Best Fun Restaurants in Hornsey

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1. Tomo Italian Kitchen

4.8

Exceptional(884)

Price: Moderate

• Italian • Hornsey

Booked 7 times today

We are a family run restaurant committed to the best freshly made Italian meals in the area. Our food is delicious: hand prepared with the finest Italian ingredients, by chefs as passionate about great food as you are - only with a little more experience! Enjoy a great variety of pizzas, pastas, meat, fish, salads and home made desserts created in our open kitchen, right before your eyes... Come savour the Jazzy music collection and fine Artwork on our walls while you enjoy your meal.

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2. No.5 Dining & Lounge

4.3

Awesome(588)

Price: Moderate

• Mediterranean • Hornsey

Booked 1 time today

Welcome to No5 Dining and Lounge, North London’s utmost plush restaurant. Open frommidday till late, No5 offers an unforgettable Mediterranean dining experience, where thefood, drink, service and décor are exceptional. Have your camera phones ready as you’ll be snapping away; just remember to tag us ; @No5Dining.

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3. St. JOHN Smithfield

4.8

Exceptional(4073)

Price: Very Expensive

• British • Farringdon

Booked 38 times today

Fergus Henderson’s original home of “Nose to Tail Eating” opened in a former smokehouse around the corner from Smithfield Market in 1994.Celebrating the finest of indigenous British produce and making the most of what is seasonally best whilst applying straight forward cooking techniques, St. John is now celebrated as one of the 50 Best Restaurants in the World and in 2009 was awarded its first Michelin Star.Nose to tail eating means that, where appropriate, every part of the animal should be put to good use in the kitchen and so along with Roast Beef and Lemon Sole, diners will find Rolled Pig’s Spleen, Kidneys and Ox Heart, Liver and Chitterlings as well as the Roast Bone Marrow & Parsley Salad, something of a ‘signature’ dish.

4. Tollington's

4.5

Awesome(42)

Price: Expensive

• Fish • Holloway

Booked 8 times today

Tired of the loosely French inspired humdrum of restaurants popping up across the city of London? Do you like holidays? Do you like cold drinks and warm service? If you've answered yes to one or more of these then perhaps Tollington's can refresh both your pallet and your mind. The idea came from a mirror in an antiques market and a love for a more informal approach to dining, the result is a chippy in North London with old church pews bolted to the walls to be leaned on and eaten from. The focus is on fish but the menu transcends fish, mammals and vegetables, leaving no stone unturned in the never ending quest for flavour. Split between two rooms, the front the engine, the kitchen and bar shared by customers as they perch on bar stools and enjoy dinner and a show. The back, bookable room is lower, lower lighting, lower seating, perhaps a slight calm compared to the front room, here works of art from friends of the restaurant adorn the walls and floors.Book now to reach Nirvana.

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5. The Lore of the Land

4.7

Exceptional(802)

Price: Very Expensive

• Gastro Pub • Fitzrovia

Booked 8 times today

A traditional pub serving contemporary English food in the heart of Fitzrovia. The Lore is composed of The Pub on the ground floor, The Kitchen on the first floor and Private room with bar on the top floor.All of our food is freshly prepared by Head Chef Michal Kaszuba and his brigade in the Lore kitchen on the first floor. Our menus have been created especially to reflect the seasons, when ingredients are at their very best.Our legendary Sunday roast is slow-cooked with delicious trimmings.THE PUBA copper and pewter topped bar serving a range of beers, including our very own Gritchie brews, premium spirits, cocktails and selected wines. The walls are adorned with eclectic and original artwork. THE KITCHENOpen plan but still intimate. Experience the sight and sound of our open kitchen with the Chefs cooking on our bespoke, charcoal fuelled oven and char-grill. THE PRIVATE ROOMA wonderful private room with private bar on its own floor.

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6. Blacklock Shoreditch

4.8

Exceptional(4114)

Price: Moderate

• Steak • Shoreditch

Booked 95 times today

Blacklock Shoreditch is a fun-filled place with its unique setting in an old furniture factory and the highest quality meat from Phillip Warren. The reviews rave about the 'great dining atmosphere', 'delightful staff', 'great vibe', 'friendly and fun service', and the 'stunning vibe' that the place offers. It's a place where you can have a 'great time' and enjoy 'insane food' at 'reasonably priced given the quality'.

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7. Mad Hatters Tea at Sanderson London

4.1

Excellent(2879)

Price: Expensive

• Afternoon Tea • Oxford Circus

Booked 20 times today

Experience the magic of the beloved story brought to life once again. Sanderson invites you to tumble down the rabbit hole and discover a tea party beyond your wildest imagination, inspired by the whimsical world of Alice in Wonderland.Kings and queens adorn the teapots at our brand new Mad Hatters Afternoon Tea which is full of sweet treats and savoury delights to tantalise your taste buds.Will you take a peek through the looking glass?(Please note that we do not allow fancy dress, or decorations including balloons.)

8. The Parakeet

4.8

Exceptional(660)

Price: Very Expensive

• Gastro Pub • Kentish Town

Booked 52 times today

Fire led modern European cooking, served in a warm vibrant dining room. Reservations open on the 1st of each month for the following month, for groups up to 6 guests. Bookings for January will open on the 1st of December at 10am. For larger groups please email bookings@theparakeetpub.com. We serve our A la Carte menu Monday to Saturday, and Roasts on Sundays.

9. Westerns Laundry

4.8

Exceptional(1666)

Price: Expensive

• Modern European • Holloway

Booked 24 times today

Westerns Laundry is a Michelin Bib Gourmand restaurant focusing on seafood & natural wines. The restaurant is located in the Islington/Highbury neighbourhood of North London. It opened in 2018 and is housed in a 1950's industrial building which used to be home to the largest commercial laundry in North London. It now boasts a beautiful 60 cover dining room, which opens onto an open 20 cover cobbled courtyard with olive trees as well as an intimate private dining room. Westerns Laundry has won numerous awards for excellence and originality and is a firm favourite on the London dining scene.

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10. Karen’s Diner - London Angel

4.2

Awesome(881)

Price: Moderate

• American • Angel

Booked 7 times today

Karen's is an interactive diner and an absurdly fun experience. At Karen's you will be greeted and waited upon by rude waiters who in return are expecting you to give it full Karen. A place where you can complain until the cows come home because we literally don't care. You can expect good food, good fun and a dining experience like you've never had before. Let us know if it's your birthday, if your name is Karen and for the love of Karen don't ask to speak to the manager....

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Ian
London •40 reviews
5.0
Dined 1 day ago
As usual a lovely meal served by lovely staff. Took friends with us for their first time there. They loved it and said definitely going back
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Tomo Italian KitchenPrice: Moderate• Italian• Hornsey
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4.8
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Arabella
London •2 reviews
5.0
Dined 3 days ago
Such a lovely evening! The food was just incredible, particularly the venison tartare, pork loin and beef cheek. Just amazing. Such lovely staff who were always ready to help and even treated us to a complimentary pudding for our special occasion! The Guinness was also a major highlight. Huge fun sitting near the bar upstairs and watching the cooks create everything. Can’t wait to come back again, thank you for looking after us so brilliantly!
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The Lore of the LandPrice: Very Expensive• Gastro Pub• Fitzrovia
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4.7
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Chloe
London •3 reviews
4.0
Dined 4 days ago
Good food solid drinks might be back again depending if theyre as strict as the table turn timings as told
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Tollington'sPrice: Expensive• Fish• Holloway
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4.5
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Kathleen
San Francisco Bay Area •12 reviews
5.0
Dined 6 days ago
Outstanding food, service, ambiance. Classic British food, nose to tail, simply but exquisitely prepared. We started with olives and roasted bone marrow, a favourite we order whenever possible, and this was the best we’ve ever had. Accompanying parsley salad was flavourful crunchy and fresh, perfect accompaniment along sourdough toast. For mains we shared grey mullet, grilled shorthorn, white asparagus, green salad and a sublime braised mutton. Everything was superb and we were quite full but couldn’t resist dessert. Both the lemon posset and date loaf with butterscotch sauce were incredible and we ate every last bit. Service was low key excellent and very helpful as we ordered wine by the glass having over imbibed over the weekend and server recommendations were perfect.
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St. JOHN SmithfieldPrice: Very Expensive• British• Farringdon
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4.8
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MontyE
London •1 review
4.0
Dined on 1 Jan 2023
Loved the music, lightening, the food. Wish the was a lounge to dance to the music would have been perfect.
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No.5 Dining & LoungePrice: Moderate• Mediterranean• Hornsey
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4.3

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1. Tomo Italian Kitchen

2. No.5 Dining & Lounge

3. St. JOHN Smithfield

4. Tollington's

5. The Lore of the Land

6. Blacklock Shoreditch

7. Mad Hatters Tea at Sanderson London

8. The Parakeet

9. Westerns Laundry

10. Karen’s Diner - London Angel

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