Restaurant Gordon Ramsay Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Elegant Intimate Classic Restaurant Gordon Ramsay Chelsea $$$$ Royal Hospital Road's three-Michelin-star founding flagship, held continuously since 2001 Same category
Restaurant Story Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Chef Led Elegant Modern Minimalist Restaurant Story Bermondsey $$$$ Tom Sellers' two-Michelin-star tasting room, the chapter's South-Bank fine-dining anchor Same category
Core by Clare Smyth Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Elegant Intimate Modern Core by Clare Smyth Notting Hill $$$$ Clare Smyth's three-Michelin-star Notting Hill flagship, modern British cooking at the peninsula's ceiling Same category
Cycene Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Chef Led Intimate Modern Minimalist Cycene Shoreditch $$$$ A 15-cover Michelin-starred tasting room inside Blue Mountain School, cooking is the only headline Same category
Trivet Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Chef Led Elegant Wine Led Trivet Bermondsey $$$$ Jonny Lake and Isa Bal's two-Michelin-star à la carte room, Fat Duck alumni at neighbourhood register Same category
Trinity Restaurant Restaurant Compare Michelin Two Star Chef Driven Neighbourhood Trinity Clapham $$$$ Adam Byatt's two-Michelin-star Clapham Old Town room, the most considered cooking south-west of the river. Same category
Hélène Darroze at The Connaught Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Elegant Michelin Three Star Intimate Hélène Darroze at The Connaught Mayfair $$$$ Three Michelin stars in the panelled drawing room of Mayfair's most discreet hotel, the defining London fine-dining address. Same category
The Ledbury Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Elegant Intimate Modern The Ledbury Notting Hill $$$$ Brett Graham's Notting Hill three-star, regained and ranked London's best for 2026 Same category
Brat Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Chef Led Wood Fire Intimate Brat Shoreditch $$$$ Tomos Parry's Basque-grill flagship, whole turbot over wood, the room that reset East London cooking Same category
A. Wong Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Michelin Two Star Destination Chef Driven A. Wong Pimlico $$$$ Andrew Wong's two-Michelin-star pan-regional Chinese on Wilton Road, the first Chinese restaurant outside Asia to hold two stars. Same category
Kioku by Endo Restaurant Restaurant Compare Elegant View Destination Kioku by Endo Whitehall $$$$ Endo Kazutoshi's rooftop Japanese inside Raffles at the OWO, the operating Endo room while Endo at the Rotunda rebuilds after the 2025 fire. Same category
Gymkhana Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Michelin Two Star Elegant Iconic Gymkhana Mayfair $$$$ JKS Restaurants' two-Michelin-star Indian on Albemarle Street, Trishna's older Mayfair sister and the standard against which the rest measure themselves. Same category
Otto's Restaurant Restaurant Compare Intimate Historic Chef Driven Otto's Bloomsbury $$$ Bloomsbury French, the silver duck press, the classical menu and one of the very last rooms in Europe still pressing canard à la presse. Same category
Da Terra Restaurant Restaurant Compare Michelin Two Star Chef Driven Destination Da Terra Bethnal Green $$$$ Rafael Cagali's two-Michelin-star tasting room inside the Town Hall Hotel, Bethnal Green's destination kitchen. Same category
Trishna Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Elegant Modern Intimate Trishna Marylebone $$$ Karam Sethi's Marylebone coastal-Indian, one Michelin star held since 2012 Same category
Umu Restaurant Restaurant Compare Michelin One Star Intimate Elegant Umu Mayfair $$$$ Bruton Place Kyoto kaiseki, the discreet hidden door, the multi-course menu and the most considered Japanese dining in W1. Same category
Murano Restaurant Restaurant Compare Elegant Michelin One Star Italian Murano Mayfair $$$$ Angela Hartnett's one-star Italian on Queen Street, the civilised Mayfair lunch the neighbourhood's regulars actually keep. Same category
Wiltons Restaurant Restaurant Compare Iconic Institution Elegant Wiltons St James's $$$$ Since 1742, Jermyn Street oysters, game in season, and a clubland Britain that has stopped existing almost everywhere else. Same category
Hutong Restaurant Restaurant Compare Destination View Elegant Hutong London Bridge $$$$ Northern Chinese on level 33 of The Shard, the view-room and the dish where guests in town for a single weekend take their out-of-town parents. Same category
Sketch (The Lecture Room and Library) Restaurant Editor's Pick Restaurant Compare Michelin Three Star Destination Iconic Sketch (The Lecture Room and Library) Mayfair $$$$ Pierre Gagnaire's three-Michelin-star Mayfair drawing room, the most theatrical fine-dining address in W1. Same category