Discover Temple’s 2 best spots for your trip in London

Ikoyi has become one of London's most talked-about fine-dining rooms by refusing to play it safe: its tasting menus lean on fermentation, smoke, and West African spicing to create combinations reviewers describe as genuinely unexpected course after course. The setting is sleek and modern rather than showy, letting the food carry the evening, and at 4.5 stars from over 1,100 reviews it consistently ranks among diners' most memorable meals anywhere.

Prices sit at the premium end and the pace is unhurried, so it suits couples or small groups celebrating something and willing to give the meal their full attention. This is a destination dinner, not a casual bite.

Consecrated in 1185, Temple Church takes its distinctive circular nave from Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre and was built for the Knights Templar, later serving barristers of the Inner and Middle Temple who still surround it today. Its effigy tombs of medieval knights, tied to the history of the Magna Carta and figures like William Marshal, give reviewers with a 4.6 rating a strong sense of stepping into genuinely old London, tucked away in the quiet legal enclave of Temple.

It's a compact but rich stop, well suited to history and architecture fans exploring the Inns of Court on foot.