The Lamb
daily from midday (hours on the website)
Victorian pub on Lamb's Conduit Street with pivoting snob screens above the bar.
In fine weather the drinkers stand out on the traffic-free street.
London · Bloomsbury · See
Charles Dickens Museum
The house where Dickens wrote ‘Oliver Twist’, furnished as in his day.
75 min££
Charles Dickens lived here for only a few years, but wrote some of his best-known books during that time. On display are his desk, letters, furniture and the family’s everyday objects. The rooms are furnished so that you can easily imagine the life of a middle-class family in Victorian London. There’s a café in the small garden behind the house.
Background
The Charles Dickens Museum is an author's house museum at 48 Doughty Street in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden. It occupies a typical Georgian terraced house which was Charles Dickens's home from 25 March 1837 (a year after his marriage) to December 1839.
From Wikipedia: “Charles Dickens Museum”, licence CC BY-SA 4.0
Walk on from here
Walk on from here
Three places nearby, in walking order.
- ·Charles Dickens Museum
- 2 min walk1The LambVictorian pub on Lamb's Conduit Street with pivoting snob screens above the bar.
- 4 min walk2
Foundling MuseumThe story of London's first foundling hospital, with works by Hogarth and Handel memorabilia. - 13 min walk3
The Garden CinemaSmall independent cinema in Covent Garden with classics, arthouse and film seasons.
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No Swan So Fine · CC BY-SA 4.0 
Des Blenkinsopp · CC BY-SA 2.0 
Image: website caravanandco.com 
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Foundling Museum
Tue–Sat 10 am–5 pm, Sun 11 am–5 pm, closed Mon
The story of London's first foundling hospital, with works by Hogarth and Handel memorabilia.
Online £13.50, at the desk £14.50. Closed Mondays. The little tokens left by the mothers are the most moving part.
Quality Chop House
Kitchen: Mon dinner only 6–9.45 pm, Tue–Sat lunch and dinner until 9.45 pm, Sun lunch only 12 noon–3.30 pm
Working-class dining rooms of 1869 with the original wooden pews; chops and the famous confit potatoes.
For Fri/Sat book 1–2 weeks ahead; the kitchen only runs until 9.45 pm in the evening. Sun lunch only.
The Eagle Farringdon
Bar Mon–Sat 12 noon–11 pm, Sun 12 noon–5 pm; kitchen 12 noon–3 pm and Mon–Sat 6.30–10.30 pm
Regarded as London's first gastropub; daily menu on the blackboard, the classic is the steak sandwich.
Small tables cannot be booked, come early; kitchen at lunchtime 12 noon–3 pm, groups of 5 or more book by phone.
Caravan Exmouth Market
Mon 8 am–9.30 pm, Tue/Wed 8 am–10 pm, Thu/Fri 8 am–10.30 pm, Sat 9 am–10.30 pm, Sun 9 am–4 pm
All-day restaurant with its own roastery; brunch with creative egg dishes and good coffee.
Weekend brunch is popular, book online; outside, Exmouth Market tempts with street-food stalls.
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Leather Lane Market
Mon–Fri roughly 10 am–4 pm (unverified), no market Sat/Sun
Weekday street market in Holborn with lots of cheap food stalls, from curry to burritos.
Mon–Fri only, busiest 12 noon–2 pm; nothing happens at the weekend. Eat outside, there is hardly any seating.
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