Restaurants around Great Eastern St and Princeton St

London Eating has full reviews of many pubs and restaurants.

Near Old Street and Great Eastern Street:
Home Bar (100-106 Leonard St, EC2A 4RH,
Get Directions020 76848618) has 50% off all food on Mondays.
Bogayo (320 Old Street, EC1V, 020 70121226‎) is a well-received Moroccan fusion spot which offers a prix fixe menu at GBP15 for 2 courses. Lunch sandwiches are GBP4.
Cay Tre (301 Old St, EC1V 9LA, 020 77298662‎) has been called the best Vietnamese in London. They offer a 5% off dine-in e-voucher some weekdays.
Potemkin (144 Clerkenwell Road, EC1R 5DP, 020 7278 6661‎) offers Russian fare, a GBP10 business lunch special and 25% for early bird dinners.
The Windmill (27 Tabernacle Street, EC2A 4DE, 020 7786 9681) offers new style Italian including pastas and sandwiches.
Yo!Sushi (95 Farringdon Rd, EC1R 3BT, 020 78410785‎ and other locations throughout London)
delivers dishes by conveyor belt.

Near Bloomsbury and Princeton Street:
Cagney's (13 Cosmo Pl, WC1N 3AP,
Get D020 72788498) has a large selection of burgers and seems to be a British interpretation of classic American foods.
Guanabara (Parker Street at Drury Lane, WC2B 5PW, 020 7242 8600‎) is a Brazilian night spot with daily happy hour drink specials and traditional fare.
Hare and Tortise (15-17 Brunswick Centre, WC1N 1AF, 020 72784945) offers sushi, udon and other Asian specialties.
Kam Fung Chinese (27 Red Lion Street,WC1R, 020 7242 5821)
Tuttis (68 lambs conduit street, WC1N 3LW, 020 7404 9254) is (was?) a great little cafe.
Zucchero restaurant (73 Gray's Inn Rd, WC1X 8TP, 020 74047553) has good-value Italian.

Last update 11/29/2008

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The Guardian features a top-ten list of eccentric picks from the editors of the weekly Le Cool magazine. Among the stops highlighted are several galleries, a scooter shop/cafe, a jukebox showroom, and a discount tea shop.

Another list from The Guardian features the top ten secret cultural treasures of London. One of the sites is the Hunterian Museum of the The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The oddities include preserved anatomical specimens and Winston Churchill's dentures.

Preparations underway

The countdown till my departure is on! As I ready myself for several month's of time away from my usual life, I'm undertaking all sorts of planning to make this a smooth transition. Financial concerns like credit cards without foreign currency fees, new banking arrangements and international funds transfers are in the forefront. I'm starting to hunt for housing and to make a catalog of resources to refer to once I am overseas. Add to this all the permits and licenses I'll need to practice outside the US, and it's quite a handful!

Here are a few resource links:
Hazelmail, a site which lets you convert any digital photo into a postcard that they will mail anywhere in the world.
American Express Travel Service London offices, for cash and travelers checks, among other necessities.
Tourist sites like Londonist, Moleskine London, Visit London, Blog by Blog London guide, All in London, Qype London, and a collection of discount vouchers will hopefully let me get out of the usual tourist rut as well.