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The new Roney guide to British hotels and restaurants devotes a whole section to listing London hotels with double room that cost between $50 and $70 a night. The guide also lists 113 excellent restaurants where an evening meal may be had for under $35 for two people, Ronay's 800-page guide, the best-known hotel and restaurant guide in Britain, gives price, ratings, and description of hundreds of other hotels and restaurants in England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, and the Channel Isles. There are only two three-star restaurants this year, neither of which are in London. Seventeen restaurants received two stars and 57 received one, most of them also outside London. In London, top place goes to the spectacularly renewed Ritz Hotel, followed by the Berkeley, Claridge's, Connaught, Inn on the Park, and Dorchester. The guide is available in many bookstores in the US and is distributed by Holt, Rinehart & Winston, publisher, 383 Madison Avenue, New York. 52900100027312 NOVEMBER 15, 1981