Hampstead Heath, International - Restaurant Guide

A “great location” – on the Kenwood side of the Heath – means you need to book for this ancient (1585) pub, which also boasts a “good menu”, affordable prices and cute garden in summer. Need an excuse to go? Tell people you’re on a literary pilgrimage (Keats, Byron and Dickens all caroused here).

A pub has stood on this leafy site on the road to Golder’s Green for three centuries, and was made famous by Edwardian music-hall star Florrie Forde as a ‘little nook down near old Hampstead town’ where Cockneys would head on a day trip. These days a “stalwart still going strong”, it offers a “good-value set lunch in the dining room” (2 courses for £20.95; 3 for £24.95).