Here are some of London's best restaurants with outdoor pavement areas....

Moro
Moro, 34-36 Exmouth Market, EC1 (020 7833 8336, moro.co.uk)
The food at Moro is splendid but the dining room is a fairly clattery place and doesn't lend itself to important chit-chat. The outdoor tables on Exmouth Market, however, have less background noise, the benefit of any breeze and the food tastes just as good.

La Poule au Pot
231 Ebury Street, SW1 (020 7730 7763)
A French restaurant that is awesomely French. Snails, steak, frites, the eponymous chicken in a pot and rugged house wine. If you're lucky enough to get one of the pavement tables you can shut your eyes and imagine that you are in La Belle France.

The Southern Terrace
Westfield London Shopping Centre, Ariel Way, W12
(020 3371 2300, westfield.com)
The Southern Terrace is an astonishingly busy stretch of pavement, it's like a Who's Who of middle-market restaurants. A dozen or more choices. Burgers, that'll be Gourmet Burger Kitchen; Mexican — Wahaca; Mediterranean treats — Del' Aziz; steak — The Meat and Wine Co; Malaysian food — Jom Makan. The list goes on and on.

Mennula
10 Charlotte Street, W1 (020 7636 2833, mennula.com)
Go back 30 years and Charlotte Street was one of the key destinations for any lover of pavement tables. Mennula maintains that tradition and has a couple of highly prized outdoor tables. The menu offers seasonally driven regional Italian dishes.

Paternoster Chop House
5 Paternoster Row, EC4 (020 7029 9400, danddlondon.com)
There's plenty of room for the tables outside this City favourite. They concentrate on British seasonal ingredients — rare-breed meats, seasonal fruit and veg plus fish from day boats and hand-dived shellfish. Move on to the best of British cheeses.