Islington

Travel through your stomach? This is one of London’s most restaurant-dense districts. Popular with liberal types and families, Islington’s period homes are fed by buzzy Upper Street. Think Chinese Laundry, Oldroyd and 69 Colebrook Row. The cultural scene is equally delicious: book for Almeida Theatre, Sadler’s Wells or Union Chapel, and rummage through antiques on Camden Passage.