This beautifully illustrated guidebook goes well beyond normal listings-based guides. It takes locals and tourists beyond the obvious destinations and highlights the places that Londoners actually to go to when they' re hungry, from iconic eateries to cult and local restaurants. Beautifully illustrated and colourfully written, this original guidebook presents the places that put the city on the culinary map, and the local eateries, neighbourhoods and markets popular with real Londoners.

KIM LIGHTBODY is a food and lifestyle photographer based in London.

TANIA BALLANTINE is Time Out's UK Eating & Drinking Editor. She has been a London restaurant critic for some ten years, reviewing for the capital's best-regarded publications. She has reviewed restaurants for a large number of London guides, including the last three Time Out Eating & Drinking guides, as well as four annual issues of leading London restaurant guide Square Meal. Prior to working at Time Out, Tania was an editor at Square Meal; she has also contributed to specialist publications such as Food and Travel; national consumer magazines such as Women's Health, and national newspapers such as The Times.