Greek restaurants in Marylebone are about to have their busiest week of the autumn. From Wednesday 14 to Sunday 18 October the art world moves into Regent’s Park for Frieze London and Frieze Masters, a second fair opens inside a Georgian church on Marylebone Road, the Hellenic Centre on Paddington Street hosts two free breakfast talks, and an artist from Athens has one of the most talked about commissions of the whole fair. If you want good Greek food between galleries, this is the week to walk Marylebone properly.
Londonist’s guide to things to do in London this weekend put the Frieze Sculpture trail and the Fair Play Art Fair near the top of its list. We took those two, added the Greek side of Frieze week that the big sites leave out, and matched every stop with a Greek List member a few minutes away on foot.
Everyone leaving the fairs pours south into Marylebone, and two of the best Greek restaurants in Marylebone, Kima and Opso, sit on Paddington Street, the same short street as the Hellenic Centre, about ten minutes on foot from the York Gate entrance to the park. Add Chill House Coffee in Mayfair for the design fair on Berkeley Square and you have a complete Greek route for the week.
Two tents, two fairs. Frieze London shows contemporary galleries from around the world and Frieze Masters covers everything older, from antiquities to twentieth century painting, with a talks programme that includes Es Devlin and Grayson Perry. Both run from 14 to 18 October in Regent’s Park.
The Greek reason to go is Theo Triantafyllidis. The Athens based artist won the 2026 Frieze London Artist Award and is showing Feral Metaverse (Spider), a large climbable spider that doubles as the entrance to his multiplayer game, where visitors cooperate on screen to build structures that spill into the fair itself. Details on our Theo Triantafyllidis at Frieze London page.
Getting there: Regent’s Park or Baker Street tube, then follow the signs across the park. Tickets and times on frieze.com.
If the fair tickets are too much, the sculpture trail is the free version and the more relaxed one. Eleven works by international artists stand across the English Gardens in the south east corner of the park, curated for the fourth year by Fatoş Üstek, with names including Conrad Shawcross, Ivana Bašić and Ramesh Mario Nithiyendran. It stays until 1 November, no booking, no fence, and in mid October the plane trees behind the works are turning gold. Weekday mornings are quiet, Saturdays bring the Frieze crowd and the people watching.
Getting there: Enter from Park Square East or Chester Road. Great Portland Street and Regent’s Park tubes are the closest.
Greek stop nearby: Opso on Paddington Street opens at 10am on Saturdays and Sundays, so you can have a Greek brunch first and be in the park fifteen minutes later.
The second fair of the week fills One Marylebone, the former Holy Trinity church on the corner of Marylebone Road and Great Portland Street. Fair Play is an independent fair where you buy directly from about seventy artists rather than from galleries, with live music, performance and a bar running through the building. It comes from the founder of The Other Art Fair, so prices start far below anything in the Frieze tents. Entry is from £24, Thursday 15 to Sunday 18 October. For anyone furnishing a London flat this is the realistic fair: talk to the painter, agree a price, carry it home on the Jubilee line.
Getting there: 1 Marylebone Road, NW1 4AQ, next to Great Portland Street station.
Greek stop nearby: Kima on Paddington Street is a twelve minute walk west along Marylebone Road and up Marylebone High Street. Book for Friday or Saturday, because Frieze week fills the Greek restaurants in Marylebone fast.
This is the part the London listings sites never mention. The Hellenic Centre at 16 to 18 Paddington Street has two free morning events in Frieze week. On Thursday 15 October breakfast is served from 9.30 before a talk on the Greek Pop artist Giorgos Ioannou, with former Tate Britain curator Andrew Wilson, the artist’s son Dimitris Ioannou and Kostas Stasinopoulos of KYKLOS, followed by a walk through the exhibition A Different Kind of Pop. On Friday 16 October, same time, collector and National Gallery of Greece trustee Irene Panagopoulos talks about collecting around the exhibition Revisiting: Fernweh, or Nostalgia for Unknown Lands. Both need booking and both finish by 11, leaving the whole day for the park. Links on our pages for the Giorgos Ioannou breakfast talk and Irene Panagopoulos in conversation.
Getting there: Baker Street tube, five minutes east along Marylebone Road and right into Paddington Street, next to Paddington Street Gardens.
Frieze week spills south into Mayfair, where PAD London fills a pavilion on Berkeley Square with twentieth century and contemporary design, decorative art and high jewellery. Among the exhibitors is Nikos Koulis, the Athens jewellery house known for bold geometric pieces and one of the few Greek names that PAD collectors know without an introduction. Open 11am to 7pm until Sunday 18 October (6pm on the Sunday), adult tickets £30, students £15. Even without buying, Berkeley Square in October is one of the nicest places in central London to sit for twenty minutes.
Getting there: Green Park or Bond Street tube, about five minutes. Berkeley Square, W1J 6EN.
Greek stop nearby: Chill House Coffee at 10 Shepherd Street, Mayfair, is a Greek coffee house seven minutes south of the square through Shepherd Market, open from 7am on weekdays for a freddo before the fair.
The Avenue Gardens and the Broad Walk on the east side of Regent’s Park are at their best in the second half of October, so build in half an hour of walking between the fairs, and Queen Mary’s Gardens in the Inner Circle usually still has late roses. On Sunday morning the Marylebone farmers’ market runs in the Cramer Street car park behind the High Street. For the southern end of the same walk, our guide to Greek restaurants near Oxford Street picks up where this one stops, and the Greek restaurants in Marylebone above take bookings through their Greek List pages.
Frieze week is also one of the fullest weeks of the year for Greek events in London. The next ten days from the Greek List events calendar, the most complete list of Greek events in the UK:
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