Second helpings: Other riverside restaurants

Riverside Brasserie Bray Marina, Oxo Tower Restaurant, River Cafe

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Other riverside restaurants

Riverside Brasserie Bray Marina, Bray, Berkshire, tel: 01628 7805 530 This marina is not exactly Monte Carlo and nor is this casual brasserie as high-falutin' as its Michelin two-starred big brother, the Fat Duck. But molecular gastronomer Heston Blumenthal's second restaurant is a hit with locals and day-trippers, with its great food (braised pork belly and chorizo, roast gilt-head bream and escabeche of red mullet) and a duck's eye view of the Thames from the decked terrace.

Oxo Tower Restaurant Oxo Tower Wharf, Barge House Street, London SE1, tel: 020 7803 3888 Harvey Nichols's popular Waterloo restaurant lays on some truly spectacular views along the Thames and across to St Paul's. Service is sleek, the feel is minimal chic, and the cooking is that nice balance of British and French (with Japanese touches) that manages to be light yet full of flavour at the same time. One of London's more reliable nights out.

River Cafe Thames Wharf, Rainville Road, London W6, tel: 020 7386 4200 Rarely has good Italian peasant food come with such decadent price tags, but if you want deliberately unrefined flavours that will blow you out of the water, this is where to go. Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray pillage Italy and Britain for the best of regional produce, resulting in such dishes as the perfect asparagus risotto, succulent roasted guinea fowl and chargrilled leg of spring lamb.