Really, stay colse to the Tube or Undergound. Buy a pass get all over town. Fast and Cheap!
No Mom and Pops, they are called Pubs, and there are the many Pubs. Most have food and reasonable.
Take The Red Bus Tour to see and get an Idea where your berings are.
You can walk on most things or take The Tube to get to quick. Very well coded for Dummies!
Set out an agenda, and go like hell, there is so much to see and fun.
Take something to drink for when you get back to room and kick back!!! You will need it.
Oh, you can take a Ferry up The Thames to Greenwich and see the Clock where time is set in all of the world along with The Cutty Sark which is very near! Oh, a Whisky Named after it!
It is all History and a lot of it!
Tour and all of the Armour, at the Tower of London Henry The 8th, Wax Museum, British Museum, Buckingham, go to Windsor, it is Awesome.
God, I wish I was going with you!