London has over 6000 restaurants

London has 3500 pubs

London has 1200 hotels, of which 300 have full restaurant facilities

16% of the UK’s restaurants are located in London*.

London boasts 31 Michelin-starred restaurants, more than any other city outside Paris.

Gordon Ramsay is the only three starred restaurant. There are four two starred restaurants and 25 one-starred restaurants.

London restaurants offer 70 different cuisines

African - Ethiopian, Eritrean, Algerian, Sudanese, Nigerian, Tanzanian

Caribbean, Jamaican, Guyana

North America – Tex-mex, Mexican,

Latin American – Argentinian, Brazilian, Colombian, Cuban, Peruvian,

European – Austrian, Swiss, German, Czech, Georgian, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, French, Italian,

Belgian, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, Spanish,

Chinese – Sichuan, Cantonese, Beijing,

Middle Eastern - Moroccan, Lebanese, Tunisian, Egyptian,

Asian – Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Nepalese, Afghan

Miscellaneous - Burmese, Irish, Montenegran, South African, Tibetan, Australian, New Zealand,

Jewish

Oriental – Japanese, Thai, Cambodian, Korean, Malaysian, Indonesian, Mongolian

Eating out by visitors to London generates £1.6 billion for the London economy

The number of restaurant meals served in Britain in the last 17 years has grown from 338 million to 470 million*.

The number of hotel meals served in Britain in the last 17 years has grown from 434 million to 640 million*.

Pub meals have doubled since 1981, from 670 million meals served to 1.4 billion*.

Total number of visits to London have grown from 20.4 million in 1978 to 28 million in 1999.

The overseas market has grown over this period from 8.4 million to 13.2 million in 1998.

* Source - Foodservice Intelligence

All other information is sourced from London Tourist Board’s London Tourist