Park It Right There At These London Park Cafes

23rd July 2019

The lungs of London, the city’s biggest asset, the place you’re most likely to get robbed by a bicycle gang; London’s parks are a place that we all head when it’s sunny, when we want to exercise, when we want to celebrate, when we want to get away; a communal space common to all Londoners, regardless of wealth or background. And because us Londoners love to eat, they’re, of course, the place we come when we want to eat. So, lucky for us, there’s little shortage of great places to eat in London’s parks…

Pear Tree Café, Battersea Park

Come the summer months, there’s nothing better ‘of an evening’ than sitting with a glass of AIX rosé and a view across the seeming wilderness lagoon of Battersea Park. Of course you’re a short walk from the Battersea Power Station development, or Chelsea, but if you concentrate hard enough, or sink enough glasses, you could be beside the Amazon. The Pear Tree Café, a low-rise brick structure makes an ideal fall-back during winter months, and serves excellent, heathy, breakfast, lunch and dinner options.

Where: Lakeside Cafe, Battersea Park, Battersea, SW11 4NJ
Website: www.peartreecafe.co.uk

Serpentine Bar & Kitchen

The Serpentine, a name so cool it’s hard to believe that JK Rowling didn’t name it herself! You can swim in it (brrr), boat on it or, my recommendation, sit beside it and enjoy the light bites available at the Serpentine Bar & Kitchen. The modern lakeside venue serves a pretty broad range of relatively simple fare, a menu augmented in summer by a barbecue kiosk and some excellent burger options!

Where: Serpentine Road, Hyde Park, W2 2UH
Website: www.benugo.com

The Lido Café, Brockwell Park

Brockwell Park Lido is striking in its size, 1930s construction style and by the very fact that anyone wants to be plunging into unheated water in Britain, but in my view it’s most notable for the café that sits poolside. Set within Brockwell Park, one of London’s most underrated parks, a stunner just a few minutes walk from downtown Brixton, the café serves an excellent day-time menu that’s all vegan and vegetarian, with the option to add add meat ‘if that’s your thing’.

Where: Dulwich Road, Herne Hill, SE24 0PA
Website: www.thelidocafe.co.uk

Windmill Tearooms

For an inexpensive break as you trek over Wimbleon’s vast common, drop into the Windmill Tearooms. The tearooms, beneath the sails of the iconic windmill, serves up classic tearoom fare, from filled jacket potatoes to pies and, of course, all the flapjack and brownies you can guzzle.

Where: Windmill Road, Wimbledon Common, Wimbledon, SW19 5NQ
Website: www.windmilltearooms.com

The Regent's Bar & Kitchen

Run by the same people that brought us the Serpentine Bar & Kitchen, the eclectic menu includes the same mix of fish and chips or burgers, juxtaposed against items like baby artichoke, mozzarella and salsa rossa flatbread. The setting is equally pretty, sat just within the grand park’s inner circle.

Where: Inner Circle, Regent's Park, NW1 4NR
Website: www.benugo.com

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