Restaurant in London

Eighteenth-century Lexington Street townhouse with a handwritten daily menu, the last romantic room in old Soho

Jacob Kenedy's region-by-region Italian counter on Archer Street, every dish labelled by province, eighteen years deep

Notting Hill's Michelin-starred neighbourhood brasserie, wood-fired grill, retained star 2026

Claude and Lucy Bosi's Parisian-brasserie second site, the Marylebone room that opened where Daylesford Blandford Street used to sit

The Dirik family ocakbaşı since 1994, the canonical Turkish address the audience takes London-Turks to

Nose-to-tail Italian on Curtain Road, house-cured salumi and wood-fired offal in Shoreditch

Sam and Sam Clark's Exmouth Market Moorish room, the 1997 landmark that taught London Spanish-and-North-African cooking.

Jeremy Lee's neon-signed Dean Street dining room, the Soho institution turning one hundred in 2026

Hauser & Wirth's reimagined Mayfair pub, Sunday roast under a Phyllida Barlow ceiling

London's longest-standing Michelin-starred pub, Fulham backstreets, game and wild food

Piccadilly's grand café, the Viennese-Parisian brasserie that runs from breakfast to supper

Karam Sethi's Marylebone coastal-Indian, one Michelin star held since 2012

P. Franco's successor at 107 Lower Clapton, a 25-cover wine shop with a hot plate at the back, chef residencies kept

A 40-cover kitchen-and-natural-wine warehouse under the Bermondsey arches, chef Steve Williams

Keith McNally's Russell Street brasserie, the SoHo Manhattan original transposed to Covent Garden, twelve years in.

Sam and Eddie Hart's original walk-in tapas counter, relocated, the Spanish bar London learned the format from

Ed Wilson's Columbia Road natural-wine bistro, the East End's most consistent neighbourhood kitchen

Adriana Cavita's Marylebone Mexican, generous, regional, unfussy

Henrietta Street's modern British room from the Kitty Fisher's team, clubby, candle-lit, opera-night reliable.

Seymour Place's Basque pintxos counter, the txuleta and the txakoli on the same Marylebone bar

St Martin's Court's 1890s seafood institution, Theatreland's pre-curtain Dover sole

Ravinder Bhogal's no-borders Marylebone room, Indian, East African and South-East Asian cooking, ten years in

Langton Street's Tuscan trattoria since 1975, Chelsea's Italian family room, fourth decade

The larger Greek Street sister, 2020 in the former Gay Hussar room, with a proper kitchen

Paddington Street modern Greek, sister to Athens' two-star Funky Gourmet and the most considered Greek cooking in W1.

Bloomsbury French, the silver duck press, the classical menu and one of the very last rooms in Europe still pressing canard à la presse.

London's oldest restaurant, Maiden Lane since 1798, four families across ten reigns, and the game-and-claret Britain that has not changed.

The Holland Park-edge neighbourhood restaurant the W11 regulars send each other to

David Carter's wood-and-oak smokehouse, the brisket Sunday lunch the chapter actually returns to

Northern Thai with chilli, herbs and proper aggression, Spitalfields

Fergus Henderson's nose-to-tail manifesto since 1994, the white-walled Smithfield room that wrote modern British cooking.

Endo Kazutoshi's Notting Hill casual, sushi without the omakase ceremony

Tom Conran's 1995 gastropub, Guinness, oysters and the upstairs dining room that started the Notting Hill genre

A 1708 Chelsea pub on a quiet Lawrence Street corner, ranked among the UK's Top 50 Gastropubs

Mayfair mews chophouse since 1952, beef Wellington and steak-and-kidney pie

Cubitt House's Pimlico Road gastropub-with-rooms, wood-fired pizzas, four upstairs bedrooms, the SW1 corner pub the audience trusts.

The Gladwin Brothers' Old Church Street pub, Sussex-vineyard wines and a tight British seasonal menu

Farringdon Road's Grade II 1869 working-class chop house, Shaun Searley's revival of the listed-bench institution.

The glass-roofed Manchester Square courtyard inside the Wallace Collection, Marylebone's quietest daytime room

Britain's oldest Indian restaurant, open on Regent Street since 1926 and now in its hundredth year.

Lowndes Street's Italian institution since 1995, the Belgravia trattoria that taught London regional pasta