City Guide: London

If you were in town for three days this is where I'd shove you:

Galleries

- Maureen Paley, 21 Herald Street, London E2

- Sadie Coles, 62 Kingly St, London W1B 5QN (3 locations but this is largest)

- The Dover Street trio: David Zwirner, Ropac, Sprueth Magers

- Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Rd, London NW3

- Ginny on Frederick (weekends/appt), Smithfields (new address soon)

Coffee

- Hideaway Coffee, 7 Farrier's Passage, London W1D 7DP

- Allpress, 58 Redchurch St, London E2 7DP and 55 Dalston Ln, London E8 2NG

- Arvo, 57 Regent's Park Rd, London NW1 8XD

- Monocle Café, 18 Chiltern St, London W1U 7QA

Lunch

- Rose Bakery at DSTM, 18-22 Haymarket, London WC2H 7EA

- Rochelle Canteen (lunch), Arnold Circus, London E2 (book)

- Daquise, 20 Thurloe Street London SW7 (£3 Polish side dishes and spy vibe)

Dinner

- Dean Street Townhouse, 69 Dean St, London W1 (art by me from 2009 in the main room and the haddock souffle)

- Maison Francois, 34 Duke Street St James's, St. James's, London SW1Y 6DF

- Bao, 53 Lexington St, Carnaby, London W1F 9AS

- Jugemu, 3 Winnett St, London W1D 6JY

Drink

- St John (the bar area), 26 St John St, London EC1 (also the welsh rarebit)

- The French House, 49 Dean St, London W1

- The Holly Bush, 22 Holly Mount, London NW3 (dinner too)

Books and Magazines

- ICA bookshop, The Mall, St. James's, London SW1Y 5AH

- Tenderbooks, 6 Cecil Ct, London WC2N 4HE

- Compton News, 48 Old Compton Street, London W1 (magazines)

- Donlon Books, 75 Broadway Market, London E8 4PH

- London Review Bookshop, 14-16 Bury Pl, London WC1A 2JL

- Treadwell’s, 33 Store St, London WC1E 7BS (esoteric)

Shop

- Music and Video Exchange shops (various Pembridge Road and Notting Hill Gate).

- Fenwicks, 63 New Bond St, London W1 (before it closes in December)

- Labour and Wait, 85 Redchurch St, London E2 7DJ (multiple locations)

- Good Hood, 151 Curtain Rd, London EC2A 3QE

- DSTM, Sunspel, all the Uniqlo and Muji shops

Tourist Stuff

- Sir John Soane's Museum, 13 Lincoln Inn Fields, London WC1

- Primrose Hill and the walk through Regents Park from the zoo to the west end

London Books

- JG Ballard 'High-Rise'

- Graham Greene 'Ministry of Fear'

- Anything by Iain Sinclair