; This seems to appreciate a sense of the complex. The prices are fair, and the setting next to the yachts is a beauty that gently drives on their macas.

Unit K, ivory house, St. Katharine Docks, E1W 1at, Themelusine.co.uk

Rick Stein Barnes

Rick Stein may be best known for his Padstow Empire of Cornish Food Restaurant-OH, and being on TV-but after a rocky start in Barnes, his restaurant with seafood seems to have found his feet lately. Sitting between Barnes and Chiswick Bridges, in a dining room that has been raised over a Thames curve, and offers some rather impressive views in a look downstream. There is a small meat on the menu, but dishes with a whole dover sole, butterflies and Tronçon made of turbots with Hollandaise -sauce steal the show.

Tideway Yard, 125 Mortlake High Street, SW14 8SN, Rickstein.com

Darcie & May Green

The Daisy Green Group has already brought its Australian food to London via several oceans, but one of his hotspots is still interested in being on the water. The guests will find Darcie & May Green on board a canal in Paddington, which was designed by the renowned British pop artist Sir Peter Blake. In the morning you will find a café in the anti-Podian café thinking for flat white and sweet-corn donuts-followed by the summer barbecue inspired dishes and an everyday bottomless brunch offer.

Sheldon Square, W2 6DS, daisygreenfood.com

Hawksmoor Wood Wharf

This outpost of Canary WHARB of the upscale British steak chain makes the best of its Docklands location with sun loungers on the terrace, where, when the reflection of the water does not give you tan, the sunlight becomes wicked scratches. The Sundeck is indeed turned down at the former bar. The dining room in this floating restaurant is located on the floor at the top, where the side orders of French fries, macaroni cheese and grilled bone marrow are almost as good as the grass-fed, dry, ethically employed steaks.

1 Water Street, E14 5GX, Thehawksmoor.com

To take a few more into account …

• Boisdale Canary Wharf Scottish spot with a good fun with a lot of live music. 1 Cabot Square, E14 4QT, boisdale.co.uk

• Le Pont de la Tour Maybe the best -known view in London from Tower Bridge. Food is classic French. 36d Shad Thames, SE1 2ye, Lepontdelatour.co.uk

• Gaucho Richmond Leafy Spot in Richmond for this famous Argentine steakhouse. The ToWpath, Richmond Riverside, Richmond-Upon-Thames, TW10 6UJ, gauchorestaurants.com

• Tavolino Modern Italian with a view of the Tower Bridge and the town hall. 2 more London Riverside, SE1 2DB, tavolino.co.uk

• Sea Container’s restaurant Expect the Thake Bank on the right and await loose foods with an American-British bent. 20 Obergrund, SE1 9PD, Seacontainerslondon.com

• Emilias pasta The name gives this way. Nice place in St. Katharine Docks. C3 Ivory House, St. Katharine Docks, E1W 1at, emiliaspasta.com