Probably the most well known area of London, the 'West End' is a flexible term which is mostly taken to encompass the shopping districts of Bond Street, Oxford Street and Regent Street, and the more entertainment focused areas of Covent Garden and Leicester Square. The area is an extremely busy and sometimes congested hub of tourists and workers. The sights are numerous and plentiful, as are options for eating and drinking. A frequent complaint from visitors is the expensiveness and sometimes poor quality of the West End's more commercial restaurants so it is often worth seeking out the smaller establishments where London's office workers eat at lunchtime...
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Probably the most well known area of London, the 'West End' is a flexible term which is mostly taken to encompass the shopping districts of Bond Street, Oxford Street and Regent Street, and the more entertainment focused areas of Covent Garden and Leicester Square. The area is an extremely busy and sometimes congested hub of tourists and workers. The sights are numerous and plentiful, as are options for eating and drinking. A frequent complaint from visitors is the expensiveness and sometimes poor quality of the West End's more commercial restaurants so it is often worth seeking out the smaller establishments where London's office workers eat at lunchtime. Similarly, within such a small district, the expensive and unreliable public transport may be easily eschewed in favour of walking through the quirky and unique backstreets of these historic districts each of which offers something new and quite different from the other.