Best restaurants in Hampstead
Along with Highgate, its twin on the other side of the Heath, Hampstead is one of the few London villages that still feels like a small community – even if the villagers these days are millionaires with jobs in the City and weekend homes in The Cotswolds. Still, it’s easy to see why so many people want to live here. With its cute alleys leading off buzzy Heath Street and its hilly lanes stuffed with higgledy-piggledy cottages, grand villas and some iconic examples of modernist architecture, NW3 is one of the most desirable postcodes in the capital – and that’s before you take Hampstead Heath into account, 790 acres of parkland, bathing ponds and panoramic views over central London below.