{
  "project": "Small Guide",
  "type": "city",
  "city": "London",
  "local_city_name": "London",
  "country": "United Kingdom",
  "curator": "André Ribeirinho",
  "description": "Radically simple, authored city guides. Small, edited lists of places, curated by André.",
  "url": "https://smallguide.to/london",
  "updated": "July 2026",
  "symbols": {
    "◎": "Soulful",
    "◌": "Planned (not yet visited)"
  },
  "places": [
    {
      "name": "St. JOHN",
      "slug": "st-john",
      "city": "London",
      "local_city_name": "London",
      "area": "Smithfield",
      "country": "United Kingdom",
      "category": "Eat",
      "symbol": "◎",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Nose-to-tail British cooking in a bare white room, with a wine list to match; the restaurant others quietly copy.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Hermanos Colombian Coffee Roasters",
      "slug": "hermanos-colombian-coffee-roasters",
      "city": "London",
      "local_city_name": "London",
      "area": "Columbia Road",
      "country": "United Kingdom",
      "category": "Coffee",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Colombian beans from a Colombian family; specialty coffee with a clear accent.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Snoozzze Coffee",
      "slug": "snoozzze-coffee",
      "city": "London",
      "local_city_name": "London",
      "area": "Farringdon",
      "country": "United Kingdom",
      "category": "Coffee",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "A small coffee bar that takes the cup seriously, steps from Smithfield market.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Noble Rot",
      "slug": "noble-rot",
      "city": "London",
      "local_city_name": "London",
      "area": "Lamb’s Conduit",
      "country": "United Kingdom",
      "category": "Drink",
      "symbol": "◎",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "The wine bar behind the wine magazine everyone in wine actually reads; the Lamb’s Conduit original, though the other Noble Rots are worth it too.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "The 10 Cases",
      "slug": "the-10-cases",
      "city": "London",
      "local_city_name": "London",
      "area": "Covent Garden",
      "country": "United Kingdom",
      "category": "Drink",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Ten cases of each wine, and when they run out the list changes; a proper little wine bistro.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Whitechapel Gallery",
      "slug": "whitechapel-gallery",
      "city": "London",
      "local_city_name": "London",
      "area": "Whitechapel",
      "country": "United Kingdom",
      "category": "Look",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Out east and worth the journey; a gallery with a long habit of showing what’s next.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Tate Britain",
      "slug": "tate-britain",
      "city": "London",
      "local_city_name": "London",
      "area": "Millbank",
      "country": "United Kingdom",
      "category": "Look",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "British art from Tudor to now, the Turners especially; calmer than its Bankside sibling.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew",
      "slug": "royal-botanic-gardens-kew",
      "city": "London",
      "local_city_name": "London",
      "area": "Kew",
      "country": "United Kingdom",
      "category": "Look",
      "symbol": "◎",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Three hundred acres of the world’s plants; glasshouses, a treetop walk, and a day that resets you.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Barbican Centre",
      "slug": "barbican-centre",
      "city": "London",
      "local_city_name": "London",
      "area": "Barbican",
      "country": "United Kingdom",
      "category": "Architecture",
      "symbol": "◎",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "A brutalist city-within-a-city; raised walkways, a lake, an arts centre, and a conservatory hidden up top.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Columbia Road Flower Market",
      "slug": "columbia-road-flower-market",
      "city": "London",
      "local_city_name": "London",
      "area": "Bethnal Green",
      "country": "United Kingdom",
      "category": "Shop",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "A Sunday-only flower market on a Victorian East End street; barrows of blooms and plants, traders calling the prices, and independent shops and cafés behind them. It gets packed by mid-morning, so go early and let the street wake up around you.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Regent’s Canal",
      "slug": "regents-canal",
      "city": "London",
      "local_city_name": "London",
      "area": "Little Venice → the Thames",
      "country": "United Kingdom",
      "category": "Walk",
      "symbol": "◎",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "The city’s quiet backstairs; follow the towpath from Little Venice all the way down to the Thames, and London softens for a while.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    },
    {
      "name": "Hampstead Heath",
      "slug": "hampstead-heath",
      "city": "London",
      "local_city_name": "London",
      "area": "Hampstead",
      "country": "United Kingdom",
      "category": "Walk",
      "symbol": "◎",
      "year_added": 2026,
      "public_line": "Wild high ground over the city; swim the ponds, then take the view from Parliament Hill.",
      "judgment_status": "selected",
      "experience_status": "visited",
      "visited": true,
      "public": true
    }
  ]
}