r/london is a subreddit with 1.6M members. The most common kinds of discussions are pain & anger and solution requests, and the community frequently discusses london, looking for a, worst, struggling, and looking, and they frequently recommend/review steak restaurant, middle eastern restaurants, and winter coats.
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Popular Themes in r/london
#1
Pain & Anger
: "Bag stolen in Notting Hill and I’m distraught"
11 posts
#2
Solution Requests
: "How eight beavers solved a Tube flooding problem engineers have been trying to fix for years"
4 posts
#3
Advice Requests
: "Started a job where I'm always 'in the field' and there's no office or base I return to each day. Absolutely sick of Greggs/Costa/Maccers/Tesco etc for lunch. What other food spots are good and ideally not too expensive?"
4 posts
Popular Topics in r/london
#1
London
: "London looking like it's in the foothills of a vast mountain range (towards Peckham)."
336 posts
#2
Looking For A
39 posts
#3
Worst
25 posts
#4
Struggling
19 posts
#5
Looking
16 posts
#6
In
16 posts
#7
Events
: "London bus museum heritage days"
11 posts
#8
Looking For
10 posts
#9
Hate
8 posts
#10
For
8 posts
Products Discussed in r/london
Steak Restaurant
54 reviews
#1
Blacklock
4.4★ from 5 reviews
#2
Hawksmoor
4.8★ from 4 reviews
#3
Heliot Steakhouse
4.0★ from 2 reviews
Middle Eastern Restaurants
50 reviews
#1
Berenjak
3.5★ from 4 reviews
#2
Maroush
4.5★ from 4 reviews
#3
Beit Zaytoon
3.7★ from 3 reviews
Winter Coats
49 reviews
#1
Uniqlo
4.3★ from 14 reviews
#2
Canada Goose
2.8★ from 5 reviews
#3
North Face
4.3★ from 3 reviews
Flair Used in r/london
#1
image
: "Spotted in Richmond"
34 posts
#2
Image
: "London looking like it's in the foothills of a vast mountain range (towards Peckham)."
19 posts
#3
Culture
: "Islington today"
9 posts
#4
News
: "23 people paid deposits on the same London flat - BBC investigation published today"
8 posts
#5
Local London
: "Sadiq Khan takes swipe at Soho nightlife nimbys: 'It's like living in South Kensington and complaining about museums'"
5 posts
#6
Crime
: "Phone thefts halve in central London as Apple joins police crackdown to make stolen handsets 'unusuable bricks'"
5 posts
#7
Transport
: "Where can you find the most consecutive bus route numbers at one bus stop?"
5 posts
#8
Question
: "Started a job where I'm always 'in the field' and there's no office or base I return to each day. Absolutely sick of Greggs/Costa/Maccers/Tesco etc for lunch. What other food spots are good and ideally not too expensive?"
5 posts
#9
Observation
: "Spotted in one of the 'tacky' souvenir shops on Oxford Street, they even created some AI postcards about their own shop"
4 posts
#10
Serious replies only
: "Bag stolen in Notting Hill and I’m distraught"
4 posts
Member Growth in r/london
Yearly
+137k members(9.7%)
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Last updated: June 17, 2026