United Kingdom
For the most authentic French food in the capital with quirky surroundings and no gimmicks.
Great snails, steak and wines. You have to go.
21 Monmouth St, London, WC2H 9DD - opposite Covent Garden Hotel;
tel: 020 7836 7243;
www.monplaisir.co.uk
This is a French/modern European restaurant in Stoke Newington. It's bit pricier in the evenings but nice, and the do a good-value lunch.
24 Stoke Newington Church Street, Stoke Newington;
tel: 0207 249 5029
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