London Foodways — the city

City

⚠ LONDON IS NOT ENGLAND. A port and a capital that has eaten differently from the rest of the country for a thousand years: SMITHFIELD for meat, BILLINGSGATE for fish and Borough for produce; PIE AND MASH with liquor and JELLIED EELS in the East End; whitebait; the chophouse, the coffee house from 1652, the gin craze and the Victorian restaurant; and successive immigrations that made the food — Huguenot, Irish, Jewish in Spitalfields and the BRICK LANE BEIGEL, Italian in Clerkenwell, Cypriot, Bengali Sylheti on the same Brick Lane, Caribbean in Brixton, West African in Peckham, Chinese in Soho, and Eastern European since 2004.