London Seafood Culture & History

The stories behind the seafood: Billingsgate Market, Borough Market's own seafood restaurants, the real history of fish and chips, and oysters and the Thames.

A Visitor's Guide to Billingsgate Market

What Billingsgate Market actually is, how it's always worked, and why it still shapes what ends up on London's seafood menus today, from wholesale to plate.

The History of Fish and Chips in London

How London's most common seafood dish became a genuine national dish, from Jewish fried-fish shops to wartime rationing and beyond into today.

Borough Market's Best Seafood Restaurants

Three genuinely good seafood restaurants in and around Borough Market, London's oldest food market, from Seabird to Wright Brothers and beyond.

Oysters and the Thames: A Short History

How oysters went from London's cheapest Victorian street food to a genuine modern luxury, and what actually happened to the Thames oyster beds.