Lets Discover · Fulham
Best Restaurants, Bars and Things to Do in Fulham, London
Fulham is a residential neighbourhood in west London, sitting along the north bank of the Thames between Chelsea to the east and Hammersmith to the west, with Parsons Green at its southern end and the Fulham Broadway area as its main commercial centre. The neighbourhood has a well-established food and drink scene built around a permanent residential population rather than tourist footfall, with a strong concentration of neighbourhood restaurants, gastropubs and independent cafes spread across Fulham Road, Parsons Green Lane, New King's Road and the surrounding streets. Creators on Lets Discover have recommended dozens of venues across Fulham covering restaurants, bars, coffee shops and cultural landmarks.
What's on in Fulham
Upcoming events at venues in the area
Sat 6 Jun
Dropout Improv
Eventim Apollo
* __Dropout Improv__ | Eventim Apollo | Sat 6 Jun * Improv on one of London's largest stages. The format punishes a slow room. This one never is.
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Sun 7 Jun
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark Live
Eventim Apollo
* __Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark Live__ | Eventim Apollo | Sun 7 Jun * John Williams' score performed live to the full film in Hammersmith. The opening sequence lands differently with an orchestra behind it.
Tickets available
Wed 10 Jun to Fri 12 Jun
Shxtsngigs: Daddy's Home Tour
Eventim Apollo
* __Shxtsngigs: Daddy's Home Tour__ | Eventim Apollo | 10–12 Jun * The UK's most chaotic comedy collective at the Apollo for three nights. Expect shambolic brilliance and a room that's ready for it.
Tickets available
Mon 15 Jun
Sooshi Mango: Home Made World Tour
Eventim Apollo
* __Sooshi Mango: Home Made World Tour__ | Eventim Apollo | 15 Jun * Australian comedy trio Sooshi Mango headlines the Apollo on their world tour. Loud, warm, and unmistakably Italian-Australian.
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Sat 20 Jun
ISMO: Perseverance Tour
Eventim Apollo
* __ISMO: Perseverance Tour__ | Eventim Apollo | Sat 20 Jun * The Finnish comedian's outsider-eye takes on American life, live in Hammersmith. The title does extra work.
Tickets available
Sun 21 Jun
Beverley Knight: Born to Perform
Eventim Apollo
* __Beverley Knight: Born to Perform__ | Eventim Apollo | Sun 21 Jun * A career retrospective with stories from the stage woven in. Thirty years of performing and it still sounds live.
Tickets available
Thu 25 Jun
An Evening With Christopher Awdry: 85 Years of Letting Off Steam
Eventim Apollo
* __An Evening With Christopher Awdry: 85 Years of Letting Off Steam__ | Eventim Apollo | Thu 25 Jun * A celebration of the Thomas the Tank Engine custodian, hosted by Pete Waterman with guests Mike O'Donnell, Clive Spong and Mark Moraghan. Nostalgia handled with genuine warmth — and enough railway history to surprise a grown adult.
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Thu 9 Jul to Sun 12 Jul
Humare Ram
Eventim Apollo
* __Humare Ram__ | Eventim Apollo | 9–12 Jul * Four-night theatrical celebration of the Ramayana at Hammersmith's most storied stage. Epic storytelling, live music, and devotion that fills the room.
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Creator picks in Fulham
Verified recommendations from Lets Discover creators
About Fulham
Fulham's food scene has the confidence that comes from serving a local population that knows what it wants and returns regularly. The neighbourhood does not trade on hype or new openings in the way that parts of east London do, but the quality of its best restaurants and gastropubs is consistently high and has been for years. It is a place where restaurants earn their reputation slowly and keep it by continuing to perform.
The concentration of good eating runs along several axes simultaneously. Fulham Road carries the main weight from Chelsea westward, with restaurants that range from neighbourhood Italian and French to more contemporary openings. Parsons Green and the surrounding streets have their own cluster of venues that serve the local residential community, and New King's Road extends the options further toward Parsons Green station.
Lets Discover creators who cover Fulham tend to live or spend significant time in the area and know which places earn repeat visits. Their picks reflect a neighbourhood where the best restaurants are often not the newest ones.
Fulham Road provides the main dining corridor running through the neighbourhood, with a mix of well-established restaurants, wine bars and gastropubs that have been part of the local landscape for years. Parsons Green Lane and the streets around the green itself contain one of the more pleasant clusters of neighbourhood restaurants and pubs in west London, with options that work equally well for a weekday dinner and a long Sunday lunch. New King's Road, running from Parsons Green westward toward Putney Bridge, has a slightly different character with independent cafes, delis and neighbourhood restaurants that serve the residential streets around it. Wandsworth Bridge Road and the blocks running south toward the river have a quieter and more local feel with some worthwhile venues that are less well-known outside the immediate area.
History and culture in Fulham
Fulham has been inhabited since at least the early medieval period, when the Bishops of London maintained a palace on the Thames at the western edge of what is now the neighbourhood. Fulham Palace, which served as the official residence of the Bishops of London for over thirteen centuries, remains one of the area's most significant historical sites and is open to the public. The neighbourhood developed as a market gardening area in the 17th and 18th centuries, supplying vegetables to London, and traces of this agricultural character persisted into the Victorian period. Craven Cottage, Fulham FC's stadium on the Thames embankment, has been the club's home since 1896 and is one of the oldest football grounds still in use in England. The area around Parsons Green developed in the Victorian era as middle-class housing and has retained a residential character throughout.
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