Every day we pull some stats from a survey and say have a chat about the findings. Today: Our favourite places to dine out.

London’s top 5 favourite restaurant cuisines:

  1. Indian
  2. British
  3. Chinese
  4. Italian
  5. Greek

Across the UK overall, British cuisine is the favourite restaurant choice followed by Indian and Italian.

Top 3 things that would make people in London dine out more often are: A good deal (50 per cent), a new venue opening (25 per cent), a new menu (20 per cent).

More than three quarters of Londoners have a favourite local restaurant (higher than UK average of 72 per cent).

Londoners dine out "several times a week", higher than the UK average.

1 in 5 people in the UK (19 per cent) dine out a few times a month, but more Londoners (23 per cent) do so, 1 in 4 (25 per cent) Londoners like to dine out in their local area or town once a month.

Londoners are prepared to spend longer getting to a restaurant – 64 per cent would travel more than 20 minutes.

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Source: Based on survey by Censuswide for Travelzoo

What do you think? Do you have a favourite cuisine when you’re dining out or do you like to keep it varied? What’s your favourite restaurant in south-east London and north Kent? What influences your decision about where to eat out? Post a comment below, or on Twitter using #nsstatchat or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/newsshopper